Monday, January 30, 2006

.: one :.

You only get one chance
Is this how you want to spend it?
What if you waste it?
What if something better comes along later?
What if it is just around the corner?
Do you really want to come this far

Only to spend it like this?
Are you sure that you are ready to commit yourself to this decision?
Do you have what it takes to follow through?
Especially if and when it turns out to not be what you had expected?

At some point you are going to have to draw a line in the sand
At some point you are going to have to make this utmost important decision
At some point you are going to have to push all in and risk it all
If you want to win as big as you have been longing for
Waiting is only going to cause more confusion and up the ante that much more
And as you grow more suspicious

You will make it harder and harder to do on into the future

There is something deeper here than happiness
There is something richer here than success
There is something larger than just what you can see for yourself
Your eyes are beginning to open

But only as you continue to focus on what's before you
You cannot lose
If only you would hold onto the single thing that no one can keep you from
That which you possess
That which you have been hiding from
That which has come to you

But only by differing accounts of a great price
That which no one does like unto you

Do that
Be that
Live the life that your heart is begging for
Though you have so often rehearsed how to silence it
Do so no more

And hear it cry aloud in tones beyond measure or control

1 comment:

  1. Dave, Your words are sound. Your last paragraphs discription of the Word is closer to the heart of the Father and in context with who He is and what He dreams of with us. i loved it.

    Imagine a love letter, decontructed, devided into sections and studied for syntax and structure, that in doing so, totally missed the point of the lovers heart. It's profanation of the text.

    I am learing to use the idea of "theological refelction" as much as inductive methods. I am finding it much more informative to my context here in 2006 and draws me to the heart of God, instead of to the fix-it of god.

    Mark

    Thanks for the encouragement.

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