when the earth does shake
in my fears i could quake
but I have a choice i can make

for Your love made a higher way
when i am afraid
my fears will not o'ertake me

for You are there beside me, my God
when darkness surrounds me, You are God
oh when I am afraid, i know hope remains
for You,
You are there beside me

poor and needy i search for water
to quench this thirsty heart
but satisfied only one way

when you love rains over my day
oh my strength comes from the Lord
who will never forsake

for You are there beside me, my God
when darkness surrounds me, You are God
oh when I am afraid, i know hope remains
for You,
You are there beside me

you are there
you are there
beside me



© 2012

Wondrous God
Adonai
come claim me
Your lost design, design
Christ's pure blood
was shed for me
the sign of Your love
I see

Capture me
I want to be free
I want to be free
Open my heart fill me
In Your name the dead are raised
Lord keep this dead heart beating


© 2012

i have built my life
on empty promises
the sand where i stand
has washed away

above the flood where i drown
You sit upon your throne
but You are not out of reach
with You i'll overcome


oh the peace and love,
the fullness of God
nothing can compare
my faith is built on His promises
i know He will not fail
i know He will not fail



© 2013

No latte
no "three men walked into a bar ..."
no sun salutation
can give me that reinvigorating boost

no melody
(and for that matter no harmony)
no pedicure
no crisp fall walk
can ease my anxious state

I am unsettled, trying to find a surface to settle on
so I settle down to the lowest parts of Maslow's mountain
searching for comfort in edible bites and physical bits,
deep in the valley where I should not be

"How  ya  doin'?"
"OhI'mgood!"

Ain't got time for the real answer
Ain't got time
Ain't got time
  cause I won't give it to myself
     I was never good at prioritizing

Cause if I knew my priorites
I would remember what a priority it is
to bend to my knees
sink into the ground
and reverently gaze UP

I have not imagined the answers and peace I have recieved
You have to open your mind to see His work
He is visible
   in earth and sky
Sometimes He has to remind me
but when He does ...
well, I can enjoy the melodies
and lattes
and jokes again

P.W.C.

peach cobbler, that's what you remind of
the sweet, southern staple that everyone loves

but when the pom-poms fell from your hands
you told the girls in the van on the way to fun mountain
"I can't do those stunts anymore."

I still laugh at myself for my inappropriate and abrupt,  
"WHAT!?!?"
but your collected calmness collected me
until i saw in the back of your eyes the collected fear
and realized the daunting fact,
that even though you were nearly 9 months my younger
in 9 months
you were going to have to be years older than me

we were raised to plan
but planning doesn't determine how life occurs
cause you never really plan to fall down
i know there were those who showed you love
but i'm sure being named "pastor's daughter" and labeled "cliche"
didn't do you any favors in the judgement days
and i'm sorry i only made you a dress to hide the bump
when you deserved a cape
to soar over that injustice
that no one has the right to serve

what its like to inhabit a body that is growing beauty
i don't know, but watching you
i have seen it can be ... a change
which, i'm sure, that doesn't even remotely explain ... does it?
no it's ... a Life Alteration of Volcanic Proportions
cause I'm sure, at times, you feel as if standing in the wake of an explosion
and sometimes the earth spews fiery filth at you

but i believe mothers are fire proof
cause they know they have beauty that grew inside
and when you look at that doe eyed, preschooler son
remember that love strengthens you
heaven is powerful
and you are both beautiful

Your fingers
Your prints
imprint them on me
  
press Your prints
so hard into mine
that my prints
become unidentifiable
  
without Your prints on me
i have only my identity
me, nothing, nameless
number B47 in the waiting line
  
but with You
i can forge a new ID
Your prints will be
my prints, You will be my Prince
  
i look at my prints;
small circular lines
filled with memories and dirt
but Your's...
  
Your's are so clean
prints, patterns, codes,
spelling out words,
creating verses,
all saying how You are perfect
  
so imprint Your prints on me
because without You
these fingers
  
these prints
  
could never bring peace

camel  
    
C-A-M-E-L  
    
...  
    
    
... (?)  
    
    
...  
    
    
Why?  
    
I don't know, cause they're cool ! . ?  
    
    
    
his favorite animal is a camel  
and he doesn't know why  
but i do  
    
i think, as a kid, he read about it
in an encyclopedia
And decided, "that's how I want to live my life"
    
the humps on camel's backs that can store water  
and they can go days, weeks, months,
I even heard years  
without replenishing  
crossing dry, barren deserts  
carrying cargo, people  
    
i didn't know camels wore graphic t-shirts,  
crocs and cargo shorts  
but he is a camel  
tall and lanky    
takes in tons and never gains a pound  
(i hate camels)  
    
a camel exists in the Arabian world  
is in love with a Middle-Eastern girl  
and they even have a miracle of that descent  
    
He IS A Camel!  
but the humps on his back  
are hope and inspiration    
and with just a little in the tank  
he will cross a world of deserts    
and bring you back a treasure chest full of dreams  
    
but he enjoys simplicity ...  
Sometimes,
then sometimes not at all  
he takes things way overboard    
and carries far to much cargo  
but he crosses the desert anyway  
    
i didn't know camels were such good teachers  
    
didn't know they made such good friends