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Morning
As dawn burns away fog, so Your light burns me - pride, arrogance, deceit, all melt in Your gaze. Obscurity and Denial are no match for Your rays; they squirm and justify but are undone like morning...
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Gleaming
When Fate has frozen fortune, When winter has its way, When hanging on takes all you’ve got And circumstances prey, Open heart to springtime rays And soak up brilliant sun, For in the Light, your hope...
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Just Two of Us
Just two of us in single skin, Dark and Light at odds within; Dark pulls hard to blacker space, Light yanks back to trusting place. Dark holds hurt, and cradles pain; Dark won’t grow, so wounds...
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Dim
Dim, as through a glass darkly, eyes seek out Your light. Veils, be gone - cataracts seek sun as surfer seeks sea, rest and restoration no matter the weather. Rise, dawn of my heart, bloom in rainbows...
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Make My Mark
Though I’m small and brittle-weak, Your Light can shine and make my bleak A radiance to dazzle dark - brilliant way to make my mark. Filed under: A Wounded Heart, Beauty, Christianity, Fragility, Hope,...
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Breaking Through
Forest feels like second skin by now, beam upon beam raised in self-defence. Logging permits don’t pass easily - deforestation is distinctly painful. But when pines part, oxygen stirs, canopy is cut,...
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Full-Spectrum Brilliance
Disillusionment wraps warped tentacles in flesh and drags her to Marianas Trench. She’s been chasing the pot of gold at the end of sopping rainbows, concluding that Life just doesn’t want to be lived,...
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Puffed Up
It’s more than pride that puffs her up. Layers build buffers between soul and the cold; in the places where denial runs up against reality, stripping down is decidedly counter-intuitive. Fences may...
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Holy Ground
Remove soles Sandals, those ties That bind Spirit to earth, Heart to hearth Bow before the burning bush, In amber ashes Iniquities are atoned for Soul can strain against strings here For this is Holy...
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The Need For Easter
Ever since you stepped into the Light, your true colours are leaching out, bleeding filth onto what you tried to convince yourself was pure as the driven snow. Purity is only relative; compared to your...
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Enlightened
Wholeness remained elusive while he ignored his holes; now that they are invited to meet the sun, what trickles through christens him enlightened. Filed under: A Wounded Heart, Characterizations,...
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Old Sins Cast Long Shadows
Old sins cast long shadows, aspersions of grey in filmy ink to ensnare generations and keep them in the dark; this little light of mine will only reach one small corner, but I will let it shine. Filed...
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Birthright
From dust to dust, she’s crawled for years, serpentine, a snake in dead grass; but now that she’s heard her song sung over her, she dares to lift her eyes and claim sunshine as her birthright. Filed...
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You Call My Name
You call my name in the garden, in tones of purest sunshine. I hear, and come out of my tomb, my ears cradled in the radiance of this voice that can wake the dead. * Spotted Deadnettle in bloom For a...
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Colour-Coded Freedom
Until the morning’s dazzle, she never knew the night had stripped her eyes of the ability to perceive colour, . and her blindness did not offend. She groped and cursed and stumbled but assumed that...
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Dawn
You draw out her utmost, her highest, her deepest, You give her the courage it takes to stride on; Your beams warm her spirit, shine comfort, bedazzle, remove the confusion with breaking of dawn....
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Get Real
She wants to get real. Her thirst is a mirror, reflecting a parched soul to blind eyes; the more she confesses, the more she recognizes her hollowness. Only Light can fill her now - energy in...
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Cracks
He plastered cracks with thin veneer, deflected scrutiny with hollow jokes . to laugh the scars away; but meeting Love has peeled his bark’s resources, . stripped bare his polyurethane. Terror and...
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After
After tears, a grin, after loss, a win; as hope soars on love’s wing, after winter, spring. After darkness, light, after stumbles, flight; as battles fought are won, after rain blooms sun. Filed under:...
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Ignition
When she saw the light, something in her cells got charged. Turned on. Illuminated. And she knows now that fragility and brilliance hold hands in dark places, a collision course with gloom that can...
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