TOWARD YOU

Dawn awakens
 Grey skies part
I seek a path
 Unto Your heart

Set upon a path to find
 Surrender from a labyrinth mind
Quieted now I strive to hear
 Your truth and will as I draw near

Toward You as my center
  No longer lost
Oriented now
  By the sight of Your cross

As my journey turns and I twist away
 By faith and grace God's work displayed
Certain only for this day
 Lead me in each step today
Let me hear You Lord - dare I pray
 
A lone carpenter's saw
  cuts my sin of past
A door now heard - suddenly open
 Through it I walk - at long last

Foot steps paced - now open stride
 heart beat pounds
His arms held wide
  In His Glory we'll reside

Let your LOVE for those un-known
 though our live's NOW be shown
Moved us from chaos toward content
 All shining jewels before Your throne


 - Composed at The Stone Labyrinth Walk, 1st Congressional Church San Jose

THE SOCIAL NET's WORTH

... am I Checking-in or Checking-out?

I am NOT an avatar

I am NOT a job title

I am neither the words you WANT to hear

... nor am I a _Profile Status_.

Who am I?
Possibly, at this moment

I am a mirror poised to reflect each of us

I've been that iDad...

way too plugged-in

STILL searching for _An App4that_

So immersed with capturing iPleasures

that i'd managed to screen out the lives around me

AN IMAGING PROFESSIONAL

so willing to impress others by focusing my lens on you

that i'd abandoned an entire family

So NOW my prayer is to become like THAT Man

Sweeping EACH child up into His arms so...

... THUM - THUMP - THUMP - THUMP...

they would know A heart reverberates with pure love

passion, contentment and commitment

I am NOT a TO DO List

Nor a HONEY DO list

... i'm no A-Lister

I am neither UnEMPLOYED - Self/iEMPLOYED nor UnderEMPLOYED

I am not a 2010 Census figure or a Neilsen Demographic

Not a Boomer or a GenX'r or an xBox'r

Nor a Targeted Mass Consumer

While I am NOT who I was... 

AM I WHO I SHOULD BE?

... but what is Good?

- to do justice

- to love kindness

- and to walk humbly with Your God

I Pray we may each perpetuate His Truth

a fellowship acknowledging that our LIVES and SALVATION

we owe to Christ.

Host Celebration

An immigrant son
born to this Christian nation
... a journey pre-destined - Your will my intention.

Borders unbounded
through truth and wisdom
when missions align
to expand the Kingdom
... gratefully accept His grace and salvation.

Set upon this earthly path
- temptations
- complications
... overcomers opposed to His wrath

--

Affect in brokenness
no greater than Cause
... a season beholden we must simply pause

Our time here
... so brief  - know only by You 

I worship through prose
and lay before you the fruit of our life
Crowns for your Glory
Deserving our best
I deliver His Story
... from a most favored guest

Found this .txt file while executing a

L O N G  O V E R D U E hard drive backup... 

John's such a H U G E SF Giants fan... i know he's gotta lotta happy right now!!!

DEVINE INSTANT


In that moment
 when our eyes met
you've since said
  a plan was set


Two spirits
  Kindred
Chaos
  Survived
a Coupleship entered
  our lives collide


Vows shared
  Tender
Wedding rings
  Exchanged
Trials
  Prevailed
True Love
  Remains


Grace
  Understanding
Patient
  Kind
Passion then contentment
  Loving You
Sublime


Outside ourselves
  beat hearts
a Daughter
  and Son

Two Devine Instants
  Weld our souls into one


Happy Birthday Kitten!

uRloved

DELUGE OF GRACE


Befitting the celebratory nature of any birthday, today's post honors another year of sobriety.


I listen in silence
My mind matured, now disciplined to hear
Blocking out the auditory graffiti of urban sprawl
Bending ears inward I feel this boy's fear

On this sidewalk a young mother's anger boils
He stumbles upon legs weary
Shifting her daughter to the other hip she drag him only steps further

Facing long past failures and possible rejection
I'm uncertain how to proceed
I ask how to surrender to Your will...

As she reaches for a branch
to spread her wrath across his skin
Your compassion draws me near

Tiny fingers anchored to a chain link fence
His voice cries out from injustice

At that moment Lord you lift him up
His arms circle my neck and tears fall down my shoulder
Above his breathlessness I whisper
Si Mijo, You Are Loved...

And as the four of us walk
separated by cultural boundaries
You guide us to safety
Translating Your unspoken language of grace and forgiveness
And bestowing upon each of us mercy, love and healing

Celebrating the Christ Child's bDay!

I'm so grateful for His blessings...
so here's 2009's final post as a gift:
_________________________


Pre-dawn dreams stirred
Thoughts unrelenting
Day begins anew
My conscious enlightened

His will for this moment in rhyme
Like a door shut
I've not crossed that line

In prayer I will seek
Truth eventually I'll find
But only in
His Perfect Time

On this life threshold
For my heart to give voice
I see Christ revealed
My only choice

And His anointing is gifted
When His Throne is lifted
May His Glory be All we rejoice!

Our Fathers' Son and His likeness
I strive to be near
Head uplifted - Look beyond any fear
Until then we go humbly forward
In-service, helping those we hold dear