Embrace

An embrace...who can define it?

It's scope is so wide.

No matter what the context,

It can be deep as the tide.

It can't be contained,

In script or in song.

It's loves handshake,

And friendships belong.

It may be hello,

It may be goodbye.

Needs no explaining.

or reasoning why.

Shoulder to shoulder,

Chest to Chest.

An embrace of a dear,

Is always the best.

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An embrace is not merely a hug,

It's about with whom you cut lifes rug...

Dance with me?

Longing

Longing is odd, it comes and it goes

Where it finds sticking points, nobody knows

Without direction, longings just ache

But when it finds target, it's coals and a rake

It is reason and purpose, a mantle for dreams

Only airbrushed and candied, not all that it seems

It's not just about what is, it's about what could be

Sometimes its from longing, we long to be free

Pacing

Unsure, troubled

Trying to figure out

What's the source of conflict

But there really is no doubt

That the pacing up and down

Has a source that rings true

And the pacings not for what I don't

But for what I do...

Galatians Haiku

My own seed planted,

Not one fruit of the Holy Spirit,

Why am I surprised?

Enough

Clamour and stammer to the next big sale,

 Cheese puff jars as big as a whale.

Commercials are running from Coast to Coast,

 To advise me of what I need the most.

The sight turns to like, then to want, then a need,

 Contentment abolished by systemic greed.

Flyers and coupons promise savings galore,

 Put it on credit and I can get more.

For stuff and for things I will misbehave,

 Purchasing my master, becoming its slave.

"It's all not enough!" my decisions proclaim,

 Is it any surprise I treat Jesus the same.

Gods Walking Club

Its funny how we all have a deep seeded need for proximity.  There is a vast difference in reading a book on a couch by your self, or reading one with someone next to you... be it a sibling, a spouse, or a friend...you don't event have to be reading WITH them... just next to you. In proximity to you.  Feeling thier warmth and hearing their breath.

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God knows about this.  He built us this way, because He IS that way.  He started the first walking club... with Adam and Eve in the Garden, every morning. He didn't have to... He is God and He is everywhere... He could have shown up as a giant floating head if He wanted to... He could see them at all times.  So why would He walk with them every morning?  Because he wants face time.  He wants relationship. 

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That does not happen over the phone, or over the Internet, or in a text message...it face to face.  Sure those things are useful tools and can help us connect, but it is not a replacement.   So put your computer, your mobile, and your ipod down and be with some one... be it a friend, loved one, child or spouse (and chiefly, your maker)... just connect...its what God did with the first two of us...

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thoughts? 

Thoughts on thievery

It is the fortunate man who is robbed in anonymity.

  It is true torture to see your thief enjoy their spoils.

How must God feel, seeing us take our fill of what is His,

  Without taking our fill of Him.