Attraction Is More Than Looks (Rough)

With beauty ever fleeting
She runs into your arms
And finds love in a savior
That man she could find not

Embraced in transformation
You turned her life a new
An answer to the prayers
That you gave me long ago

A relationship was formed
Based on loving you
And the attraction grew into me
That was more then just her beauty

With tear streaked cheeks I pray
Not to let her go
But to bring the people to her
That will only help her grow

I thank you God for this
New found friend I have
The joy that she brings to me
The blessing she's become

When the Transformed Rebuild and Bring Justice

I''ve spent the past couple of weeks listening to Rick McKinley's series on Transformation. This was a series taken from Isaiah 61 and the transformation that God wants to bring in our lives. The later part of the verse talks about God's transformaed people rebuilding the ciy and how God loves justice. And as I was driving home from the grocery store this evening this concept finally clicked.

The simple fact that God wants people to go into the broken places of the world, of our communities, and bring the transformation he's done in us to these places. But we as a church don't go. We "don't belong" in the ghettos, in the broken places. And as this thought hit me as to why rebuilding and justice isn't taking place in our world it really made me mad.

Late summer/early fall I'm moving. My desire to be closer to the city (DC) and my limited funds have forced me to look inot areas where people I know ask me if I'm crazy. "Aren't you worried something bad will happen?" It makes me wonder what we're trusting God for. We'll send missionairies to third world countries and places of danger but we have a fear of going to the broken places in the world for fear that something bad might happen to us. It's hard to make a difference when we all live in nice houses in the country next to our neighbors from our church.

My desire is to be in the middle of what God is doing and I believe God is waiting to do something exciting and he wants to bring transformation and a rebuilding and justice to the broken places of this world. He just have to avail ourselves to go where he leads.


I'm working on a poem called (at the moment) "Her Deep Beauty"". It's about a friend of mine and what makes her such a joy to be around. That should be posted early this week.

Not Dead

I've been meaning to post something new for a while but I seem to always find something else to do. In the next couple of weeks I'll be more productive. In two weeks I'll be posting some thoughts on art in connection with God and share a little more about Something Beautiful.

Part of the point of starting this blog was to share some of my writings and poems and I'm going to post a couple over the next couple of days.

So there will be content coming.