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"Soul Mover"
(by Glenn Hughes)
I am a soul mover
I came on here to make you groove
I am a soul mover
I'm making you want to move
And I feel it, yeah
And I feel it
Move, move, move, move, yeah."
In the quiet of the midnight air,
I hear the echoes of soul mover,
A whisper deep to my soul,
Calling me back to make me whole.
The road I walk, it twists and turns,
With every step, my spirit learns.
The pain, the love, they intertwine,
Like chords of fate that still align.
The truth is buried, yet it shines,
Through every note, in every line.
A melody of loss and gain,
Of broken wings and healing pain.
So let the rhythm make me groove,
Through skies unknown, no longer alone.
For in the music, I am free,
To be the man I’m meant to be.
In the back streets of my mind, I sail
in a sea of daydreams, my imagination
is sometimes free to run helter-skelter.
Thoughts of tomorrow haunt me.
It can be tough to navigate through
this head that thinks for me. There are
often traffic jams in the highway;
the railroad tracks visibly rusty
The footpath gets dark some days
so I walk it with a flashlight. But the days
are mostly sunny and bright. Memories
always bloom like flowers in spring.
They also swirl like a tornado
every now and then. When I rise
at dawn, a thought runs through
the backstreet of my mind...
"What's for breakfast?"
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Date: 02/06/2020
Date written: 09/26/2019
She watched, in horror
As the man hit the nail
The hammer was an enemy
The best she could tell
She observed a child
Emulate his father
With a tiny thwack
He hit another man's daughter
She heard the familiar sound
Of bang, bang, bang, as she began to run
Faster, Faster, til it blast her
Into a different place of...fun
She didn't have to create
Or invent the iron fence
Her senses were sharp and quick
To come, unbidden, to her defense
She gathered tools in her box
As everyone else her age
But she was rejected and belittled
Because she was missing a sage
No one just gathers tools in a box
And decides to use them at will
They must acquire knowledge
From an expert, it's part of the deal
.....of being a human
She was a prolific gardener
Even without the proper use of tools
Which infuriated the "right" folk
Who found it easy to be dismissive and cruel
Those who watched her
Saw her build connections
That outlasted violent storms
Of rebellious insurrections
Against the love
That enveloped her splintered soul
It took decades of invested loss
But eventually, her broken, became whole
She was granted a husband
And children to raise well
She decided to eliminate
Fear from the tools she held
She never noticed her children had gain
Where she had experienced loss
She just continued to walk it out
With her heavy, burdensome cross
One day, she saw the hammer
Lying in their box of tools
She realized her "ab" use
Of not adhering to the rules
....of building love in connection
............took the hammer in hand
.....................and tamed the tyranny of the insurrection.
Written by Trudy Schrader on 03-17-2019
Note: Today, I have found freedom on a whole new level :)
Born so old, so fragile, so wise
Born alone into the world
You miss your wife
She passed without pain
I'm sorry old man, that you left her so lonely
Shuffle through the corridors
She used to sit there and knit
Forget it she's gone
Cry at both of your pains
Throw that cane away old man, your arthritus is gone
Get back to your house
Your children are coming
They're all grown up now
Tell the wife to bring some drinks
You're young old man, but you're over the hill
Go sit in your office
Pushing papers for the man
Your teenagers are reckless
So don't be home late
Keep it together old man, they're just at the age
Slept in again today
You shouldn't be late
With a mortgage to pay,
A wife and a baby
It's okay old man, they aren't babies for long
Come home from the bar
To your bachelor suite
A little cologne sprayed
Maybe you'll get lucky
Take her home old man, she's had a little too much
You stole the car
Not old enough to drive
Try to be everything
But you can't be a hero
You're not a kid old man, but your voice is still cracking
Wait it out now
They're only bullies
Don't tell the teacher
They'll take your lunch money again
Walk it off old man, you're just not big enough
You can cry all you want
It won't make her come
She turned off the moniter
She couldn't stand you anymore
Take it easy old man, you can't even change yourself
You shouldn't move around so much
It makes her so queasy
Just a few more months
And you'll meet the world
Enjoy the womb old man, life only gets harder
Up north there are four seasons in a year…a fact that cannot be debated.
