I AM in love

I wrote this poem yesterday on Easter Sunday in the early evening before sunset.  I wanted to finish off my day with a quick visit to the beach.  Yesterday was such a good reminder of the kind of love Jesus has bestowed upon us being that he died for all of humanity.  I was once again enthralled by the purity of His love as I thought about Jesus yesterday I remembered these verses: 


" Let the king be enthralled by your beauty;
honor him, for he is your lord." Psalms 45:11 


"The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love:
therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee." Jeremiah 31:3


"For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,  nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38-39


The events and inspiration of the day all culminated to the words that follow; and being that this blog is geared towards encouraging young women and men in purity and integrity I thought I would post what I wrote.

I Am in Love

I can’t breathe

I can’t sleep 

I can’t even blink without thinking about You.

Could a love so deep exist?

In a form beyond human lips,

before I’ve ever been touched or kissed?

As I look across the ocean 

in a distance that never ends

dig my feet into the infinite grains of sand

Watch the birds glide across the sky

arrayed with billows of clouds 

all contrasted against the sound of

Your waves crashing against the shore.

Your love pounds in my heart

and I know that I know

this love does exist! 

Beyond human touch,

the greatest love this world thinks it knows 

between a man and his woman

exists a greater force of love!

Could I be this lucky to have found it

before the world drowned it with lies

and illusions of a tainted, half-baked

kind of love?

Many think I am just young and naive

creating my own vision that innocence breeds.

When asked the question,

have you ever been in love? 

I always say, no...I don’t believe I have.

but all that time I was wrong

I’ve been in love since before the age of seven,

fell in love with my Savior, 

and ever since then 

it’s grown deeper and stronger 

within my heart 

the way I see things,

the way I see people, 

the way I see creation..

how could I not know love?

The way I feel, the way I think, 

the way I look for you with eternity in my eyes

the way I long to honor and respect 

this man named Jesus.

I know that this is real,

and I know that this is love!

right now I’ll let your sunset on my heart

and when I wake 

please kiss me with your rays

as I continue to live out my days

so totally, completely, recklessly

and almost on the verge of irresponsibly,  

in love with you, 

my Savior, my Love. 

I AM made alive

             I have been made alive!....wait a minute does that mean that I was born dead?  "Even when we were dead in our transgressions, [He] made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved. (Ephesians  2:5)"
                      Why shall I educate myself to know all the current and past issues of our country?  Teach me to know why we are arguing and spending and dying for a freedom I thought was already mine.  Why should I learn the names of politicians and the ebbs and flows of economic conditions?  Should I go to school to study the issues and the wars and the failures of the past hoping to use that as my foundation for changing the world?  Why?
                If I spend half my life studying the problem, when will I learn of the solution?  I see the wisdom in understanding our history in order to not repeat the same downfalls, but we are developing a nation who has so carefully deconstructed and analyzed every problem.  We know the ins and the outs of all our failures.  We know what systems don't work and why.  We have P.H.D's in all the world's issues...but what about the inspiration that comes from the solution?
                 It's hard to find that drive, that spark, that vision of an actual solution that could change our lives.  Mostly because we've glorified our problems so much that we can't grasp an actual solution.  In my heart I know that it begins with inspiration and encouragement and the passion to trust that all things are possible to him who actually does believe.  If I could give you one piece of wisdom it would be to believe again in Him who has risen.  Though today would mark the day where all hope was lost.  I mean historically yesterday the Savior died and was still dead the second day waiting in the grave.  What had the disciples to hope for?  All that they put their hope in was completely gone, totally dead!!  Could this describe the state of our hearts in a nation turned upside down by it's current condition?   How long will we let our hearts remain dead, asleep, unshaken, and numb to a solution?  That second day was and is a reality in history and in the present day.  Jesus died and he remained dead.  So how are you going to live today?  Will you let your hope remain dead, your hearts frozen cold,  and your life falling further    
into the grave you've prepared for yourself?  Will you pass on beyond Easter celebrations of eating chocolate filled eggs,  chasing a distraction as the fictional Easter bunny (whom we teach our children is more real than Jesus himself)  hops by filling our baskets with fleeting treasures; letting marshmallow peeps stain your teeth yellow and pink? Will you think of what really happened on Easter and let it resurrect your own heart and dreams seeing that the solution never died!  It was just tested and tried, beaten and bruised, mocked and crucified!  You see the solution can never die, even in the grave Jesus was and is the only one who can save.  Rearranging the problems will never change the answer.  The solution remains the same, regardless of how much you test it, recheck it, edit it and reevaluate or even disengage your brain hoping to come upon another answer.  Four will always be the answer to the equation of two plus two as Jesus will always be the answer to a broken and dying humanity.  There's only one sure way to to awaken your heart, your hopes, our nation, our world.  I hope Easter reminds you of the solution we've neglected to recognize.  Jesus rose again and so will those who surrender and let Him in.  I thank God that I am made alive through Him.