Ask me in writing

When I speak, I feel like I have a speech impediment or continual memory loss. I forget almost every other word I'm trying to say. Simple words, everyday words, I find myself fighting to grab hold of them somewhere in the atmosphere of my mind. Just hoping to stumble upon the right one in the dark. It's all mumbles and blank looks. There is a great divide between my brain and my tongue. 

But when I write, words just seem to come looking for me. It's like I can breathe them out naturally. As though I'm sitting on a cloud in an open sky, where nothing is hidden forever. It's the only time I am most at ease. Writing feeds my soul. I think I need to write.

Darkness Shook

Light is a bewildering musing. When it's awake, you hardly acknowledge its presence or take much time thinking about it at all. But once it dies away, you're immediately aware of its absence. Like most things, with time, you can adjust and adapt to any environment you're in and somehow live through darkness as if it's part of your DNA. Growing symptoms of negativity, cynicism and hopelessness, like there's no promise in tomorrow. But I've heard it said that joy comes in the morning. When the sun rises and its light warms our daily lives, we have the choice to close the blinds or step out into it plain sight. 

“You are the light of the world—like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden.”

(Matthew 5:14) 

Shine it into every conversation you have, into every room you enter, into every thought you carry. Light is like truth. Seek truth, pursue truth, love truth. Whenever you find yourself in a dark place, there is light inside you that is always accessible. Release it. Allow it to reveal righteousness, hope and love. Light is beautiful. It is only through light that we can truly see what is right or wrong. Light is more than just physical visibility. You can be blind and still follow the light of truth closely. You can be deaf and still hear the light of love calling. You can be mute and still speak the light of peace into chaos.

In light there is freedom. The darkness doesn't have to be daunting if you believe you are the light, solely because you have the Light Source living inside of you. “The one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone...” (John 1:9)

Even in darkness, we can rest, with the knowledge of His Presence always here. 

There are few things more magnificent than a star filled night sky, one that is found in the desert or on top of the mountain heights. Completely untouched by civilisation or interrupted by electrical city lights. And so it is when we ask Jesus to fill our darkness with His Light. Our hearts become like fields of stars and erupt with unending Redeemer's love.  When the King of Kings settles within, that's when purpose slowly seeps in. What once was a distant, dim, desire, can now become a life breathing fire. As we habitually choose to overcome evil with good. 

That's how the darkness shook. When our earth wept in sorrow and demons lost their power. 'Twas only because of His Great Sacrifice, that a new order birthed through the roots. 

Thereupon our true lives begun to bloom. 

If you feel as though there aren't any promises to assuredly hold onto, know that this one is true also for you, 

"Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. And you know the way to where I am going.”(John 14:1-4 NLT)

And then there was morning, a new day.