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Spoken Word: Confessions
Here’s another poem! This one was put together using chunks of things that I’d written in my journals over the span of several months. When I put them together it all seemed to fit. Funny how God makes things work together like that. The video is me performing the piece at LifeLight, and the words are below. You knit me together in my mother’s womb Intricately created me hazel eyes brown hair hands like my dad. And You called me good. And following You was like dancing. Not the kind where you have to learn the steps. But the kind where you just move because there’s music playing. Or like…
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Spoken Word: Rain
I wrote this poem for a precious friend of mine. I hope it encourages you as well. Here’s the video of me sharing the poem at LifeLight, with the words to the poem below. “I just want to enjoy the rain again,” Says the woman who’s been drowning. Momentary troubles lasting far too long until they’ve seeped into every crack and crevice of her once firm foundation this level of saturation seems hard to withstand even while holding Jesus’ hand because her arms are tired of dangling off this cliff of uncertainty saying “I know God has good plans for me… but what if He doesn’t?” because, let’s face…