Wanderer

I am a wanderer this is what I've known
Going here and there, pretty much everywhere
This life is a blessing but also a deep challenge
For I desire to explore but also have a home

But then I am remided that home is not a physical place
It is a state of my heart as I trust God and follow his path
Right now it seems to be taking me to random places
But these places are where my heart and my faith are being grown

This is a priceless concept for me to comprehend
All the lessons and gems I am to hold in an open hand
No matter where I am, there is my Lord
Revealing more and more of his beautiful will for my life

I'm learning to be ok with not knowing tomorrow
With setting this heart of mine on pilgrimage
With only one desire to know my God deeper
And live with his people in open, honest fellowship

May this life be a selfless offering to you my Lord
May I know what it means to truly serve and love
May I be able to step out of my comfort zone
And embrace a life being lived in the unknown

Improv of the Heart

I sit here and write not sure where it's gonna go
but one thing I know is that my heart is heavy
full of passion, excitement, and often of pride
with a growing desire simply to know

To know the heart of another
To enter into their stories of hurt and shame
of laughter and joy and memories so vague
this is life; to know and to be known

how hard it is to let another in
yet how badly we want to be understood
how badly we want to be valued and loved
but without the risk of the ugly being exposed
we can never truly be loved at all
we can never truly be known

oh heart of mine, face this fear
enter this time with confidence and trust
that he who formed you is right and good
for this is your life, may it be understood

Quotes to Ponder

Rainer Rilke quotes:

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions”



“Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.”


“Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.”


“...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”


“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it”


“When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.”