Behind The Scenes

Things aren’t always what they seem
You’re only seeing part of me
There’s more than you could ever know
Behind the scenes...
I’m incomplete and I’m undone
But I suppose like everyone
There’s so much more that’s going on
Behind the scenes
-Lyrics,"Paper Heart" Francesca Battistelli

Father,
I ask you to help my blindness. I don't always see beyond the surface so I find that I've made assumptions and judgments that don't line up with your heart and the way you see. I'm not always as sensitive as I dream of being...and I fail to recognize the pain and insecurities of others too many times, therefore asking you often for second chances, opportunities to make things right. I need and ask for Your wisdom and love to flow through my life so I can not just tell folks about You but I can show them Your life through mine. There's soo much more involved with others than I could ever know but I desire to see beyond the surface, into the heart where You make all the difference, where things really matter. I am reminded that in Your life, I see light and it will embrace those who enter...Thank you so much for loving me! In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Life

When life brings us the roller coaster of emotions that its so famous for and its too hard to see past the most difficult days, let's all try to remember words like these and know there is hope.

Life Begins

Putrid smells of burning Earth
assault me as I wander,
as rotting flesh and wicked mirth
invade the thoughts I ponder.

Blackened dirt and blackened sky,
smothered by death's embrace,
bring out every rat and fly,
swarming at a devilish pace.

Stars look crimson in the light
from the river of flowing blood-
but in the horror of the night,
I stumble upon a bud.

A single growing shoot of green,
after years of barren land.
Is this real, what I have seen
and cradled in my hand?

I see it, touch it, and smell its leaves
to determine if its true-
that every dawn the dark recedes,
and life begins...anew.

written by: Amber Fortune