In Florida, however, those four season are more subtle and understated.
In fact, the seasons come to Florida in a kind of disarray…
It is possible for us to experience all four season in one day
We have no snow…our leaves don’t change color…most of them stay green
but take a walk with nature in March and you’ll see exactly what I mean.
Morning are still cool and breezy…a beautiful way for the day to begin…
but that same afternoon can be hot and humid…a sign that summer’s creeping in.
As you watch Spring and Summer duke it out…you realize…that’s not all
because every breeze in March encourages the oak tree’s leaves to fall.
You hear the wind from the safety of your house…upon your roof you hear a rain-like sound
because as the oak trees shed their leaves they are also raining pollen on the ground.
When rain mixes with the pollen on our houses, our cars and patios… it tends to make a mess
and though we love our oak trees…we curse their deciduousness.
At the same time of year the Oak Leaf Rollers show up…no that’s not a band
It’s the larvae of a brown moth…hanging from the oaks by a single silky strand.
It does’ t matter how carefully you walk…it really does’t matter what you do
when you get home…there’s a good chance you’ve brought a few green worms with you.
And just as there will be a few days in March when the heat and humidity makes you sweat
we’ll also have a few cold days…it’s winter reminding us she’s not done with Florida yet.
So on a morning walk in March…it might be cold or breezy or there might be humidity in the air
you might be wearing shorts or coats and you’ll have worms crawling in your hair…
All signs of how the season are more subtle here….how in Florida we find a way
to experience Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter…all in the course of a day.
I was in the room when Grandpa died although I couldn’t hear
his final words to Grandma…when he whispered in her ear.
I was too far away and her voice too soft and low
for me to hear what she whispered back…before she let him go.
But once the flood of sadness receded into a slow and steady stream
I asked her what they whispered that day…and immediately she beamed.
“Have I ever told you how I met your Grandpa? She asked.
She smiled, “Then let me now explain….
I was walking home from school one day and it began to rain."
Your Grandpa, grabbed my hand and said, ‘Come with me’.
And we waited out the rain under the shelter of a tree.
The first date we ever had was out to eat and a walk along the beach when
in the middle of our walk it began to rain…again.
There was something about the rain for us…something magical and pure
We couldn’t resist it’s beauty, it’s enchantment…it’s allure.
He asked me to marry him out in a downpour…
at first I thought he was insane..
‘I was waiting for the right moment,’ he said,
‘I was waiting for the rain'.
And then my grandma smiled and I could feel the love her smile contained…
The last words your grandpa whispered…he said…’I will miss the rain’.
And as he took his final breath and I knew his life was through…
I squeezed his hand and whispered back…I will miss it too.”
Now every time we visit Grandma…my family thinks I’m insane
when I look up at the sky and say…
“I hope we get some rain”.
“The person who follows the crowd
will usually go no further than the crowd.
The person who walks alone is likely to find
himself in places no one has ever seen before.”
Albert Einstein
How wide the gap until the dawn of spring,
till winter’s stage has fulfilled its reign.
There is no honest gain to a latchstring
which tightens the tedious chain -
the boredom of winter's restrain.
Heat turned up, doing sit-ups with my brain,
I stretch imagination's double chins.
Donning warm homespun, throw off winter's bane,
my mental locks engaged with needles and pins.
I walk it out; that’s where inspiration begins.
I’m from small town homes and rose bushes overgrown, with
Close-but-not-too-close-close-knit-crazies.
Where my best friend lives down the block and I make late night trips to her house past the town curfew, because I am from just inside the city limits.
Where I can’t drive underage in a non-road-legal vehicle on the road but I do it anyways.
From hydrangeas to big dead oaks with darkened limbs and forgotten branches. Unattended to hidden ponds with sand dunes keeping close company. Winding trails through the woven pines and golf cart rides through the night.
From two tracking at 2am, to popped tires riding on rims all the way home.
Bruised up and down and scratches I don’t know how I got.
