PRIDE??

Sometimes I wonder about pride.

It is a sin, is it not? 

When I’m in trouble or some kind of oppression, I look to God.

I wonder about him and who he is to me and how he can help me.

 I try to imagine him and a bible verse which says ‘Lebanon is not sufficient....................for a burnt offering.....behold the nations are a drop of a bucket and are counted as a small dust of the balance.......comes to mind

That is my God, my great God who loves me and crucified His son for me.

 I then take it for granted that as His word said, He is walking beside me at all times (he will never leave you or forsake you). 

So I walk tall and when the enemy tries to stress or worry me, I just tell him who I am walking with.

 Is that pride?

CONFUSION

Is it the way he smiles?

Or the way he flexes.

Is it his smirk when he’s being vile?

Or the way frowns when he’s vexed.

Is it how much he spends?

Or how much he shows off.

I think not.

Let’s try again

What about the look he gives you

When there’s no one else around?

Or the tingle on your skin

When he caresses the small of your back?

Does it matter that he remembers

Things that are special to you?

Or is it just a ploy to get you

To commit atrocities against you?

I think not.

Maybe this will do it!

It is who he is when he cries,

When he lets it all out.

Leans on you and tells you it hurts.

Its who he is when you hurt.

Kisses your forehead and tells you

It will pass and till then

He’ll be there.

Is that it?

Nah!

It’s all of these things.

Some in small doses,

Some in large does,

That’s all.

LOVE LOST

For us

I thought of

So many things you don't know about

A different love like that ....

So I never want to lose you ...

Hot pearls on your face

Tears that I will gather -

You will smile

Amidst my fresh promises,

You will hear these words of mine,

already honest.

The two of us like this, turning our backs on the world

Here facing a sunset,

You will listen to

The sound of life stretching away peacefully

and you will understand.

Dark summer storms

Remain a nonexistent memory

And I will hear

Sounds in the sunset, now

It's time to stay with you

Here and now,

holding each other tight

not to part again

if that is what you want.

For us,

you know,

from afar I caressed

a different love like that,

still thinking of you .....

softly you opened

your coral lips on

WRITTEN BY SHINA JOHN