For a new generation...

"He commanded our ancestors to teach them to our children, so the next generation might know them--even the children not yet born--that they in turn might teach their children. So each generation can set its hope anew on God, remembering his glorious miracles and obeying his commands." Psalm 78:5-7, NLT

"He who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks--it is opened." Matthew 7: 8

"He who seeks to make footprints and do sublime things is a failure. A self-conscious poser is a loser. Let self intrude and the whole is spoiled. Excellency is proportioned to the oblivion of self. A fisher for compliments has lost God. Self-consciousness must go. We are too conscious of the other fellow, we need a God-consciousness. Humility, not infallibility, becomes fallen creatures. Infallibility is the apex of Satan's proposition to man. The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength. Receding guns vanish out of sight after firing and so must we, for safety. WE NEED TO BE BROKEN!"

--Frank Bartleman

I am crucified with Christ--nevertheless--I live! Yet, not I, but Christ lives in me! The life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loves me and gave Himself for me."

Galatians 2:20

So I say, live by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.... For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature! If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law!
...Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit!

Galatians 5:24,25

The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature he will reap destruction, but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life!

Galatians 6: 8

"Laughter is carbonated holiness."

--Anne Lamott

Truth and People

"We might not have time to pursue every dream, so we must choose to spend time on what's important. Successful people learn to eliminate nonessentials, those things that won't matter ten years from now. We saw earlier that only two things will last forever, truth and people. Invest your life in those things that will outlast you."
--Tommy Barnett

My dream...

Lord, give me a dream
A very large dream
That is so enormous
It cannot be contained.
A dream so very large
It cannot be controlled by me,
Maintained or grown by me,
And may it outlive me by 1000%.

May your gifts to me be multiplied
And invested wisely
To build your dream.
To please your heart.
To bless the world.

May the castle of my imagination
Be a place where your glory can dwell.
And may your word take root in me
And bring forth the riches of Christ
That give life to the world.
Amen.

Jesus lead on....

"To know and follow hard after You....
To grow as your disciple in the Truth....
This world is empty, pale, and poor
Compared to knowing you, my Lord.
Lead me on... and I will run after you.
Lead me one and I will run after you!"

Lord,

You have been a dwelling place throughout all generations.
Before the mountains were born or
you brought forth the earth and
the world, from everlasting to everlasting--you are God!

Psalm 90:1,2

Who Pursues Whom?

Have you ever wondered why all those creatures in Revelation had so many eyes? They could literally not stop worshiping Jesus day or night. So mesmerizing--this lover of our souls. It is impossible to not be touched and moved by Him. It is torture to even look away when one with Him who encompasses our very being. Lock eyes with Him. From glory to glory we are changed. His love unfolds in waves that wash us, flood us, and utterly transform us in a heavenly way. All the while we are still on earth.

Bride of Christ. Love your lover. Who pursues whom? He has already made His move.

To worship= to reach up and kiss.

Let Me Grow (Let Me Go)

Anger
Frustration
Miscommunication
Sedation.

Hear me.
I hear you.
Can’t change me.
Can’t change you.

Please stop.
I can’t absorb it now.
I don’t want to know what you think right now.
Please stop.
It is more than I have patience for.

Let me grow.
Please leave me alone.
I want memories, not advice.
Please leave me alone.
Unless you want to just be.

Don’t speak.
It is not the time
Nor the place.
Trusting is believing.
Believing means knowing
That all will be well.

All will be well.

Rest, child.

Rest, child.
Rest.
The winter is coming.
The earth is now sleeping.
The snow is now falling.

So rest, child.
Rest.
In the arms of another.
The arms of your Lover.
Please rest.

This time is for knowing.
For trusting.
For growing.
So rest, child.
Forever, please rest.

Her name.

How glorious is the princess within her chambers.
All her garments are interwoven with gold.

Princess.
You are lovely.
Protected.
True.

One of grace.
Compassionate.
Fierce.
Merciful.

Soft hands.
Strong heart.
Dedicated.
Just.

The king is enthralled by your beauty.

Oct. 23, 2005

What is your dance?

I dedicate this link to Jennie Turton and Elyse DeGrazier and all the girls in my small group as well as Laura Ennis (who I danced crazily with in the kitchen last night) who I pray will forever have the faith, hope, and love to dance through life with much grace!

http://music.yahoo.com/vid-2152420--I-Hope-You-Dance

Go to:

Music videos
My videos
Type "I Hope You Dance" in the box that says video search
Click "go"
Click on the link at bottom that says "I Hope You Dance" to watch the video.
There will be a couple of quick 30 second commercials and then the video!

