Mimicking Birds – Bloodlines

I will protect your shadow even though when it’s dark it slips

I’ll clean your window, make you look out and see scenery

I am a stranger, shouldn’t talk to myself in times of rearrangement or even in good mental health

And on the other side soon they’ll side with their family who hides from all the evil within their own bloodline

But you fly a different kite hovering over their heads so high

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Big Red Machine – Forest Green

I was gonna give you all of my timeMore timeMore timeI was gonna go and get you more timeMore timeMore timeI was gonna give you more and more timeI ain’t lyingI was gonna give you loads of more time ...  Keep reading

Deconstructing: Your Beliefs Need to Evolve

Don’t be afraid to let your faith and beliefs evolve. Everything in us is geared toward figuring out all the “right” things to believe and then defending them and promoting them as what everyone else needs to believe, like they’re perfect in their current form and don’t need any revision or reformation. But the real truth is being uncovered, it is evolving and it is conversation. It’s not that the truth is changing necessarily; it’s that it is still emerging. You’ve just ...  Keep reading

Deconstructing is Having A Soft Grip

There is nothing wrong with having some working idea of what you believe about the world. Just know you are wrong or, at the very least, not finished learning. Come to some conclusions, but hold those conclusions softly. Soon, you will be presented with information that challenges what you think you “know”. If your grip is too tight on your current assumptions, you will not listen well and you will spend a lot of energy furiously defending the things you think you need to believe.

It is tempting ...  Keep reading

Deconstructing Is Saying You Don’t Know

Be thankful for these little frailties, mistakes and woundings that routinely throw you off your path. They remind you of your true nature: you are human and wanting. When you are in pain, worried, weak, disoriented and confused, slow down and pay attention. These are your entrance into what you really need: an experience of God in God’s tenderest form. Your little weaknesses are also what keep you tender and vulnerable. That is the best thing that can happen to you.

These little setbacks and ...  Keep reading

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