The most quintessential thing in life
Is to live
We put up so many block
So many barriers
That keep us from
Truly living
We need to be able
To understand
Life is a precious gift
We shouldn't take our lives for granted
We should be living our lives
without fear
Without barriers
Learning to live and to learn
Along the way

Dwelling here
Can be hard
Life has a way
Of sneaking up on you
When you least expect it
But every once in a while
A little joy comes
To make it all worth while

The final hour
Of the final day
Is never too far away
Our lives are fragile
We need to be more aware
Of the amazing miracle
That is life itself
If we were more reverent to life
And the beautiful wonderful
World that we lived in
We couldn't even imagine
Harming each other
Or harming another thing
We would understand
And comprehend
That every life is precious
Every life is fragile
And yet life is strong
Even in its fragility
Just when you think
You have got a hold on it
Life has a way of surprising you

There are
A lot of people
Who are seeing
The light
Even as crazy
As the world may seem
People are waking up
The world is waking up
To a new truth
A new way of knowing
A new way of understanding
Connecting with God and spirit
Connecting with our mother
And all of her children
Connecting with each other
And understanding
We are all one and the same
Learning to love each other
Responding with love
And compassion
The world is waking up
She is like a mighty dragon
Waking from her slumber
When she finally awakens
Will you be ready?

Wading in the water
We all want to be cleaned
Our hearts want to be whole
Wade in the water for a little while
And let it wash you clean
Wade in the water for a little while
And let all the pain
The stress
The things
In your past
You would rather forget

There is life
There is love
There is beauty
Every where
Life is beautiful
We all carry life
Inside of every
Single one of us
We all have that
Beautiful life
That beautiful flame
Flowing through us
Flowing through
Our hearts
Flowing
Through
Our souls

That inner calm
Is in us all
We tend to focus
On the things
That distract us
The things that keep us
From returning
To the source
Returning
To that inner calm
So that when life becomes turbulent
You will have that inner calm inside of yourself

Sometimes
People have
That inner halo
Shining light
For all to see
Shining their love
Warming our hearts
Showing us love
When we need it the most
Changing us
Changing our hearts
Changing ourselves
To better
Brighter
Versions
Of ourselves
Learning how to love
Learning
How to accept ourselves
How to accept life
Moving with love
Showing mercy
And kindness
To everyone
They meet

Connecting
Through spirit
Connecting
In our hearts
Connecting
To everything

Excitation
Moving
From one phase
Moving higher
Transforming
Your heart

There is a hole
In everyone
We all need God

The warmth of the sun
Shines on all our hearts

The light
Is there
Seeing it
Is the
Hard part

Accepting the truth
Can be as simple as
Accepting yourself

Unveiled riches await
They await in our hearts
We just have to know
How to access them
We tend to focus
So much on the physical
On the material
Focusing on money
And material wealth
That we tend to neglect
Our spiritual gifts
And our spiritual treasures
Sharing our riches with others
Who might not have
As many riches as we do
Sharing ourselves with others
Until our hearts are bursting
And overflowing
With kindness
With mercy
With love
Its when
We have
Found
These gifts
And when
We are willing
To share them with
Openly and honestly
That we will have truly
Unveiled the greatest riches of all

Another adopted metaphor

Sometimes
God can
Demonstrate
Redemption
We walk
Through this life
With our hearts
Hidden
Turning away
From the light
But through everything
God demonstrates his redemption everyday
He wants us
To return to him
Being redeemed
Living our lives
Becoming white
Washing away
Everything that was *****
Being redeemed
By God's glow
By God's love
By God's truth
We can demonstrate
Redemption
In our own lives
If we are willing
To accept it

By God

This is an adopted metaphor

Sometimes we can get scared
Letting life's fears
Consume us
Getting stuck in fears
Stuck in doubt
Stuck in a rut
We can move away from fear
Stop being scared
Living life fully
Living completely
Moving away from the doubts
Moving away from the fears
Being a little less scared
And embracing life fully.

Sometimes you have to hit the floor
Hit the bottom
Find humility
Sometimes you have to know
What it truly is to fall
Before you can fly
When life hits you hard
It can really feel like hitting a wall
Smacking into life
Full force
But its at these times
When we can truly find ourselves
In the pain
We can still find ourselves
In the dark
Finding our way
Even when the world
Is falling around us

Reclaim my life
Mold me to your ways
I want you to guide me
Guide me in your light
Guide me with your spirit
Guide me with your love
I feel you inside of me
Help me to grow
Help me to see
See your light
A little clearer
Feel you
A little nearer
Reclaim my soul
Reclaim my life
Guide me
So that I can rest once again
In your humbling grace

Make me over
Heal me
So that
I might see you
Make over my heart
Make me new
Heal my soul
I want you to
Remove the darkness
Remove the pain
Make me new
Make me over
In your image
Make me over
So that your light
May shine a little brighter
Shining through me
So that every one can see
Make me over
Change me and heal me
Until your spirit
Is all I see

Love like you mean it
Love completely
Love wholly
Connecting your heart
Loving life
Loving yourself
Sharing that love
With others around
Love like you mean it
Share yourself
Until love is all you see

