Graceful Dreams

Butterfly, pretty
little butterfly. So colorful,
so full of life,
so beautiful.

Hello, butterfly. I enjoy
seeing you float above me, so daintily.
Hard to believe
you were so recently just a little
catepillar,
just winding yourself up and hoping
for the freedom
wings would someday provide.

Look at you go.
Good for you, little
butterfly! Push forward
and continue the journey
for a life you always dreamed
to have.

I wish I could fly
with you into the clouds,
soaring
over the rest of the world.
You ignore thoughts of tomorrow
and have no need to see to next week--
I wish I could fly
with you to a place so clear
and free from worry. Take me home
with you to the meadow.

Pretty little butterfly, flutter
away. Go see the world
and send me the images of the beauty
you have seen. Please, butterfly,
linger a little longer,
but when you leave I'll watch
until you float
out of view.

Love endures

As I write about two characters that realize they love each other, it's interesting. This thought of love and how people will do such silly things when it has to do with someone they love. It's a beautiful thing. Yes, beautiful I called it. Love is doing things you never imagined you'd do. Love is trust, kindness, passion, honesty--even when it hurts. So I write about two characters and their interactions with each other. I laugh and cry as I imagine what things they are about to go through, all because they know love.

It's not easy. Romantic comedies make light of the pain, but still show that the people involved are not perfect. I enjoy them because they let me see how unexpected feelings can drive a person.

LOVE. :-)

Love is God. God is Love. God is so amazing to be so loving even when each of us struggle at some point with that fact. He loves us so completely. Unyeilding. It's breath taking.

I've learned so much about God's love lately. So much about His passion for each of us. Wounds of my past He takes from me. Washes me, comforts me, tells me to never think of them again. He draws my hands up to Him and through the song I sing my Lord surrounds me, engulfs me, in his Holy Spirit. As I walk through the day I feel His comfort on me. I feel the intoxicating passion of Love. His Love. I've never felt anything like it in my life, and I know I'll never feel anything better. This is the best kind of love. This is love I can never again live my life without.

Love can make you a better person. You want to lay down your life for someone you truly love, and slowly He is showing me how to do that. It won't always be the easiest, but with the Lord I will be able to endure anything. Daily I must remember to pick up my cross and lay down my life for Jesus, the One who first did this for me. For I was decaying and He brought me back through love. My heart forever belongs to Him, and no one else. I love you, Lord.

No News Isn't Bad News

I haven't heard from the magazine competitions I entered, but they have until the end of June to get back to me. I'm hopeful becuase I know one in particular will not leave you without an answer. Just knowing that it's almost mid-June and I haven't heard no yet means either I'm at the bottom of the stack or I'm on the list of possibilities. I'm going to go with the second one.

In other news, I've been bad and haven't been writing for the past week. I think I need to start my word limit a day again. I was on it when I started that. Starting today, 250 words a day again. I think this just needs to be a daily occurence anyway. I'm happier, my brain is clearer and I get great ideas down onto paper or in the computer.

No news on any of the jobs I've applied for yet either. I know God has a plan for me, so if these don't work out obviously that wasn't my path. I can feel that the Lord has something, but the actual physical description of what it is I don't know yet. I'm getting that excited feeling again though, like when He moved me to Mississippi for my senior year. And like the time I decided to go to MSU rather than a Texas school. It especially feels like the time when I left Housing, a little bit sad because I had a lot of fun there, but really excited about all the great possibilities of life. :-)

Tonight I write! So many novels to write, so little time.