Hope Victorious

  Friend I wish you wings – to carry you high and far           A new perspective           Soar my friend           Fast and Free I wish you a safe place to land           A place to rest           Air to breathe deeply           Clean and cool I wish you friends to share the journey           To sing with you each morning           Rest close by in the evening light Soar free my friend           And let me hear your song I am listening for you     Tension      You can feel happy and sad at the same time      You can be full of hope and enthusiasm in one area of life      Yet discouraged and profoundly unmotivated in another      You can love someone that you are angry with                Life is full of tension                You feel the full range of emotions                And you choose which emotion will lead your action      That choice is powerful      ….with endless results!                        My Child The light in your smile      Your laughter like music      Your wonder

It sounds good…but all too often, it is not at all what I am asking for or hoping to receive.   Understanding is often the very thing that I am seeking. Peace that surpasses all understanding is what is promised. A peace too great to comprehend; that exceeds my ability of my reasoning, the capacity of my intellect.   I am aware that much of the time I short circuit my own pursuit of this peace.   I go to God with my questions, my long list of requests, desires and inquiries.   I bring my fears and anxiety, my weaknesses and lack. I am asking for answers, for strategies and direction. I often want to know what I should do.   The truth is this: what I want IS understanding.   I want to understand WHY!   Why what is happening is actually happening and why it is not somethings else, like what I desperately wish were happening! I want to understand HOW to respond. I want to know what to do, how to think, how to feel and I especially want to know WHEN it is going to change!   When I stop to

Your heart is vast Endless love contained within you Poured out on those who receive you The same as those who reject you Your eyes that see it all Yet you love and offer hope, rescue, and a way into peace It is more than my mind can understand      The hope you offer knows no bounds – at once marvelous and scandalous      I consider the sin you will forgive      The lives you have restored Your hand expended to those in rebellion, denial and oppression A boundless love offensive in what it will embrace There is no despair so great No choice so horrifying that it could overwhelm the magnitude of your love My mind cannot comprehend it But still my eyes can see it      What is there to say, but yes again to you?!      Yes! to the God of endless, unintimidated love      A love that knows no bounds –   at once marvelous and scandalous I run towards you – not away I will not let my mind judge a love I cannot fathom Nor will I hold back from receiving      Arms held out wide      I will not