Monday, April 23, 2007

The Big Head

In the draw a person test, a clinician is advised to interpret a large head as indicating an over concern with matters of intellectual functioning; one system even suggests that it means brain damage.
-Psychological Testing: Principles, Applications and Issues P. 419

Thursday, April 12, 2007

For a Fair Desire

--ZAO
Let me not exist for a fair desire sweet and fresh
Are my expectations of this inner strength
That yearns passionately
For the endowment of the Father
I sow in tears that later I shall reap in joy
Each drop that I sow will be a time of breaking [3x]
Come Holy Spirit empower Your creation
Through times of breaking the planting of tears as I am broken
Your presence grows stronger
I feel You with me upholding me through it all
Let me not exist for a fair desire sweet and fresh
Are my expectations of this inner strength
That yearns passionately
For the endowment of
Each drop that I sow is a time of breaking
A time of breaking

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

How Deep the Fathers Love for Us

How Deep the Father's Love for Us
--- Stuart Townend

How deep the Father's love for us, how vast beyond all measure
That he should give his only son, to make a wretch his treasure
How great the pain of searing loss, the Father turned his face away
As wounds which mar the chosen one, bring many sons to glory


Behold the man upon a cross, my sin upon his shoulders
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice call out among the scoffers
It was my sin that held him there until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life; I know that it is finished


I will not boast in anything: no gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ; his death and resurrection
Why should I gain from his reward? I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart: his wounds have paid my ransom

Monday, April 2, 2007

Tears of the Saints

--Leeland
There are many prodigal sons
On our city streets they run
Searching for shelter
There are homes broken down
People’s hopes have fallen to the ground
From failures

This is an emergency!

There are tears from the saints
For the lost and unsaved
We’re crying for them come back home
We’re crying for them come back home
And all your children will stretch out their hands
And pick up the crippled man
Father, we will lead them home
Father, we will lead them home

There are schools full of hatred
Even churches have forsaken
Love and mercy
May we see this generation
In it’s state of desperation
For Your glory

This is an emergency!

Sinner, reach out your hands!
Children in Christ you stand!
Sinner, reach out your hands!
Children in Christ you stand!

And all Your children will stretch out their hands
And pick up the crippled man
Father, we will lead them home
Father, we will lead them home

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

A Prayer

The Imitation of Christ
--Thomas A Kempis

Grant me, Lord, to know all that
I should know, to love what I
should love, to esteem what most
pleases you, and to reject all that
is evil in your sight. Let me not
judge superficially by what I see,
nor be influenced by what I hear
from ignorant men, but with true
judgement to discern between
things spiritual and material,
and to seek your will and good
pleasure at all times and above
all else."

Saturday, March 24, 2007

DarkAndLight

---Sarah Abbett
The world is full of dark today
The light draws ever dim
Yet you know what the wise say
'Tis always darkest before dawn'

The world is full of dark
The light grows precious
All that glitters is not gold
And all that glistens is not Light

My dearest friend, draw nearer me
And listen while we pray
To the wind that beats against the house
In the winter night outside

The night is cold
The Dark is deep
But we have each other
No force can sunder us, not even in this weather

The Light is precious
For the world is Dark
And moveth towards the Dark
Yet the Light liveth still

Do not ever give up
Do not ever give in
They say nothing gold ever lasts
I know that to be false

For you and I will last forever
In the light and grace of God
We'll dance on the streets of gold together
And remain there ever more

The world is Dark
The Light is precious
And the Dark grows darker yet
Be not afraid of the Dark

The Dark is frightening
The Dark is evil
The Dark is not for friends
The Dark shall not last

The Light is comforting
The Light is good
The Light has many friends
The Light shall last forever

This is how you shall know
Light from Dark my friend
Be ye not afraid
For the Dark shall one day end

Saturday, March 3, 2007

7. In Times Gone Past--ZAO

I see it in your eyes,
the tearing in your heart,
as I awaken I learn first, first of dying,
and lying inside the ground forgotten,
I learn of love, I learn of terror,

I feel the curse inside my body,
my God, my God,
why have you forsaken me and put this curse inside my body,
we live within a curse and within the divine,
we're born and raised to work,
and then grow old and die (in ourgolden time),
strange, cut and burnt then thrown into the tide (I have lived and died),

lie beneath the ground,
ascend into the sky,
I feel the earth spinning slow,
and winding down with the sun,
I feel the curse inside my body,
running through my veins into my mind