the king is right infront of us

The children outside all are laughing under perfect skies
The shapes and patterns in this season make me feel alive
I wanna shout it from the roof top and tell the world
That,
“I was blind but now I see what’s right in front of me!”

It’s a beautiful world I see, everything looks differently
It’s a beautiful world I see, these moments are changing me
When I look at the sky I see the reason why I know,
When I look out from the window,
The moon and stars shine all their lights down from the heavens
I choir of angels strike a chord and lift their voices
And then we sing out,
“I’ve been lost but now I’ve found what’s right in front of me.”

-tim myers
'its a beautiful world'

what i got from it:

Love me faster than the devil
Run me straight into the ground
Drowning deep inside your water
Drowning deep inside your sound

"But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
whose confidence is in him.
He will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit."

-jeremiah 17:7-8

we weep for a birds cry but not for a fish's blood.
blessed are those with a voice

-Kazunori Itō

absence makes the heart grow fonder

winter had past and as summer had begun,
she left.

yet, if days were weeks, and weeks were months,
it would seem the day she left was not summer's rebirth
but the return of winter.

my heart chilled after our parting
as time passed i told myself
i was incapable of longing

yet the winter months came and passed
and as the white witch's kiss thawed
so did my heart

and like years of past
after the ice had melted
and the air had warmed
nature took her breath,
and waited for the buds to grow

yet my heart chose otherwise,
it took no breath, did not hesitate
for now it is summer in my heart
love has found me and bloomed.
winter has left, and an eternal summer begun.

absence makes the heart grow fonder

love with the love they hide.
dream with the dream the cast aside.
oh the truth will form and fall apart again.
it's all right love, you're in good hands.

-sarah slean

i wouldnt be here if i didnt like you
i dont want to lose the friend that i have in you
trying to make this, easy as it could be
hoping that you'll see, so you dont lose the friend in me

-aselin debison

ears and mouth

ive tried to hear it, really i have.
ive waited and been patient
to hear the kings voice.
but nothing has come

am i too distracted?
have i not studied his word?

questions abound in the silence
keeping faith and trust,
i wait to hear something, anything

morality

justification should not be your guide
earthly morality should not be your rational
your life is not your own

striving to live for the king's will
following his actions
is what the goal really is

while acknowledging personality
and individual nature,
we must still examine our actions
under the light of the king

so brothers and sisters
we need to orient or lives to him
if an action is not in his will
abolish it, for it means nothing

pursue only what the king wants
for we are his children

the focus

the king sits on his throne
and i at his feet
i look to his eyes
yet deep he sleeps

questions i have
he gives no answer
requests that i give
he does not fill

i tug on his robe
he does not stir
i sit, and think
listening for his voice

silence but a few snores
the quieter i get
the louder the noise
until i realize

the king does not slumber
it is i.

a change must come

last week i was shared one of the most powerful messages to hit me yet..

when the king has returned
and the end has come
when i stand before my master
at the gates to his home

i will not stand alone
but with the world beside me
all friends and family
no-one will be forgotten

then the book will be opened
and my name will be read
but the friend to each side
their name may not be said

as i step through the gate
into an eternal life with my king
the friends who i have loved
and kept by my side
will ask me one last thing
before i never see them again

"you knew about all of this
the glory that i see now
and you never once told me?
today i am turned away
from eternal paradise
and you had the key all these years?"

my heart will shatter
and i will realize,
the love i have for these people
will mean nothing because
i stood still

from this day on
i will never stand still
my heart will begin to burn
i will ask my king
for all strength he can give me
to share his message

a change is coming brothers and sisters

how do I know?

my heart has settled on something,
is it love or the sense of safety?

when will those three words
finally come to the tip of my tongue?

knowing my body wants to say it
but my heart is hesitant,

I wait.

should i feel more?

"what we have between us means alot to me...
just incase you dont think i care"

the words that I thought I was longing for were said
just a sign that they cared was all I wanted,

but how come I don't feel more?

the sting of love

when did my heart become so insecure?

things that i may have never seen
suddenly became impossible to ignore

i may have only seen it as friendship before
but now when they talk, my heart becomes jealous

i've been reassured time and time
and i know that friendship is all it is

but when i hear that laughter
-my favourite sound in the world
and see the smiles they exchange

all i feel is the sting of love

romance and justice

if i can't see where my life is going
how can i expect to take someone along with me

longing to spend my life with someone i love
to discover ourselves, each other, and the world
i have been blinded by romance

is it fair to drag someone with me
on a path where i can see no further than my own hand?

now justice has cut my blindfold
i don't want an insecure life for the one i love,
so for now my heart must be empty

the first of many

live, laugh and love;
the motto of an ever-changing nineteen year old prince
here i am, an open book for you to read and hopefully,

fall in love with