Prepare Him Room (A Song)

When winter comes

To chill me deep

And darkness lulls

My soul to sleep

The Newborn King

He calls to me

His joy to know

His love to see

His warmth moves in

And thaws the freeze

The King of Light

The Prince of Peace

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He entered where

there was no place

Rejected, scorned

He knew His fate

His birth it brings

A hopeful start

Prepare Him room

Within my heart

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He chose to step

Off of his throne

Traded heaven

As His Home

Born in flesh

A helpless babe

He came to give

His life away

A rugged cross

An empty grave

Outstanding debt

Forever paid

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He entered where

there was no place

Rejected, scorned

He knew His fate

His birth it brings

A hopeful start

Prepare Him room

Within my heart

***

Releasing a Christmas Miracle

For Christmas this year

I want you to know the simple truth

That miracles happen in the most inconspicuous

And messiest of places.  

Amongst the hay and the troughs

Sitting in the dirt and the grime

Staring Love in the face.  

There is nothing more soul healing about this season

Than meeting people

Sitting with them

-including yourself-

In the messiness of life

And simply just being.

Being present,

Being open,

Being a witness to the mess.

Hands open,

Heart open,

Gratitude flowing

And eyes witnessing Love coming down

And pouring out on each one of us.

Beauty can and does emerge from ashes.  

Miracles do happen in the hay

In the mess...

When we believe that Love is ours to receive.

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Come and Feast

In the long hours of the night, come and rest.  

In the early moments of the dawn, come and feast.

Feast on what you need for today,

to push through

for breakthrough

and some days, just to get through.  

No matter the reason

come and feast

A helping of grace,

To nourish a weary spirit

Eat it up until you are filled

A steaming cup of tenderness and warmth

to melt a heart gone cold

Drink it in.  

Find healing

in exhaling your need for perfection

and breathe deep the nourishing truth

that you are enough…

right here and right now.

Because He declared it over you

Before you lived one day

Know your limitations.

make peace with them.

Celebrate them

Because they are what will propel you

into a season of breakthrough.

The weaker I am

the stronger He will be.

Surrender

to His glorious

and grace-filled way

The pains of yesterday are done.  

Behind you now.

Come feast for today

To nourish

To fill you up.

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