Little Birdie

God Transforms

Responsibility into an ability to respond….

Expectation into expectancy….

Disappointment into hope….

Dread into anticipation….

Sorrow into joy….

My mindset into His.

Belly, I have let you roam again
To Biscuitville, that evil villain.
It tastes so good, and feels so bad.
But it’s the best darn biscuit I ever had–

aside from grandma’s.

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Belly, you poke over my pants.
You assert your authority better than fire ants.
How can my mind be ruled by you?
How can my will be so consumed?
You are not so insurmountable,
But by myself, I’m incapable.

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Will I sit by and let the scale creep up?
Or will I let the Lord fill my cup?
Must my sides jut out like this?
Or will I rule with an iron fist?
Rolls of fat, be gone with you!
To Thy Word I must be true.
God, please come and rescue me.
From temptation I will flee.

In one end
and out the other
My tummy rebels
My guts run for cover.

Viva la spices
Regurgitate flavor
Viva tortilla chips
Heartburn is thy favre.

Why do I do this?
The answer is pure.
Te amo burrito
Rolaids is the cure.

Heavy heart…Heavy thoughts…Heavy eyes.
My soul is sad…My body aches…My spirit cries.

Grief floods me. Laziness pervades me. Pride imbues me.
Life, come rescue me. Hope, breathe into me. Truth, come infuse me.

The Lord of light is breaking me down,
humbling me before His crown.

My life is hinged on His grace.
I long for the day I see His face.

This sinful life I will leave behind
My carnal nature…flatlined.

There once was a 2X belly
That shook like a bowl full of jelly
But now there’s less there
And I’m walking on air
As I snack on fat-free turkey from the deli.

Belly, you have faded once again
Into the background of my life.
You tried to steal the stage,
And the crumbs…
And the sauce…
But the floor
And the keyboard
Serve as my food catcher once again.

I am waiting in the sanctuary for your anointing
The red carpet is rolled out
The trumpets are calling
The choirs are singing
The dancers are dancing.

Furiously I war on my drum,
Searching and waiting for you to come.
I will not move until I hear from you.
I will not speak until I am spoken to.
You give me dreams I know not of.
The desires I have reflect your love.

I throw out my arms to embrace you.
I throw off the hindrances I hold on to.
There’s no one here but you and me,
Yet I look around and see family.
We are fellowshipping in your wonderful embrace-
Finally, I feel I can run this race.

I wrote this in response to my worship experience this morning–which was really a culmination of the past week. It’s a pretty pathetic depiction of what I was actually feeling, but I’m giving myself a break because I don’t write poetry.

God’s been doing some pretty hefty stuff in my life lately, but it’s been coming on slowly. Usually when I’m dealing with something, it turns into this big emotional drama, but somehow it was different this time. It was sweeter somehow. Don’t get me wrong, there was still drama, but it was short-lived. And the result was me simply falling more in love with Jesus. How cool is that?

Now, go check out Kelanie Gloeckler’s CD “Bending to hear the secrets you breathe.” It had me on the floor.

I shoulda changed that stupid lock.

I shoulda made you leave your key.

Belly, you seem to be sneaking your way back into my life. A fry here, a cookie there…now I’m three or four pounds heavier than I was a month ago.

Maybe my boobs are conspiring against me. They liked their resting place and they got tired of supporting themselves.

Well, too bad boobs. Get a job. It’s time to evacuate the free space that existed a half inch in front of me just four weeks ago.

Oh Belly of mine, how you have grown.
Through thick and thicker you have been there.
You have stayed close to me even as you protrude
farther out into the wide, wide world.

Now as I look down…at my toes
My heart is filled with so much woe
How could you leave me oh Belly?
Yet as I come to grips with this loss
I feel…lighter, somehow.

So as you depart from my life
I will remember the couch we shared.
All the fat, all the sugar
Disappears as I drink more water.

So long, sucka!!