Like a Diamond

I'm writing poetry again.

It's a bit addictive, that.

Maybe not so much addictive as necessary for my brain.

I know I'm pausing on my novel because I don't have time to sit and focus on it, but poetry's different. It's breathing, and I suppose these blog posts are too.

It's just me and God and the page, and I feel this deep need to take every sin, every consequence, every dark thing and turn it like a diamond in His strong light.

I think a lot about how, when He comes to reign permanently, there will be no need for a sun. He will be our sun and how only those whose names are written in the Book of Life will be able to feel His glorious warmth.

And so these poems? My writing? My words? They're not just for me to process and look back to my Jesus. They're to be shared with anyone out there who has never felt the touch of that kind of warmth and who has been let down by humanity (much like the rest of us).

Don't fear and don't put your hope in the sheep. Put your hope in the Shepherd. He loves you, searches for you, and overcame the death and decay we can feel in our bones to bring you into eternity with Him.