breeze on by.

now i've got the sunshine everyday
no more clouds are in our way.
so easy, like an angel above from the sky,
you come into my life and you just breeze on by.

under attack.

you try and cope
with how they victimize you.
for when they're down,
they only criticize you.

Lord, I'm asking now for mercy
because they need to break it.
i'm praying hard for strength now
because we just can't take it.

test.

God is testing me. In order to move into the next stage of my life, He is testing me. He is testing my patience, my ability to learn and absorb, to apply His teachings to my life, and to stand strong in my belief, among other things. If he was not testing me, how else can I account for the proliferation of the things that are now tempting me in ways that I must resist. How can I disregard my own strength in morality when I'm constantly plagued with an environment that is defined by such easy immorality or relaxed morality (whatever way you want to define it). The situation I am in now is puzzling. Even if it were not against the law, even though it is, I find it very difficult to find the blessing that exists in that. The happiness that exists in those things is temporary, it's in passing. It isn't real. Most importantly, it isn't lasting. True bliss is in what happens organically to us. Love walks in and fulfills that desire. No drug can replace that feeling. I guess because I had the awakening of sorts in regards to what is really important, to me at least, in life - being surrounded by those whose purpose is defined by their theatrical resume, they can't relate to my desire to accomplish something within me. For there to be integrity, fortitude, grace and love inside of me and everything I do - that is what defines me. I know. You know. God knows. That is what matters.

Side note: blogging from your iPhone is difficult.

integrity.

integrity.

What a powerful word to apply to anything and everything you do, because, eventually, lies will catch up to you. I had someone tell me a long time ago that if you lie, you have to cover that lie with another lie... and, eventually, you will have had to keep track of so many lies, that it would have been easier in the long run to tell the truth. You don't need to embellish anything about your life. You don't need the work you're doing to seem bigger than it is, because it is big. It's yours. It speaks for itself, in that way. Always be honest.

for you.

i just love the mornings
when we're side by side.
every night together is
a moment in paradise.

when we touch the sky,
light shines through the darkest day.
it is only you and i
who can reach the sky that way.

there'll be no more teardrops
our eyes will cry.
this is where we are now,
no reason left to sigh.

now it seems there's a different
dawn for us at daybreak.
and if life wasn't all you hoped for today,
may tomorrow be perfect when you wake.

baby, don't you see that our heaven has begun
now together, we are one.

a little space.

i have been hiding all my hopes away
never knowing where i was to start,
never thinking i would need them again someday.
but God set aside this time for me
to clear a little space in my heart,
so that there is room inside for us to be...

untitled 8.

these are crazy times
in what turns out to be a crazy life,
where anything could happen next.

fortunes are made overnight
and are lost just as quickly.
friends come and go with time.

lovers do not simply glimpse eternity,
they stare it in the face,
conflicted between fear and ecstasy.

billions of souls,
more than you will ever know,
say no.

another billion,
the few brazen,
say yes.

we have much in common.