Missing

Exaltation
Adoration
Devotion
Connection
Emotion
Motion
Commotion

As we are born
You breathe life into us
Your breath of life sustains us
As we search for You.
The very breath we breathe
Demands praise
And yet we suck it back in
Keeping it to ourselves.

We look upon creation
Uttering awe at the splendor before us;
eyes not seeing.

We hear the sounds of life around us,
Holding our breath to get a better listen;
ears not hearing.

We drink in and taste all that is good,
Our mouths watering with delight;
mouths not tasting.

We reach out with desire to hold and touch,
Aching for contact, longing for connection;
bodies not feeling.

You are in it all
Yet we see You not.
We can't hear Your voice
Above the commotion.
We refuse to drink You in
Our mouths are stuffed to silence.
We reach for everything but You
And fill our hands with dust.
Always coming up with empty arms,
starving mouths,
deaf ears.
blind eyes.

Open us up to You.
May we see You all around,
hear You everywhere,
taste Your goodness,
rest in Your arms,
Love, and be loved.

Reach

Connection; Communion
The world spins and rotates on it axis,
Two worlds collide,
one within the other all along,
and we dance a lover's dance
As we see You.

Lighting the dull pathways
Bringing beauty to the streets
Lifting us out to shine us up
And placing us back into darkness
to Shine.
Reaching through
our hands, our feet,
our lips, our breath.
Ever reaching
Always going
Beyond ourselves
To You.

Here

people moving,
working, sounding
resounding
Cry "Yes!" we are
Here.
we are
Alive.

Salty Flavor on the lips
drink in the Aroma,
breathe out the
Fragrance.

He is not Here! He is Risen!
And we are
Here
Alive within,
In Him.

we resound YES!
cringe, cry
reach out and
pull back.
mud on our faces
but Light remains.
He is Here.
We are
Here.