They’ve been waiting
Anticipating
This moment
Ready to move
High alert
Waiting
Anticipating
The feeble prayer
Forms in the heart
Barely makes it
To the lips
If at all
A mere
Seed of faith
Commotion
In the cosmos
“She asked!
We are moving in!”
The cogs begin to turn
Heaven moves earth
Surely help is on the way
© 2013 Julie Clark
Shaking and breaking
Down to the core
Until You are first in my heart
Forever more
Other wise
Anything else
With the blue ribbon prize
Will turn to dust
Before my eyes
© 2012 Julie Clark
Grief has been running rivers through my heart these past few days.
You left us early and with little warning.
Half a world away and more than ten years since I have seen you.
Yet, the weight of your impression on my life remains.
Your exuberance for life, your passionate love for your Savior,
And your gentle care for those around you nudge me in those directions.
You continue to make me want to live my life full of love and purpose.
Pieces of God
Treasures
Hidden in all the earth
Until we see them
And wonder how we had
Missed the evidence
Of their existence
Am I one?
With His DNA
Hidden like a diamond
To be discovered
In my heart?
© 2012 Julie Clark
Reflection in the lake
Makes me ache
For the beauty of the other world
I know is there
There are reflections of that world
Everywhere
But
The noise of the city
Can drown it out
The hyper-speed
Of our wired heart beats
Can skip us right past the beauty
Laid out for us
Like a table set for a banquet to begin
All that is needed
Are for the guests to arrive
And begin the feast
© 2011 Julie Clark
Receiving not grasping
Thanking not demanding
When I do this
It changes my heart
From self-centered, woe is me, how hard is my life stone
To warm
Glad to be alive
Gratefulness
For all I have
The beauty that surrounds me
(When I open my eyes fully to see it)
For those I love and who love me
Making room for more love and more gratitude
When I cannot be grateful for something directly
Because it is too painful and I can’t see its purpose
I can move around it being thankful for what I can see
And in the meantime my heart will expand to include more
And perhaps gratefulness for the good will dislodge the bitter weight of the evil.
It is more than looking at the world through a glass half full
What about thankfulness that the glass is half empty
There is room for more to come into that half empty glass
More opportunity to grow and to receive
Unfinished and limited am I
Yet still alive, ever-changing and growing
Ingratitude limits and restricts
Making the world smaller and harder
Pulling down into a spiraling vortex
Seeing without hope is a kind of not seeing
I will take rather the wings offered
To soar above
With the eagles
© 2011 Julie Clark
There are times
When what is required
Is a love so strong
So stout and unshakable
That it is beyond what my heart is able
This is where my heart
First needs to be the sponge
To soak up from the Source
All the love directed to me
And this is a great and eternal love
Unlimited
Then and only then
Am I able
With my expanded heart
To reach across
The glass shard broken relationship
In desperate need of this healing force
© 2011 Julie Clark
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