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| love and hateLove and hate don’t mix well.
For a while I thought they couldn’t mix at all…and maybe they can’t, but ive realized they can coexist, co-inhabiting a person. The problem with love and hate is that hate seems to put an ugly stain on the purity, purpose and clarity of love. Its like an oil spill in our beautiful ocean; corrosive and corruptive to the ocean’s sensitive eco system. Hating on something, no matter what apparent cause, seems to root in the simple sin nature within a (hu)man where the introspective can captivate and elicit a person to hate. Yes! By sin we all share something inside us that is ugly enough to cause hate! This can wreak and ravage the cleansing love that is not of human nature, but given from a higher power. This ugliness people carry is always there, but it’s the redemptive power of Christ’s salvation that allows one to know that they have a God, a love source that can overpower hate, as the largess of an ocean can overcome even the damages of the tragic Exxon oil spill.
There is an enemy of this love, and friend of sin that lurks and will make every effort to remind one of their sinfulness. This enemy tricks people unknowingly to put aside God’s generous love, and be consumed by the pain and insecurity within, projected into bitterness, anger and HATE.
This is a warning, but also a message of thankfulness for God’s grace is truly sufficient and He reminds me to protect His love from my sin by turning my gaze inward out.
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| Incompatible words in expression of lovefragments of time/captured moments of love gained
Its only the beginning but what a journey it has been
How two very different souls could share a love like ours
Coincidence and confidence curiosity in tact
On the other side of the world the mother land would treat
To destiny delicious dependency on the Lord’s guiding hand
Flip flops through puddles of a fledging new friendship
Songs and sounds and the site of common friends
Udon so unsightly accompanied by irreproachable attraction
What a night to kick it off a start to friendship that lasts
And love that would come, celebrated at train stations and classes
The mountains and oceans Gods wonderful masterpiece
The perfect backdrop to Independence Day’s delight
And excitedly fearfully with risk on that day we did
commit to discovering the beauty about and within
Coupled against the endless backdrop of wave after wave
As we navigated through uncharted territory of love and pain
Amidst the crazy cycle of intermittent love respect and again
We would be defined by our Gods grace and our inward craze
And find Gods mercy expertly revealing of the forgiveness we craved
And through time together and apart, we failed God but found grace
Now we’ve come this far, beyond wounds of hostility
Beyond idle hopes and fears and still only by Gods Mercy
We grow more madly in love with more than the idea we once clung to
With a soul, a friend, a forever partnership with love that’s true
and with a little help from beloved we are ready to cement our promises
Part II
You’re beautiful, you took me by hand and tearfully complied
Then flashes and poses and people paraded in celebration
Us, we had become, a bond cemented in the promise
Anew we are as one but still apart waiting for the day
When morning and night finds you by my side for good to stay
And now our first valentine my love in which we celebrate
And praise our Father for the promise of I do
And God generational blessing on which our eyes fixate
And love to live and live the life by the word that’s true
Rejoicing for what awaits in being in love with you
Written and unedited on Oct 11, 2007 and Feb 3, 2008
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| Hi this is my first dive in the cyberblog world. What will it reveal? probably not much. But my expectations are nil. So it goes...
I do not understand, but Our God is so merciful. good night to my many (many) friends who will read this.
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