I’m from sunday night football with crockpot cheesy potatoes
to rolling blackouts and chasing charter vans down flat onto our bottoms.
Muddy heels to get to the dance and paying seven dollars to watch my hometown football team lose.
I’m from where smoking our meat and video games in the garage is a party but we are the only company we need.
From corny jokes inside and out and witty humor, none taken. From where insulting one another is nothing but love and curfews are often a thing of the past.
Descending from lovejoys I am often filled with both love and joy,
I’m from oddballs and country folk yet we have evolved.
I’m from soccer games even when it’s raining. From no quitting all the way to you tried your best.
From high- highs and even lower lows.
I’m from the land of schnitzel, pickled beer, and pizza. From ‘go play outside’ and ‘walk it off.’ Nuts and bolts for christmas snacks to ‘honor thy mother and father.’ Sunday school lullabies and don’t use his name in vain, following all the common Godly precautions.
I’m from waking up early just to see the sunrise even though the trees are a war barricade from the burning fire you long to see. I’m from the fog that made my acres of yard an abyss that I can’t see through, even though I know what’s there.
I’m from family trips and a loving home, missing it when I’m gone and hating it when I’m there. I’m from supportive love and ‘can’t isn’t a word’. I’m from you can do anything if you work hard enough, and whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right.
Sometimes, what you find in a study can only be expressed in the way that you walk it out. Occasionally, one can attempt to explain in words what his recent studies have revealed.
Many things that we have already learned are no longer fresh, and yield much-to-be-desired for a fulfilling life.
I must say that when I chose Him to be the one in whom
I would chose to put my faith, I did not discover him through
study or research. Nor yet was it a religion that I submitted to, but rather a relationship to which I was drawn. It was face-value acceptance and His words that both arrested and captured me.
This then is my feeble attempt at communicating the present freshness that I am finding in Jesus Christ.
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He's busy, but never harassed or hurried.
He is more gracious than I ever realized;
More forgiving than I ever understood;
More merciful than anyone can imagine.
He doesn’t mind washing the feet of his followers.
He delights in serving, not taking from, his disciples; He's so practical that he likes fixing their breakfast.
Sometimes, he answers before we even ask the question.
He's more patient with me than I am with myself. He
gives me more of everything when I have nothing left.
He weeps with the weepers and reveals himself to the seekers.
He gets amazed with our faith, and races to our rescue.
He marvels at our doubts, and loves us no less.
He sleeps in storms and awakes when we call him.
He loves to bring peace and security to me.
He commands everything to be still in me.
He offers love to me and takes away the fear.
He gives me calm and poise, wiping away every tear. He causes me to clearly see, and quiets the storms at sea.
He calls men and women to forsake all and follow him.
He demands first place in our hearts. Who does this!!!?
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Masking the symptoms of things not understood
Burying emotion under deceptions hood
Hiding the truth suppressed deep inside
Painted on smiles with false assurance and lies
Walk it off be a man one is told to be the plan
But where to walk to and how be can be hard to understand
No one is immune to life's tragedies and mistake
Everyone has regrets and looks for ways of escape
Denial and drugs, music and sex
Rushing to each distraction while searching for the next
We try to do good, we want to do good
But can not sometimes because of things not understood
That is why the bible says
"Proverbs 3:5-6
1599 Geneva Bible
5 ¶ Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own wisdom.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy ways."
And Paul wrote in his own personal anguish
The words of every God fearing hearts languish
" Romans 7:19-25
19 For I do not the good thing, which I would, but the evil, which I would not, that do I.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but the sin that dwelleth in me.
21 I find then that when I would do good, I am thus yoked, that evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the Law of God, concerning the inner man.
23 But I see another Law in my members, rebelling against the law of my mind, and leading me captive unto the law of sin, which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death!
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Then I myself in my mind serve the Law of God, but in my flesh the law of sin.
Jesus sacrificed himself as our sin
To become our advocate and friend
As John explained there is hope still
To pull us back into Gods will
1 John 2
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not: and if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Just.
2 And he is the reconciliation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world."