I used to seriously wonder
Why it seemed that
There were so many people
Who have relationships
Who are married
Who have just started relationships
Or have been in relationships
For a long time
When it seemed like
Everytime I tried to
Reach out
In a romantic way
It ultimately was in vain
Either they were too far away
Or they would ultimately find someone different
Leaving my hope
Dashed a little bit more
And even when I would try
To connect with someone close
Ultimately they would just end up being friends
Or it would peeter out before
It even got started
But as I started to ask why
God gave me an answer
You are meant to love a different way
Connecting with the people around me
In loving ways
Showing love and grace
To whoever might need it
Healing and loving
Many loves
As I move on
Learning to love
And to give love
To my friends
The ones I truly love the most

Eternally yours
Eternally here to stay
Eternally and forever
Is God 's love
For all of his children
He gives us all the choice
To accept his love or not
But God loves all of his children
Eternally and forever

Our souls all rise to return to God
Returning to the source
Returning to our home
Returning to the place
Where we can call home
Returning to God
Returning to peace
As we all take
Our eternal sleep

Eye
On
The
Truth
Written
In
The
Sky
We fly
Soaring above
Grabbing the prize
The prize is in the sky
Written in our hearts
For us all to see

Its easy to get attached
To the things of the world
Its easy to get stuck
In the muck
Settling for
Earthly gains
Settling for less
Than what we actually deserve
Getting attached
To all the things
That hold us
All of the things that hold us down
Attached to the Earth
Stuck on the ground
Not truly being able
To soar into heaven

How do you gauge democracy, when democracy has been corrupted? How do you know what is just and what is right, when the system itself has fallen apart and the original idea has been completely lost. Lost to the wayside for a quick profit.

Produce sensitivity in your heart.
Be sensitive with others
Be sensitive with yourself
Be sensitive to others pains
Be sensitive to others hurts
Be sensitive for everyone
Who has ever been lost
Be sensitive with each other
We hurt so easily
We could all use a little sensitivty
To help us get through

The spirit is inside us all
The spirit is in everything
The spirit calls to us
In the middle of the night
When we can't get any calm
When we don't know
Which way to go
The spirit is there
Inside
Everywhere
Calling
Silently
Whispering
Letting you know it there
Seeing it in others
In everything
Guiding you
As you move through life

Whatever is holy
Whatever is light
Whatever is love
Whatever is peace
Whatever is calm
Whatever is hope
Whatever is mercy
Whatever is kind
Whatever brings that smile
Warms your heart
Warms your soul
Fills you up
Through the storm
Whatever encourages
Whatever it is that speaks to you
That heals
That helps you heal others
Is of God
Trust that God wants your happiness
He wants your joy
God is good
He loves all of his children

The date is unknown
What is known
Is the effect it had
On the world at large
When the fateful day
When Eve and Adam
Gave their innocence away
If you really think about it
The fall of man
Was inevitable from the start
Part of the bigger plan
For salvation on the Earth
If they had not fallen
We could surely not have been saved
They would have stayed innocent
Not being able to procreate
And to be able to procreate
And to populate the Earth
They also would have stayed immortal
Death would not have touched their lips
There would have been no need for salvation
Evolution would have stopped
Dead in its tracks
Stuck cold in an evolutionary draw
With nothing ever happening at all
But it was because of this fall
That we were able to die
So that way we could truly live
And live and procreate upon the Earth
And for better or for worst
We have moved along
Procreating and evolving
Moving closer to the day of reckoning
When our salvation
Shall be
Complete

The ephemeral
Is all around us
That inner spark
That inner flame
Is all around us
The spiritual
The little life
Flowing in
Everything
The healing
The miraculous
The wholeness
The filling
Of joy
Love
Light
God
Shining
In everything

The fog rolls in
Clouding the day
Blocking the sun
The fog rolls in
Until you can't see
Anything at all
The fog rolls in
And blinds your eyes
Keeps you from the sun
Keeps you from seeing
What is right in front of your face
Keeps from seeing
Anything
And everyone
And everything
Around you
Keeps you from seeing
The true beauty
The truth
Keeps you in a haze
Clouded from the truth
That is right
In front of
Your face

The greatest illusion
Of the world
Is the idea
That we are separate
We convince ourselves
We our separate
From nature
Separate from God
Separate from each other
Even separate
And even higher than
All the plants
And animals
And the universe all around us
We are all together
We are just different expressions
Of the same flame
That burns inside us all
We are all one
We are all connected
We just have to see it
Once you do
You will never see things
The same way again

A lot of things happen
We can allow
We can allow
A lot to happen to us
Not really knowing
How to stop the flow
The flow of life
When it seems
Like everything is happening
All at once

