Rubber Duckies (Part II)

Let's just lay and gaze at the stars
Forget the world
Just let it all go
Now that you're here with me
I don't want to let go

Please just stay, just stay where you are
The morning can wait
'Cause when you're here with me
I finally feel free

You've changed all I know
How can I better show
All that my heart needs to say
And words can't explain
What's here inside of me
I don't want it to fade away...

Let the rain fall down on us
Let it sweep us away
Just stand here close to me
There's nowhere I'd rather be

Stroke my hair
Kiss my cheek
We're lost in the ecstacy
You know when you're here with me
I finally feel free

You've changed all I know
How can I better show
All that my heart needs to say
And words can't explain
What's here inside of me
I don't want it to fade away...

Where we go from here
Only time will tell
But as long as you're right here
I'll lose myself in you

Quiet Chaos

Where am I?

Is this mine?

I don't think so.

I'd left all that behind a while ago.

Water dripping.

Constant reminder.

Puddles forming into oceans.

How does this make sense?

It doesn't.

And it won't.

So hold on and don't let go.

Quiet chaos in my mind.

What you can't see screams at you.

But you refuse to hear.

The fact that you're here means that there's more here for you.

Rubber Duckies

You shake my world.

I was so sure, so positive of who I was, what I wanted.

I always thought the puzzle pieces had to come from the same puzzle in order to fit together.

Yet everything about you is so incredibly beautiful.

You're just you,

striving more to be nothing but yourself.

And it's stunning.

You've shown me how to erase the hands of the clock.

I don't want to let time reign over me.

You've shown me what it looks like to live life simply.

And enjoy every moment of it.

And you may never see it,

but you teach me more and more about how to live like Christ.

What it means to truly be free of this world.

There's no going wrong when I know that the only thing you want for me is to be happy.

I just hope you see how happy I am when I'm with you.

Do not even Pagans do that?

You teach love so well.

Sermons, bible studies, daily devotionals, youth groups, vacation bible school.

You've created a system. From all the right angles, it's flawless. As innocent as a child's sing-a-long.

Jesus loves me this I know, for the bible tells me so.

You teach it like a text book.


And yet you're so good at outwardly displaying enmity.

It's no wonder that they all feel the same hatred towards you;
Abhorrence emanates off of you.
They learn it from you.

How can you hate someone who is worthy of Christ's love and sacrifice, just as you are? How can you rejoice over the slaughter of a human life? What makes you think we have the right to adjudicate what we think is justice?

Have you forgotten everything that you claim to be?

Christ came to show us to love and thus defeat the enemy. And yet, in so many ways you aid the enemy, all in the name of your God.

As I recall, Jesus preferred to spend his time here with sinners and tax collectors. Why is it so different for you?






"You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[a] and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?" -Matthew 5:43-48