White

Innocence
In an age of fraud.
Of passing to maturity
Before one’s time.

Child of Light.
There is no need to go.
No need to hide.
You are radiant in your brightness.

Casting warmth.
Dispelling fear.
Encouraging growth.
You are mine to behold.

Silent and knowing

Your eyes invite

Me

To know you.

You are a sight to behold.
Standing in the moonlight
With glory in your eyes
The starlight in your hair.

You give me your life.
I give you mine.
One passion.
One heart. Fair.

Time has stilled for us tonight.
Let us then be filled with light
From glowing embers
Hot and white.

Undone.
Let me rest with you
Till morning.
One.

My dear.

the heart

Well, how can I tell what I only hope to know?
How can I taste what my eyes refuse to see?
How can I let myself trust what I don’t rely on?
The heart? The deceitful heart.

You say a heart redeemed can counsel in the night.
But how far redeemed can it be to be perfectly right?
I know my heart deceives me and so I do not trust.
The heart. The hopeful, hopeful heart.

Is this wrong? Too protective? To guard the wellspring of life?
How does one remain open and vulnerable while guarding this well?
Is it a picket fence instead of the grand cement wall
That encumbers me.

I remember that there was a door.
They said their sister was not a wall anymore.
But a door that at the correct time could be opened.
And thus it is so.

My heart is a door. So opened or closed.
Swinging shut for protection or open for air.
Sunshine is welcome, but the elements protected
From the sweet, underlying hopeful, counseling, redeemed deceitful heart.

2005 Sarah Weichhand

Armor of Mine

Truly, truly I say unto you...unless a kernal of wheat die, it can never produce fruit....

Armor of mine.
Protective Barrier,
Keep out the elements.
Protect my insides.

Jesus save me. Only You.
Change me.
Form me from the inside out.
Let the tomb of bright expression
Press into the sunlight
As the darkness longs for You.
And I long too.

To Sarah on her 25th birthday...

? What is relevance ?
Is it mindless conformity of fitting in with what is popular or is it over the edge thinking that paves a way for a believing world....

Hate nothing but evil and apathy. Think for a change. Turn your light on. Brighten your world. Learn something-- be thrilled with academia. Live for Light! Seek freedom for your heart and your mind. Do not be chained in slavery to what you've always been told. Real Truth can stand for itself. If you seek it you will find it. The Truth is out there. It is an unchanging reality. It speaks to, lives in, and transforms those who choose to be molded by it.

Find something worth dying for and live for it with all your heart. What happens today is built upon yesterday and next week will be built on tomorrow, so don't live in the apathy of today, but delight yourself in the present and believe with hope for the future.

Most of all, love and be loved by others. Love changes us. Find people who will unconditionally accept you and model this kind of love to the world. Love heals, protects, and woos. Real love never fails.

Friend in my eyes...
You are the one.
Friend in my eyes...
I'll take your hand
And off we will run!

We'll run through the snow
And we'll share all that we know...
About angels and visions and prophets of old
Stories of God that remain to be told
Under blue skies and in valleys below!

-Dakota Motor Co.

In the Name of the Father and the Son

Suspension. Obsession.
This container: explosive.
Your power is held within.
A boiling mass of churning words
Won't form.
Anger. Missed its time.
From fear to pain. Fear to pain.
Rage inside. Hate inside.
(You know he knows better.)
Wait inside. Wait inside.
Looking for Truth, he found an answer.
You know he knows better.
But pain inside. Slain inside.
Open your eyes. Daylight is coming.
On the horizon--a new day.
Open the door to your pain.

Betrayal. Come anger.
That demon--it chained him.
The darkness...it told him would love and enfold him.
But you found a struggler and now it is over.
He found it a comfort, but you found him in pain
Floodlights expose him.
Turn the lights on, but hold him.
You know that he's fighting for love--so give it away.
(He knows you know better.)
And truth cuts like a knife.
Control can't hold you.
There's no fight for grace tonight.
Surrender.
You know it is better.

So open your eyes. Your freedom is coming.
And tomorrow a new day. So welcome it in.
Won't you open the door to your pain.
Your healing will come if you open the door to your pain.
The new day will come when you open the door to your pain.

--August 2004
Sarah Weichhand