Give Me the Desire

Giving me Your heartbeat
And giving me Your life, 
Should give me the desire 
To see things through Your eyes  


But I cannot see 
Or maybe I do not care, 
As I live today 
My end could be near  


Ignorance is no excuse, 
Our fatalities are always choice 
We all know who You are, 
But yet we choose to reject  


Giving me Your heartbeat 
And giving me Your life, 
Should give me the desire 
To see things through Your eyes 


I count my age on fingers, 
But I see no success 
I look upon my trophies 
Immaculate, they gather dust  


Giving me Your heartbeat 
And giving me Your life,
Should give me the desire 
To see things through Your eyes  


So long have I put off 
The pressure to ‘walk that walk,’ 
So long have I refused, 
You to open, You to renew  


I’m giving You my heartbeat 
Finally, giving You my life 
Presents a burning desire 
To see things through Your eyes  


Now I can see,  
I now do truly care, 
As I live today, 
My end could be near  


I revel in my pain, 
I rejoice when I need suffer 
For when my end does come, 
Of that I have no fear  


I’ll show others how to give You their heartbeat, 
And how to give You their life 
As I continue in the journey 
To see all through Your eyes

Truth....is?

           Truth. A five letter word, yet many of the most conversant minds of today cannot truly define what it means. Men have searched in vain for decades in hopes of discovering it, while other men have found it.

So we ask ourselves what the difference between these two sets of seekers is. We wonder why all do not come to the same conclusion. And sometimes, we even question if there is such a thing as truth. Multiple authors claim they have reached true truth, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, etc.

I believe the search of truth leads one in an endless maze of questions in the beginning. Perhaps maze is not the term I am looking for, but syllogism.

What is truth? What is true truth? Is there truth? Does it affect me? As a child I thought I knew what truth was. “Thy Word is truth. John 17:17,” I repeated as a 5 year old Sparky. I could lie and say I thought about what those words truly meant, but I can’t say I did other than to realize God is truth and the Bible is truth.

           

How profound Jesus is, even in the simplest of statements. A derivative of the Greek word alētheia, truth is defined as “conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is or has been, or shall be” in Webster’s 1828 dictionary.

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos has a very similar sound to this definition. A sound which to many might seem almost biblical. When you ask someone “what is truth,” you will find many different answers. Why? Because there are sides. Truth is not simply a question, but a battle. The battle between right and wrong, good and evil. truth and non-truth – a battle that if thoroughly examined is prepared to shake us to our very core, question our beliefs, and perhaps even shatter them.

Many people are opposed to the mere mention of truth. Why? I believe it is because that by ignoring the presence of such a thing one is released of all responsibility regarding behavior, actions, and beliefs. In our sinful human nature we do not naturally seek responsibility; we revile it in our hearts.

In the Garden of Eden the serpent told Eve that no one had to know, thus releasing her of her responsibility to truth. To some, truth is like a demon that is determined to expose every particle of their being, and to others it presents a sense of peace and comfort. The search of truth requires us to lay down our thoughts and truly examine them for what they are. I personally wonder if some “seekers of truth” really want to find it, or simply desire to set their minds at ease.

           

The sides of this age-old cosmic battle are the world and God. That alone explains why we reach different conclusions. The world is essentially at war with God, and groups at war rarely believe the same thing. As far as I can see….:P

Many believe that truth is interpretive person to person – that there is no real truth, there is only their own personal truth, what they determine to be truth. If this is the case, then truth shouldn’t matter, it shouldn’t be an unanswered question. But do you really want to base your existence on interpretation? According to Sagan, we’re “star stuff.” He claimed that we have fallen from a great height- I’ll also assume he hit his head at the bottom.

I personally would rather believe I came from something with a little more validity than that.

What about you?

Tomorrow

Don’t forget to dream

When joy seems forgotten

Don’t forget to dream

When your ship no longer sails

Don’t forget to dream

Look into the night sky,

Immerse your eyes in black

And don’t forget to dream

On a hill far away lives a hermit,

So lonely,

Running from all life gave him

But he forgot to dream

In a dorm room a student

Puts pen to paper

And begins to set flight to dreams

A mother silently puts her baby to bed

As he stares into her velvet brown eyes

A baby has found imagination

Don’t let him forget to not dream

When the tears stain the paper

And the war rages on

Stand strong, and have faith

Don’t forget to dream

When the battle is over

And the field covered with blood,

Remember, remember,

To dream

Dreams rebuild the heart,

The country, the world

Dreams lead to great acts of valor

Drams birth philosophers,

But better yet – dreamers

Dreamers who will tell

The next generation,

Not to forget

Don’t forget to dream

Don’t forget, there’s tomorrow

Chris Klicka

Pray for Chris Klicka and his family. Mr. Klicka has been the Colorado HSLDA representative for many years and was intregal to authoring our homeschooling law a short twenty years ago. Before this, homeschooling was illegal and punishable in CO.
Mr. Klicka was diagnosed with MS a little over 15 years ago. God has blessed him throughout this, but is finally calling him home. Pray for his wife, and his seven children to stay strong.
As quoted from the HSLDA site:
"Chris Klicka, HSLDA’s first full-time attorney, who has been fighting multiple sclerosis for many years, became very ill at our National Leaders Conference in Colorado last week. Chris was admitted to St. Francis Medical Center in Colorado Springs but has since been moved to hospice care.
His family has traveled from Virginia to be with him. Please pray for them as they wait on the Lord during this difficult time.
For updates on Chris’s status visit CaringBridge.org.
You may leave comments about Chris on the discussion section of HSLDA’s Facebook page.
Members and friends of HSLDA are also invited to email their well-wishes and comments concerning Chris to feedback@hslda.org.
For more about Chris’s years of service to the homeschooling community, view his bio at HSLDA’s website."
You can also read the recent updates at http://www.rejoiceinprayer.blogspot.com.
Thanks so much.:)