Romance Language

Such a great read.

"Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as he loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life."

On Wings of Love, Redeeming Love...

Filled

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. Helen Keller

The world is not short of resource. The only reason we have shortage, is because we have hoarding and waste. Therefore we hold the solution. Rather than Connect the dots, we’d like to create our own, or sit upon someone else's. War is not the answer and neither is complacency, so instead of blowing up our efforts, our manpower and our money, when will we finally be able to use training facilities to train people on the streets and put them to work, and devote portions of our intelligence agencies to working with developing nations governments.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all of the American people and that I have been given their trust. More importantly however than material gains will be the moral and spiritual value. We must be the great arsenal of democracy. FDR

• More than 1 billion people around the world live on less than $1 a day.
• We are encouraging voters to contact their elected officials and the headquarters of candidates running for office to ask what action they will take to help fight global AIDS and extreme poverty and save lives in the world's poorest countries.
• Together, we're taking a first step toward making fighting global poverty a growing priority for American voters, and as we begin to look toward the 2008 Presidential elections, it's a first effort in a long-term strategy to make the over 1 billion people who live on less than $1 a day part of the election conversation.
• Africa has been hit harder by the HIV/AIDS virus than any other region of the world. Last year alone, more than 2 million Africans died from AIDS and another 24 million are infected with the HIV virus, approximately 2 million of whom are children.
• Over one billion people do not have access to clean water. Every 15 seconds, a child dies from a disease associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
• Africa is home to 80% of the world's 15 million HIV/AIDS orphans.
• ONE is an effort to rally citizens - ONE by ONE - to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. ONE is a coalition of over 2.4 million people and 100 of the nation's leading relief, humanitarian and advocacy organizations.
  

On Election Day, like every other day, there will be over 1 billion people around the world living on less than $1 a day. But unlike every other day, my vote can set in motion something that will change that.

As a voter and one of the 2.4 million members of ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History, I have been working to make the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty a part of the election conversation. For the first time in history we have the resources and know-how to end extreme poverty. All we need now is the political will to make it happen and that means voting and holding our leaders accountable. I encourage my fellow voters to contact our candidates and ask them what actions they'll take to help fight global AIDS and extreme poverty.

Beyond the attack ads and partisan sparring filling the airways are the life and death decisions that our newly elected leaders will make on our behalf. Fighting global AIDS and extreme poverty is something we can reach across party lines to do together, and it can make a better, safer world for us all.

Hault the waste of energy. Turn Jealousy to Contentment. Turn Anger to Love. Turn Competition to Peace. Remove the old self. Grace is not opposed to effort, as it is to merit. May I fill the vacancy with the things of that world for I want to be overflowing in the company of those I love; in a short time, we shall arrive.

WeakEnds

'He jests at scars that never felt a wound,' (Romeo)

Persecution and trial - the testing agents of where we stand. God never gives us more than we can handle, just enough to see who we really are. His truth is ours for keeps.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27. King of glory, here be found.

'you got to keep on keepin' on,' observes joe dirt

Burn baby, Burn

There's something in this world that light's everyone's fire.






In romance, as in spirituality, motives are selfless, driven from an authentic love for the other person. Seems we're designed to burn with passion, thus it would be most tragic for a person to know everything about God, but not know God... to know all the rules of spiritual marriage, and never walk the aisle.

There are some things which happen, that we never get over; once we've tasted we know; He is enough. I've been told that, if life in Christ is boring, look to find yourself again in Christ and never quit expecting enormous, miraculous, awesome things from God. Live it, and be blown away.

Soul-stilling in John 12.20, something sparks the soul, a passion and an urgency to see Jesus... His touch of salt will season. Jesus rubbed against the people, He did not preach at them. The people observed the confidence and understood... Peter and John had been with Jesus. Life speaks into life.

When God works within us, we reach even deeper to understand our brokenness and be receptive। As He does the work we find ourselves in bankruptcy, yet proximity is the saving grace, breathing a fire we can touch.

