Monday, June 1, 2009

Selah

I will not to blog again until the earliest, Friday, if not later. Next blog: Summary Reflections #2.

In the meantime, Do Not Be Afraid...

Do not be afraid to ask for what you need.
Do not be afraid to fall apart and free.
You just might get what you asked for
and you may find out who you are.

Jesus you are God.
You can do what you want
and you died for all of us.
I think it's crazy, but I'm starting to believe.

Do not be afraid to question your God.
He is not afraid. It's what he wants
for you to grow in knowledge of him,
for you to know that you can trust.

Jesus you are God.
You can do what you want
and you love me.
I think it's crazy, but I'm starting to believe.


...and Peace.

Broken conversations, broken people, we're broken Lord.
Terrified illusions, seeking comfort, we're seeking more.
We need each other more than we need to agree.
Father, Son, Spirit bless us with your love,
with your grace and peace.

Peace.
Let there be peace.

Let us see and not destroy. Let us listen. Let us listen.
Let us suspend judgement for the sake of love, for the sake of love.
We need each other more than we need to agree.
Father, Son, Spirit bless us with your love,
with your grace and peace.

Love.
Let there be love.


[Listen to Do Not Be Afraid and Peace.]

12 comments:

  1. TCM

    This is a very lovely poem. You really know how to write and that is a great talent. Thanks for posting this.

    Please visit my blog when you can. I would appreciate that. Thanks.

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  2. FJ,

    The poems are songs, and I did not write them. The links on the bottom will point you to the author/composer.

    I'll visit you.

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  3. TCM

    I am sorry. I really thought that you wrote this. Again, I apologize for my mistake.

    I hope that you are well and doing good. Take Care.

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  4. FJ: No apology needed. All is well! :-)

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  5. i've been reading your posts for the last 24hours... It has disturbed me how much i see of myself in all your situations.
    You relate to me all to well.
    I have SSA, and after just reading a few of your posts... i want to try this "blogging the journey" thing.

    Your insights have been challenging me, and your honesty is... well, it kinda feels like a pile driver to the chest. I want this journey. I want to see the kind of healing you've been seeing. I know i have time... but i don't want to waste it. I'm 19... i've been fighting SSA for 3 years. I have brothers that know, but no one like your Brother A.

    I need to know though: what has become of Brother A? Where did he go? i got the impression that the friendship disappeared... what happened?
    TCM, thank you for being unintentionally inspiring. I jealously want the boldness that i read in you. I want to grow, as you have...
    Sincerely- MG

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  6. You're not the only one who identifies with me. Several other men have contacted me through this blog and have expressed the same thing. I can only guess that many of us have very similar experiences. I'm glad you found me. When you are ready to blog your experience, let me know.

    As for Brother A, good question. Brother A is still very much in my life, but not in the way he used to be. My "need" for him lessened significantly over the past 2 weeks. We're talking and working out what this all means, and how to relate as we move along. It's a process. He still loves me just as much, and having him in my life is still very important. But the way I've needed him in the past is no longer there. In some ways, our "need" for each other feels more "equal" now, for lack of a better description.

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  7. ok, my first blog is up. finally.
    i hope it makes sense :)

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  8. TMC... How did you come to start using "boy-soul" and stuff like that, all to refer to yourself? How were you able to separate those feelings, and begin to tell what part of you was in control that day? How can you tell boy-soul apart from everything else?.... and how were you able to nurture him yourself?

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  9. TCM

    I am glad that all is well with you. I am looking forward to your next post on here.

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  10. I decided to leave the AB group :) haha. What a waste of valuable time.

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  11. MG: Sorry, I didn't catch your comment until now. Boy-soul is more like "inner child" work in psychological terms. It's not a science, more of an art. Usually, the inner child is more "child-like," more "emotional," more needy. Imagine your emotions that have been "trapped" at a young age. That's who boy-soul is. And I 'talk' to boy-soul much as I would 'talk' to myself. And boy-soul answers, not in a dissociative identity kind of way, but more as a child-like, hurt, stuck emotional center answers. It's inner child, or inner-vulnerable emotion work. I hope this helps.

    FJ: I've been really preoccupied with deadlines and family emergencies. I'll come back and write my summary reflections when I get a chance to breathe.

    GP: I'm sorry you left. I was happy to see you there.

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  12. Yeah, well. As the Lord himself said, 'A prophet is without honour in his hometown'. Not much use preaching to the converted when they think they know it already!

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