considerations from benjamin button

a new leaf, a new page…
or is it?
another trap, another cage…
time, it’s what life is made of…
but if time is money
i don’t feel like my debt’s been paid off…
instead life is more than time…
and time more than money
and yet―sometimes―a life stops. or (even) turns, on a dime…
to know he was leaving, made her love him…
for staying
and when he left, she thought his love dim…
but his love trusted hers and she proved…
to the end (of life, time, money)
that a heart can’t be uprooted, simply moved…

for a heart in a cage lives with hope of a green leaf
and a heart in a trap lives to prepare a white page

and yet this same heart―on the best of days
in the most precious moment―truly lives.
to pause time at that time, people would pay money
since that is when they feel alive.
they say, “my life is worth something. to somebody.
more than time, more than money.
my life is worth living―because love prevails.”

(written after seeing "the Curious Case of Benjamin Button" on Dec 29, 2008)

apostle John again (written this summer in Canada)

are you my match.
are you mine.
can we serve Him together.
can we know Him
i love you so much.
my love is from Him―
overflows and outglows
since His love (He IS love)
overwhelms me greatly.
HOW GREAT the Father’s love for us.
that WE should be called HIS CHILDREN!!
yes we’re together.
yes i am yours and you are mine,
but holding together―
the source of all our joy―
it’s the One,
He’s the Way, the Truth, the Life
and the glue holding us and all together―
Christ Jesus the Chosen One of God.

two things (nov 29, 2008)

i'm longing to encourage you
you're so downhearted and distraught.
but with a touch of realism too
i understand the problems -
so a surface smile is problem still unsolved.

and money, i dont have much, but what i can i'll give
even there though, a few thousand may buy a car and compy
but it wont fix the economy and it wont last long

id give you my time - you need more,
but something tells me that the more i give
the less you'll have and, for now, the best way to give you more time
is to keep mine all to myself.
the best thing for you is to keep to myself.
the best way to sustain your grades is to contain myself.

id give you a plan, future plan, youd like it, i'd like it
but if not from Him its vanity - meaningless.
and to plan, and then backtrack is pulling teeth, while waiting is learning

and i want to help you, to lift you above, to hold
but im weak and i have nothing to offer naught but these:

a prayer
and a hope.

both to the LORD.
both for the future
and He knows them, way back when, before i knew you, before i knew HIm, He knew this prayer. and He knows His fulfillment of my hope.