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Most times our memory of love is a love sweeter than it’s reality. But that’s what love does it hopes, and creates these images of perfection, so when you think back on it you never remember how painful it was for you to crawl out of there. All you remember is the pretty moments you have framed.❤️ We need to let go, God doesn’t pour new wine into old wine skins.

There’s always that one song that brings more memories than it needs to. Love is such a funny thing, it has us attaching all these complex emotions to inanimate things ❤️

This is a repentant prayer David makes after some bad choices. While he can’t change his actions, he can change his heart, he says “create in me a pure heart LORD” and that’s what repentance is. It’s going back to the cross and saying Lord I can’t change what I’ve done but please change ME so I don’t do it again.❤️ So if you’re in a season of waiting for assurance, restoration. This Psalm is for you🫂❤️

This poem has no resolution. No happy ending, no philosophical summaries, no ted talks.. we just feeling what we feel and that’s that

No words for this one except love shouldn’t feel like this

“Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering” Isaiah 53:4. One thing for certain he will carry your cross, one thing for certain Christ will always carry the burden for you. My beloved, I could lasso the sun and hand it to you, I could rearrange the stars to spell out your name but I could never love you how God loves you. As we close off the year, let’s thank Christ for taking our pain.

I have spent a good chunk of this year wollowing, and wilting. I was so stuck in the past, keeping tally of people who have hurt me. Refusing to move from that space and trusting Christ, I didn’t trust him as my shepherd. So I remained in the same spot, turning into a pillar of salt. This new year may we build the muscle of faith, that what God has in store surpasses anything my simple mind could conceive.

“But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭25‬ If you’re waiting for your Love just take a breath and be patient. Do not awaken love until the time is right, when Love comes it will be in Gods divine and perfect timing, it will be effortless, it wont bring confusion, it wont bring hurt. Love never fails, hold onto that hope of finding it

One thing is that they always come back. But we stand firm in our decision, we trust that God only has better in store for us. Most importantly we NEVER go back to things God has removed us from.

I think its time we learnt how to choose people who see love the same way as us. Teach your feet to leave when love isn’t reciprocated.

Learning curves require learning a new skill, who would have thought that skill is to simply exist in Gods peace. Its so easy to use it as a novelty, something we post on our stories and not a conscious decision we make with every breath.

We search endlessly for love, unfortunately it has to be the one that finds us. The moment we stop looking there she is popping up out of nowhere.

Today we unwrap what it means to thirst for God while your soul is burdened. In Psalms42 King David says to “My tears have been my food day and night” he goes on to paint this picture of agony and being downcast. But he encloses it with the fact that he will continue to put his hope in God. That in our sadness it is when we are thirsty for God. So this poem is all about yearning for God in the midst of our pain.

How does one learn how to exist within peace, when all you've known is destruction. At some point we have to realise that we've operating through trauma; its time to deconstruct that and learn how to live a life that isnt constanly on fire.

One of a million letters and prayers I write to God, it’s okay to sometimes lose our way. But Christ will always find us and we go back, you are the one sheep he left the hundreds for. Thank you for your support once again