Conversations
In your mind
Playing out
Clouding
Your thoughts
A mile a minute
Conversations
Playing
Through your mind
Keeping you from peace
Not allowing you
To center
To find that quiet place
That refuge inside your mind
When the world comes stumbling in
Threatening your peace
Keeping you from getting sleep
Sometimes these conversations
Can seem so real
It can feel
Like these conversations
That incessant chatter
Just won't stop
Sometimes
Those thoughts in your head
Can become so constant
That you start to believe
That the thoughts
And the feelings
And the voices in your head
Are actually real
And you can begin to believe
The negative things
That keep playing through
Your mind
Sometimes
You have to separate yourself
From your thoughts
Learning to switch your thoughts
Switch your perspectives
So that you can begin to separate
The thoughts inside your head
And begin listening to
That calm inner voice
That encourages
That guides
That offers
Peace
Quiet
Calm
That lets you know
That you are beautiful
That you are
Exactly where
You should be

Rising
Soaring
Floating
Above everything
Rising above the pain
Rising above your past
Rising above all the things
That keep you from letting go
Finding yourself
Connecting to that healing
Light filled part of yourself
Letting go of everything
That grounds you
That holds you
That keeps you from floating
From flying
From soaring
Let go of the baggage of the world
And take on the wings of spirit
Give in to that lighter
Happier
More forfilled part of yourself
That will help you float
And rise above the trials
That will try to
Bring you back down again
Rise
Soar
Its easier to let go
Than you might think

Close
Shut
Fall
Drop
Closed
Alone
Heart
Mind
Alone
Shattered
Broken
Fallen
Free
Falling
Sorrow
Grief
Heart
Mind
Soul
Shattered
Picking up
Trying
To heal
After your world
Has shattered
Once you have
Become closed
Once you have
Fallen
Once your
Heart
Mind
Soul
Have shattered
Can be hard
Pulling your life
Back together again
Coherent
Thoughts
Coming together
Entering your mind
And heart

Sometimes you have to label relief
To really be able to feel it
If you don't know what it truly is
To accept relief in your life
Or even be able to give relief
To someone else
You can never start to heal
Until you can label
And identify
Relief

Gather happiness wherever you can
Gather happiness in your heart
That way when the storm of life hits you
You will have a store of happiness
To protect you through the storm
Gather the joy
Gather it in your heart
And make sure to gather happiness
For all those
Who could use a little more happiness
Themselves

Some people
Can take a back seat
When it comes to
Their own lives
Sitting in the back
Not really taking any
Responsibility
Or taking any actions
In their lives
Allowing people to run them
Giving up control of their lives
To everyone else but themselves
Not really knowing
How to take charge
How to take responsibility
For their own lives
And their own actions

Window seat
Sitting and watching
The world go by
Watching as the people move
As you move through the street
The pulse of the street
As you move along
Absorbing and watching
The people go by

Everything in life
Every moment
Is here
Right now
Everything is here
Everything you need
Is right here
Right now
You just have to know
How to access it
We all know the truth
Its inside of our hearts
Everything is right here
Right now
Everything you need
Is right inside inside your soul
Inside your mind
Inside your heart
You just have to seek
And you shall find

Acceptance can be harder than you think
Accepting yourself
Accepting where you are
Accepting life
Accepting peace
Accepting love
Accepting hurt
Accepting pain
Accepting your past
Accepting that everything you have been through
Has lead you
To exactly where you are now
Even if its hard to accept sometimes

People are interesting
We hurt
There are times
When it feels like
We can't breathe
When life can swallow us whole
When the world can come crashing in
Darkness can consume us
To the point where we it can become all we know
Even as much as we hurt
We have faith
There is that little light inside of us
That can lead us through
If we have faith
And start to accept life how it is
And start to accept our place in it
Moving forward with grace and love
Stepping out of the storm
Into the light
Accepting ourselves
Accepting the healing
Accepting the love
That is growing inside

Sometimes
Life is as easy
As learning to listen
Learning to listen
To that little voice
The little voice in you that knows
We all have this little voice inside
The voice that leads the way
That tells us which way to go
When we can feel the most lost
We often don't take time
To stop and listen
We get so busy
We can often overlook it
And stop paying attention
But its when we take the time
To be still and listen
Thats when the voice will come
To lead you through the storm

Sometimes
You have to deal with
The good and bad of life
You have to be willing
To take rest in the good times
And to persevere through the rough times
Adding them together
Understanding
That with every dark cloud
With every new rain
There is an opportunity to grow
The sun is always waiting
To bring forth abundance
If you learn
To accept the good
And the bad

Its good to be helpful
Its nice to give back
Whenever you can
Sometimes being a little helpful
Can mean the difference
In someone else's day
Sometimes something as simple
As sharing a little time
A little extra energy
Taking that little extra effort
To be a little more helpful
Can have huge effects
For the people
Who are receiving your kindness
And who you are being helpful to

Some people have ulterior motives
They hide behind their smiles
Using falsehoods
And speaking double speak
Trying to control
Manipulate
Take over
Anything
That they can
You have to
Be wise enough
To see people's
Ulterior motives
And know who
Is telling the truth

Robotic
Cold
Calculating
Lacking life
We can become robotic
In life
Forgetting what its like
To be human
To live
Becoming cold
Losing our emotions
Shutting out
Any emotion
That might
Cloud our minds
Open up your emotions
Don't be afraid to live
And let yourself
Be human
Every once in a while