Here at the Crossroads
The traffic light
Left or right
Right or wrong
I sing my song
At the crossroads
The intersection of my world
My life
Again
Have I seen this scene before?
No, not so much.
But it feels the same.
Same play on a different game
Different names
Different faces
Different places
But still a crossroads
A traffic light
Left or right?
Right or wrong
I sing my song at the crossroads
And the breeze
Sings with me
The trees
Dance with me
As my haunting melody winds a long and turning path
Around the crossroads.
The traffic light.
Left or right?
Right or wrong?
My song
Sings a simple question:
What awaits me beyond
The crossed roads.
And distantly
Vauguely
A voice barely heard
Whispers
A voice I know I’ve heard before
Or
At least once upon a time
A voice I know
A song I’ve sung
But the voice comes
Gently, unafraid.
Soft and still.
What matters what lay beyond?
You will find me in every step
Every stumble
Every jump of joy.
I alone await down every path.
And every path will lead to me.
I have a special place in my heart for Isaiah. When Greg Stier, president and founder of Dare2Share ministries told me and three thousand other people about Isaiah’s radical encounter with God in chapter 6, it won me to Christ. So I come back to this narrative all the time to remind myself “I’m ruined for Christ.”
But as I was reading it today something else occurred to me. Before now, I have always read Isaiah 6 as the prophet’s FIRST encounter with the living Spirit of God but that can’t be true. In ancient Israel, a prophet did not speak, he did not get up and address the crowd saying “thus saith the LORD thy God” without being anointed and already having an encounter. You see, according to the Law, a prophet MUST be tested and every prophecy weighed. If it is found lacking then the person who claims to have heard from the Lord is in all kinds of trouble. Which means no prophet would speak out unless he or she actually heard from the Lord and had at least some kind of encounter with him. Read more…
Time marches on
day after day
always
the same.
Tick tock tick tock
Echoes Father’s clock
as the seconds
turn into third and fourth and fifth
helpings of this dish
called time
and marches on.
Time marches on
and the colors shift and sway
from day to day
towards and away
life and death
from green to black
and back
and forth.
the more things change
the more they stay the same.
And time marches on. Read more…
So I’ve been camping out on Matthew 13:45-46 lately. It’s a really short passage that has been a freaking lighthouse beacon for me. I mean I opened by bible at random this morning to read something and that’s the page I opened up to. I didn’t really want to read it again so I picked up a different bible, opened to a random page and VOILA – the same passage.
Now my first thoughts on the matter were recorded on @pacnwdadof6 ‘s blog HERE. Basically I say that the kingdom is worth much more than my limited hopes and dreams. I mean I’m faced with a God who able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that I can ask or think and all I can dream and hope for is some career stuff? That’s pretty lame when you think about the God of the universe saying “what you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Read more…
“Write these words on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
So I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot more time at my computer than i do just about anywhere else. If that’s you too, then I want to share with you some wide screen wallpapers I made around the idea of writing scripture in places where you can see it and let it absorb into your spirit.
Option 1 is to go HERE. This is my Deviantart profile page with all my crazy and sometimes amateurish artwork.
Option 2 is to wait a couple of days for me to get my act together and put them somewhere on this blog.
Option 3 is to realize that I only have three wallpapers up right now and none of them include that favorite bible verse of yours that you simply have not found a good image for and then leave a comment asking me to make one for you. And hopefully I will. but no promises on that one.
Love and blessings folks!
Seiji
SDG
Here at the Crossroads