Drawing a Blank

The world is a book an those who do not travel only see one page. Aristotle

i write for the same reasons i travel... to reveal, to unwind, to connect...

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Mark Twain

The Republic of Heaven

He will return when every nation has heard. 6,900 people groups remain, and then we shall exchange Heaven for a place, and eternity for time.

Unfinished Business

I love lists and letters!

Excess baggage sits heavily upon its owner, weighs us all down, and is paid for by all. I don’t want to have unfinished business, yet I sure do linger sooner than I thank people. Indebted, I can’t repay them, but rather must in turn pay someone else instead. As Gerardo says, pay it forward.

To, and write

One day she left all the words scattered around the floor
In disheveled stacks around the coffee mugs
So that she might step out to get some air.
It was night. The streets were charged.
You had to look both ways.
She walked, she looked,
Walked some more,
So far that she
Lost her way.

By the time she did make her way home to the words,
She had lost track of their meanings: she knew
What each meant in isolation, alone, but
Not what she could make them say
When she would line them up
In arrangements no one had
Ever before considered.
This was her gift,
But forgotten.

She looked around the room for a long time, like
Amnesia. She recognized her many things, the
Couch, the table, photographs aligned along
Window frames, overcrowded bookshelves,
But the stacks of words, seemingly
Random all around the floor,
Making it hard to walk to
The bathroom: these
Confused her.

Much time passed. Weeks, months, even more.
She hadn't known what to do with the stacks,
All those words, though she knew not to
Throw them away. She moved them
Into corners and along one wall.
She learned to live her life
Around them, giving
Them their space,
Looking away.

One morning with time on her hands she gazed
Across the room at her stacks and two
Words, four stacks apart, combined
Themselves as though to speak.
The first word, to, she knew
Even upside down. The
Second faced her,
Write. Memory,
Command.

By that evening she had pulled out all her words
And begun rearranging them, barely aware
That the day had passed. The lines she
Made out of words so occupied her
That when finally she knew she
Needed to step out for air,
She set two cards just
Inside the door,
To, and write.

TIM KELLER

All this untapped energy - makes me feel so free

Finally, I was able to sneak over to BookPeople and purchase the entire collection of Sabrina Ward Harrison masterpieces. Having these to peruse was longer awaited than I ever knew; like one who watched our childhood and recalls our history better than we can, you tapped me into a deep, familiar yet forgotten space in my soul. Thanks SAB.




The universal power of art, the sounds and images that bring us to life.



I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got. SAB

What we don't let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. Why do I feel this way? SAB

I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. Sometimes it is very lonely. But I know the lonely times teach me the most. I must let go in order to let anything in. No one can love me, for me. SAB

The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something. SAB

Ode to Songwriting and the classic theme of exploration.

Essence of Love

the people i find myself growing closest to are the very ones i hope to spend eternity with. What a blessing to be so nurtured, truly surrounded by angels.

At this time I’m most alive, experiencing things I cannot describe... When two hearts race, both win. I arrived here to rediscover and explore the things I love, now realizing my heart has been awakened and revealed much, pursued by a man who ran away with my heart. I pray he keeps running. My parachute. My shooting star.

The greatest gift, I now too have learned, is to truly love and be loved in return.

Sharing so much, and often when neither mouth is speaking. I treasure how much bigger our relationship is than one another, as if we’re each reaching high above our heads to elevate its existence; we’re living in a whole other dimension.

PRAY FOR PEACE

Thou ART

There is no art where there is no style, and there is no style where there is no harmony, and harmony comes from the individual.
- Oscar Wilde

no coincidences, just GODincidences

what's the greatest feeling you ever had?

surprises love admiration and talents deployed would take the cover of my book, so filled with chatting, crying, dreaming and laughing alongside family friends strangers and sweet solitude. so many blantant reminders and messages from God highlighting every blessed path.