Tomorrow

Tommorow is the start of a new day
After tomorrow nothing will be the same
New life
More meaning
Different than the day before
How many new starts do we get?
Everyday.
Everyday is a chance to start over
To start fresh
Just don't take those thigns for granted
And live everyday to your best

The great girls

This is for all the great girls

When you don't show your skin
And you don't bat your lashes
Don't feel outlawed

When you raise your hand and give your opinion
When you outwit your comrad
Don't feel outlawed

When you know your purpose is great
And it seems there is no one to wait
Don't feel outlawed

When you are always the friend
And never the one
Don't feel outlawed

We don't have borders
And we don't have laws
We can have our families
And do mighty things for God
We can respect our men
And hold our heads up high
We can debate the latest topic
Without having to blink an eye
Boys will be boys
But men will be men
So just wait for the one
Who runs the race ahead

Wait for the man
Who is comfortable enough with himself
That his strong-willed Godly woman
Doesn't intimidate him
Wait for the man who is proud of you
Batman & Robin
Bonnie & Clyde
But instead of robbing banks
You rob the devil of lives

It's easy to only see what is right in front
But let me tell you
Give it time
You've both gotta grow up

Don't fall for the lines
And don't think you have to be the
"Preachers wife"
Because if God's will be done
He will handle it
Don't live in strife

:)

Lift your head up and look ahead

There are times in the every day life when one wonders, "What's going to happen next".
Usually we are so caught up in the daily routine that we fail to see beyond today.
What would happen if someone were to show us a specific life-changing event that would happen say...
Three years from now?
How would you live differently?
As the days go by
I realize that as many things there are that can be judged by today
There are some things that you just have to wait for
Some things you wouldn't even want today if given the oppurtunity
I think we all should yes, live life one day at a time
Not trying to fix things we have no control over
But at the same time
Look foreward to the grand plans set before you
Regardless if you know what they are or not
Because how sad
To Believe that there isn't anything more out there to live
No more to conquor
No more conquests to fulfull
No more love to be had
Lift your head up and look ahead a bit
You may be surprised with what comes your way

The homeless man has my Bible

So I'm staying at my aunt's house til Wed. and I decided to go for a walk to a mall not far away and get some fresh air and see what was going on in good ol' Burbank. I was walking through a park and there was a homeless man sitting on the ground with a stereo playing and God told me that I was going to give him my Bible. I was thinking...nah, He doesn't want me to give him my Bibe. Then I remembered, oh yeah, I got another Bible a couple of weeks ago at a retreat I went on...but this was MY Bible, I had everything highlighted and all that good stuff and then it was like, well then how much better...if all the "good" stuff is highligted for him. So...on my way back to the apartment, I see the guy but this time he's talking to a bunch of other guys and I went up and I introduced myself and I asked him if he had a Bible. He said no. I gave him mine. Then he proceeds o tell me abou† this program he's part of that feeds hømeless ånd gives away clothes. We chatted for a little bit and that was it. Now he has my Bible and I hope he is able to do more with it then I did.

Summertime

So...I'm done with my spring semester of LIFE. Weird. I just moved in 5 months ago and here I am moved out and trying to figure out what to do with life. I feel like I might actually miss these people. That in and of itself is something I haven't really experience since my best friend moved away to Texas. I didn't even feel that way when I moved away from my family who I've lived with for 20 years. I'm actually happy about it. I've never had an emotional need really to have anyone around except God and because of that, I haven't had very many close relationships. I talk to people when I want to and other than that, I tend to just leave people alone. Thank God for healing hearts. I feel like a lot is going to happen this summer. I'm living with a puertorican/mexican christian family who is bringing up a church and I'm going to be playing drums for them. Strangers basically. But what's funny is that because of our faith and being able to relate on a culturall level, we're basically family already. haha.

IThere are many things that have to be done...mostly financially. I want to focus on God this summer and allow Him to show me His glorious works in this world. The small and the big. The things I've never felt the need to notice and the things I wish I hadn't. I have grown this past semester and I can't wait to see what God has for me next.

Please do what you always do...

God,
There is this problem I'm having
And usually it is taken away
Maybe this is different because I haven't allowed the mind to wander
In which case I would think
Would make it that much easier
I'm following You
And listening to You
Even as I write this
You are saying
"Don't worry about it"
So I hand it off to you
As with so many other things I do
Thank You in advance
-Bert

A great realization...

You know how sometimes...well for me, most of the time
You can know something in your head but not in your heart?
Well all of my life I thought I understood
How God felt about me
I knew He loved me
And that he wanted the best for me
But never anything like this...

I went to a retreat this past weekend and it was full of love...
From people I didn't know
People who have been praying for me by name and people I will never meet
People constantly giving me gifts and words of encouragemt

They did this to help give me a physical representation of God's unconditional love for me
That there is nothing I can do to make Him love me more
And there is nothing that can make Him love me less
He just loves me
The way I am
Regardless of the screw ups
That He will do ANYTHING He needs to in order to make my relationship stronger with Him

Of course I had to accept that
That was the hardest part
Realizing that I really had no concept (and still don't really) of the amazingness of God's love
And just sort of learning to deal with the fact that He is God and pretty much unconceivable
Accepting His love and gifts for me
And not being afraid to ask for the things He already knows are in my heart

A great realization
To my heart and soul
To the purpose of my very existence
To the knowledge of a God who has agape for me