Faith + Love + Wisdom
Take me to the altar open like a casket vulnerable for everyone to see. Take me to the altar refine me with your grace fill every inch of me. Take me to the altar where lives are resurrected and changed completely. Take me to the altar to bask in your presence— and grow like an…
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Eyes closed tight, hoping to stay unconscious throughout the night but you awaken me. Too many visions of you, my palms pressed against your jaw, only to get a perfect view– one without any flaws. I loved you so much I flew into your arms in awe at every part of you. It was your…
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If love was like crisp autumn mornings, would you still open a window to let the sun in? Despite the frost, I open up like a new journal to be tampered with until it becomes something familiar. Until the feeling of paper on rough finger tips become a need–an expectation to be used purposefully. Unleash your secrets…
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If I could see me as you see me, then doubt would become a myth. Your love is undying altering, refining yet I try to replace it with the world. Believing I can fill my own spirit, but forgetting that it’s you who provides. I have enough, because of you. I have enough, in you.…
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White turtle doves across electric wires underneath the earth cracks and conspires to make sense of how stainless creatures can roam unaffected whilst the world burns and forests are neglected, when will we think of creatures other that ourselves? when did we become less than earth’s caretakers? I pray for those that lack empathy. I…
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A relationship with you is all I desire so purify me with your holy fire. Change me until I am fit to enter your empire, one with glass floors and white sapphires. I aim to become how you made me– a follower of Christ to only serve thee. What do you really want in God?…
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I reclaim my life and what I have been called to do. For your grace has awakened me to speak boldly about your gospel. We bind the forces that oppress and control, the forces of evil that deceive and steal, no longer has power for I exist in the kingdom of God. Your hate has…
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Our father, who art in heaven fill me with your holy presence. let your words take hold of me to turn me into a devotee– a humble servant who seeks you, to spread life and your truth. for I only wish to fulfill your will not my desires, instead instill your holy plan and yours…
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Dried lips crack into a painful smile as skin becomes rigid like winter’s air fingertips scrape on split cobble stone with broken glass piercing bare feet hair drenched in ice cold sweat shivered to the bone with deathly silence I thought it was a dream, yet you truly existed. Sometimes, I like…
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“Wynonna hurry up!” Mom hollers from the front corridor. Her feet stomp and a suitcase drags through the upstairs hallway, down the steps, and out the front door. I rummage through my bedroom closet and toss random clothes into the open suitcase behind me. “Okay, shirts, pants, sweaters, shoes… what am I missing?” I recite…
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