A Sailor's Journey

TEARS

2-17-2013

There are tears in my battered heart,

There are tears in my torn soul,

There are tears in my shredded spirit

The pressure builds in my battered heart

The flow increases from the tear in my soul

The flow from my spirit becomes a veritable flood of tears

All these tears, my guilt over the difficulties

Yes the difficulties that my family has had to endure

And all because of my emotional pain which had broken me down

There are also many other things that I hold myself responsible for

There is the anger, the rage, that's right nearly uncontrollable

Nearly is the key word, every time I made a choice to sin with anger and rage

There is only one place for all of those tears to go

My eyes well up, I begin to cry, then I begin to sob,

As I fall to my knees, I cry out for The Lord and He is there!

Marked by God

5-28-2013

I am marked by God, all of those who are the children of God are as well

I am marked by the faith in Jesus the Son who died on the cross

And finally I am marked by my faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ

Would you be, could you be, open to receiving faith in Jesus?

This opens up a whole new realm of knowledge, love, and peace

The Holy Spirit will indwell you, then you can have communication with God, on your terms

I have followed Jesus and obeyed Him through the waters of baptism

This "believer's baptism," buried with Him, then raised with Him in newness of life

This act of obedience has marked me not only as a child of God, but as God's servant on earth

I have seen only a few of the horrors of war

Those horrors have left a horrible scar on my soul and spirit

At least the scar is covering most of the wound

I would not change anything, the pain I endure allows the Lord to use me

My goal is for God to be able to use me to help bring joy to broken spirits

Will you join me in daily fervent prayer for the forgotten ones?

I am marked by God, and I shall work for Him

The resurrection cometh, may we all be found laboring to bring in the harvest!

Ask me How

7-17-2013

When we do things for others who are in distress

Are we truly doing just for them, or has their need caused distress within us?

A distress that we just want to go away at any cost

I do not know what to call this process

It truly does not matter what we call it, it sometimes exists

The only one who understands all this is God

God, who has the ability to see into the hearts and minds of men

The most secret and private places within us, He knows

Yet the Father loves us anyways, even when we were His enemies

Beloved enemies, a thought that is so foreign to man

And yet God is love, through and through, there is no hate

There is a certain amount of sadness when we deny Him, but no anger

He, the Lord God Almighty, sent His son to us even when

He knew that His beloved enemies would nail His son,

To the Cross of Calvary, and the Son of God would die

But glory of glories, the Son of God arose

He arose from death and the grave

You don’t need to be beloved enemies any more

You can be one of God’s beloved children, ask me how!