On Living and Dying

When you live a life for God, He will honor you as you honor Him; When your life is built on the right things, God will bless you.

Cursed are the living, blessed are the dying.
The living live on in sin, the righteous pass away.
The righteous are sooner reunited with their heavenly Lover.
The living continue to heap ashes and coal over their heads.
She has lived a fulfilled life in God.
Whether she passes or stays on, she is secure in Him.
But those who live on each day, live without her,
How I pray for them–
The soldiers that are not relieved from battle,
Who still face temptation and are cut and bruised and tortured.

And yet, still, all life is held in God’s hands.
Who He takes and whom He does not,
No one knows.
And only He knows when and why.

For this we do not need to worry.
For He has His purpose.
And He is right and just.

True that I have never lost a man to death;
Known a person lost to death.
When that comes to pass,
I will see more.

But this I know for now.

Masterpieces

I’m young, standing at the top of a mountain, looking over a gorgeous sunset view, with a road stretching ahead for miles beyond the horizon. And as beautiful as I feel life is at the moment, I know that the hike will be and is beginning. Its not perfect and will not be– but that only makes the journey weigh more in value. If anything, working on my drawings has taught me that no matter how long and how tiring the process is, the masterpiece at the end is worth it.

We will be masterpieces.

I will not pretend I'm something I'm not.

Be and Do

While having a conversation with a friend:

"I don't want to live like that though. With most of life being drudgery and having that random 1% spark of awesomeness. I want to hold some secret delight in being. And we don't have to do to be. I think its a human mentality that if we work hard enough and do enough that we'll be somewhere, be someone. But that's where grace proves us wrong.

I delight in being. Cuz I be by grace.

Not that I"m saying not to do, but just that I need to remember that I am not because of anything I can do. And I will not because of anything that I will do."