Well, Adam,
Who's in charge of your life? Who makes the decisions to allow the life to be sucked out of you? Who decides each morning whether to have joy or sorrow, conflict or peace, prosperity or poverty, stress or conflict? YOU DO! There's no outside forces (including the most malicious demons) that can force you into depression...unless you let them. There is no being, either spiritual or physical, who can separate you from the love, joy, and peace of God...unless you let them. We live in a hateful, downtrodden, sinful world, and that's where we remain. If we allow the spirits who dominate this world to influence our thought processes, then it's easy to despair. But guess what? I bought the book and skipped ahead to the last chapter and guess what...the good guys win! God's alive and well! He's on the TV, He's all over the internet, He's in many local churches, and He's in you & me. If you have accepted His gift of eternal life, believed in His Son Jesus Christ, and asked to be born again, you have NO reason for despair...even if you're a starving artistic personality given to such moods. Get up tomorrow morning, be thankful that you are breathing. If you can walk and talk (many can't), give praise! If you can read (many more can't), get giddy thankful and read some Scripture. Walk with God. Talk with God. Then, when you feel like this ol' world is sucking the life out of you, laugh!! Laugh at yourself, laugh at the world, and laugh at the thought that a child of God, an adopted brother of Jesus Christ and an heir to the Kingdom, could feel that this poor lost world could make him feel bad. Then, go and have a GREAT day!
this poem expresses what is in my soul often. just yesterday i traveled with a colleague to the funeral of the parent of another colleague. on the way home we were talking about how life is so much more of a rat race than even 10 years ago, and that if we only had time to just sit and be present with the people that we see every day.
it's not easy to live apart from this frantic information age.
Adam, Never mind the guilt trip Adam, I'm with Tammy on this one. You have laid bare a way of slowly dying that plagues too many of us in so many insidious ways. ah the prison of the 'leisure society' and the idolatory of all of us who regularly worship at the 'church of the eternal shopper'. Lord set us free & by your grace give us no rest until we wake up & can truly know your peace to live before we die! Thanks for the poem - I'd love to hear more poems here, Paul
Very powerful. Yes,..ignore the first criticism you recieved. Academic sounding nonsense by someone wanting to play Professor.
You've captured the essence of what Warriors often feel in the culture in which we reside today. Poetic expression extraordinaire.
You've given me strength to state aloud my own distractions and live freely and disciplied; rather than allowing myself to be a victim of a lesser life.
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Well, Adam,
Who's in charge of your life? Who makes the decisions to allow the life to be sucked out of you? Who decides each morning whether to have joy or sorrow, conflict or peace, prosperity or poverty, stress or conflict? YOU DO! There's no outside forces (including the most malicious demons) that can force you into depression...unless you let them. There is no being, either spiritual or physical, who can separate you from the love, joy, and peace of God...unless you let them. We live in a hateful, downtrodden, sinful world, and that's where we remain. If we allow the spirits who dominate this world to influence our thought processes, then it's easy to despair. But guess what? I bought the book and skipped ahead to the last chapter and guess what...the good guys win! God's alive and well! He's on the TV, He's all over the internet, He's in many local churches, and He's in you & me. If you have accepted His gift of eternal life, believed in His Son Jesus Christ, and asked to be born again, you have NO reason for despair...even if you're a starving artistic personality given to such moods. Get up tomorrow morning, be thankful that you are breathing. If you can walk and talk (many can't), give praise! If you can read (many more can't), get giddy thankful and read some Scripture. Walk with God. Talk with God. Then, when you feel like this ol' world is sucking the life out of you, laugh!! Laugh at yourself, laugh at the world, and laugh at the thought that a child of God, an adopted brother of Jesus Christ and an heir to the Kingdom, could feel that this poor lost world could make him feel bad. Then, go and have a GREAT day!
Posted by Leon | Posted at 11/18/2006 12:41 AMthis poem expresses what is in my soul often. just yesterday i traveled with a colleague to the funeral of the parent of another colleague. on the way home we were talking about how life is so much more of a rat race than even 10 years ago, and that if we only had time to just sit and be present with the people that we see every day.
it's not easy to live apart from this frantic information age.
Posted by tammy | Posted at 11/18/2006 7:12 AMAdam, Never mind the guilt trip Adam, I'm with Tammy on this one. You have laid bare a way of slowly dying that plagues too many of us in so many insidious ways. ah the prison of the 'leisure society' and the idolatory of all of us who regularly worship at the 'church of the eternal shopper'. Lord set us free & by your grace give us no rest until we wake up & can truly know your peace to live before we die! Thanks for the poem - I'd love to hear more poems here, Paul Posted by Loffers | Posted at 11/18/2006 12:53 PM
Very powerful. Yes,..ignore the first criticism you recieved. Academic sounding nonsense by someone wanting to play Professor.
You've captured the essence of what Warriors often feel in the culture in which we reside today. Poetic expression extraordinaire.
You've given me strength to state aloud my own distractions and live freely and disciplied; rather than allowing myself to be a victim of a lesser life.
Posted by Stander | Posted at 11/18/2006 10:59 PM