From a Father

Prayer Shift at The Boiler Room . . . . . . . . September 15, 09

"Come back to me my children!
I miss your smile so much; let me hold you.
I don't care that you are covered in mud, that doesn't change the fact that you are my child.
Whay do you listen to your friends who say I will punish you for ruining your clothes?
Do you not know that my love goes deeper than the dirt under your nails?
Come home.
Let me prepare a hot bath for you.
I have fresh clothes already lain out for you, waiting.
Are you not hungry?
I have prepared your favorite meal, please stop living off of that junk food.
I'm keeping your plate warm.
Know that I will always wait.
I will not let your food grow cold nor put up your clothes.
No matter the time of day the door is always open, waiting for you.
Let me hold you, my child
I ask nothing of you, except that you come back to me"

Psalm Compilation

something I wrote at VHOP back in July

Satisfy me in the morning
With Your unfailing love
That I may rejoice!

Deliver me from the sword
Many bulls have surrounded me
Your mercy, O Lord, will hold me up

My strength is dried up like clay
I can count all my bones
I have been anointed with fresh oil
You pour Yourself out like water

In the multitude of my anxieties
Your comforts delight my soul
Lord, You have heard the desire of my heart!

I have declared Your name
You have not hidden Your face from me

Upside Down

Right now I am sitting at a freshly opened Comfort Inn … I believe, really only glanced at the sign when we came it. I only know that normally a hotel like this would not be near as nice.
Back to the point. I am sitting here at one of their computer because I am a leader for my youth groups and we are attending “Acquire The Fire“. Basically a youth conference, for mainly North Carolina churches, involving speakers and concerts.
Tonight I got to see Jeremy Camp perform. This was my second time seeing him live, if I am remembering correctly. He is good. I own all of his cd’s and even have two copies of one, though I don’t know how it happened.

Unfortunately the downfall of being here is that you get little sleep. My youth kids are just now geting to bed so they’ll get anywhere from 5 to 6 hours of sleep. I’m rather jealous of them.
The past week my sleep schedule has been rather upside down. Last weekend I stayed up all night for theBurn. Eventually went to bed at 10am Saturday and got up at 4pm.
Since I have nothing ever scheduled for the mornings I never have a reason to get up. I did slowly whin myself towards normal hours. First 2pm, then 1pm, then 12pm, and this morning 11am.
So right now I am wide awake feeling like I might fall asleep at 2:30am. And I’ll have to be up at 6am. Wooh.
Well at least I get to work on stuff down here in the lobby with no one distracting me. And tomorrow I get to see the Newsboys and Leeland. Oh I also get to learn how to fix my problems with the opposite sex.

This is exciting ;)