Nails once tarnished

Shine bright

He ment to set the captives free 

Break the chains and make us see

Rising up against the doubt

At 22 I learned he loves and lives. 

Little one who fell long ago  

In Silence lost, the world's spell

Give her a voice and make your glory glow
Expose the darkness let the truth show

From wanting to be a woman

From wanting to be strong

She lost herself self.  

Put her faith on the shelf. 

Pages of a journal that needed to breathe

Swing the door wide open now
Absence builds the longing.
The father calls a heart forgotten 

A Song of God in victory
 A Desert woman's story

Drawn to the beloved

Sing for all that's wrong

Sing for all that's free

Only in Christ can we really be.

Let me store up my love

Belief in the unseen

From wreckage I glean 

To be everything opposite of you.

Tornados on tongues
Sunday Morning

Loss of control.

To the missing parts

two hearts will cleave 

Love birthed from tears.  

Healing that wipes away fears.

Shake up the need

Faith that explodes from the seed.

 I'm lost at your feet.  

I ran a race i could not beat.
The wonder of a holy plan.

In you alone I grow

Keep the fire stoked
To push the plow.

 Blow wisdom from hands 

Worked to the bone, on empty
Call forth strength

The harvest is plenty.  

The Journey

Told me I was too young to know

Anything about life. 

Made dreams out of fears. 

Can't separate me from the call.

While you were hollow of heart 

I ran within.   

Words were harsh

Stoned to the ground 
Abandoned to need.

But I crawled from the rubble  

Back to where i belong.

Plane ride calling me home

Tell me now what didn't happen then

Revelation parts  all the lies

Long paths walked alone 
Waiting on an end with cheeks that stain

Dark night of the soul cries.  
Come and find me in the rain.

Seasons make it beautiful

I learned to cry  before i could fly

Beat of my soul that made me whole 

You keep me from lonely.  

Sun blazing on the parts I lost  
Hold it in the light now
Love  sings solemnly

Knowing you had an equal cost.

But I pray still that you are my only

I die to myself so i can live again 
Child set free by words that mend.

Losing ourselves to have more of God ... it's an art. To be recklessly abandoned is to receive more. So in love with the Lord. I pull myself away from his presence. I sit speechless. :)

Holy Fire
Come and burn
Things that were and things that are,
Make the future bright.
Set free by love
Blood as jealous as death
But scarifice and loss
The gifts we do not own
Nor deserve the place he took.
Coming to nations to cleanse
To lead, to inspire
To grow his kingdom
The message sent
With reluctance I told
But now the fire and passion
Bring me to my knees
Words that spill
from a heart appeased
Reward is peace.
- Drea

Eclipsed by Romance

How do religious ideas capture one? Through the way God's presence effects one's interior. Through religion we  sense or taste for the infinite. God is an experience. The  thing you would die for speaks to mood and emotion.  We follow God because our ability to understand his love, not out of  religious duty. Something about our encounter with God is different.  What did your experience feel like to meet him? Like the ocean ... there is something more that transcends . God is this feeling of something that envelops and fills us. 

- Ponderings from my Christian Tradition Class

Last Plane

Presenting ... Andrea Kelly Urso Original Work:

Miles away.   

Didn’t have to fly that far
Last plane, Last try 

I wonder where you are.

Drenched in all they could steal.

Time and place did not heal.

Thought I needed to fight.

Well won't hurt for the things i can't control anymore

Just tell me that i'm enough  

My heart is frail but my skin is tough

Come unbind me so more

All I need to keep forward,

Is all you've given me ,as I restore.

I couldn't forge the strength to put it back together

But your a mystery that binds me

Now I feel safe

Cause i'm  home for the first time

Didn't seem like it could be real. 
In the seen and Unseen.
The Locket i hold.

Of what depth i conceal

Hide the places that feel. 

So I don't blow in the breeze

But root in the ground.

What the the world never gave

True love's real sound.