you will never know the value of being broken………….until you experience it…………….. you will hear of lessons learned from listening to others…………..and it is priceless…………but you cannot experience their brokenness…….you have to have you own……… when you are looking at your life and the pieces are scattered on the floor and you can’t seem to…

over the hills and through the woods life has run it’s course and i have been turned inside out and upside down and weathered it pretty well………through all of life’s challenges i have felt secure……..for i have always tested positive and for that i feel pretty good……………. that eternal spring finds a way to manifest…

i never had any expectations that things would work out like i planned………because i didn’t have any plans….. sometimes we don’t understand for lack of information and sometimes we don’t want to understand with plenty of information…… i had no ideas, you were wrong to assume……….people have a hard time accepting that someone is capable…

i know You……..i have seen You before………………….when i call……….. You are at my door…………..late at night as i stare at the sky…….i feel Your Presence by my side…………….i know You and i know You care about what i’m doing and how i’m living down here……………i know You, how You comfort me………and how You arrange opportunities…

it was easy to say that his emotions got away………..and left it questionable what he would do……………..but knowing that particular man…….there was only so much he could do………..a closer examination would begin to reveal the truth………..you weren’t afraid of him……………you were afraid …of you

i can’t breathe and the walls are closing in……..i see the sky above the water………but i don’t have the will to swim…..i feel myself falling and it never seems to end……..drowning…….drowning in myself……… i see images coming near me, dear and lost friends…….the ones that are gone call me to join them……..and the others grab…

”did you think it all the way through”…………………..i didn’t wait for a response…….i motioned to the bench and sat down by you…….i could see you were in a stitch………somehow your emotions got the best of you and you were embarrassed and wasn’t much to do……..but ride it out………. i offered a saying from an old…

much as we would like to say ”every day is a holiday” our mental frame gets in the way….most days end up being ”okay”………….. but we have those days that stick out in our mind and those are the days that gradually define the person we turn out to be……. ONE OF THOSE BOOKMARKS WAS…

stumbling through some notebooks of acts that never made it to the show………i am confronted with the realization……….it foretold where i would go……………i was so absorbed in capturing the feeling at the time, i was captured by the feeling……… the picture that they painted never crossed my mind……… time tinkers with our memories, our awareness…

until you finished what you started ………………everything else will be a waste of time……..you may feel that what you are doing in the end won’t amount to a dime…..but because you persevered that experience will take you to a place few will ever know…….because you kept your commitment………..when you finish………it will be easy to let…