I have found that when ups and downs come to us and we either feel overwhelmed by sorrow or overwhelmed by stress..we can press into gratitude. The call in the word is always to remember where you have come from..to write it like a tatoo on yourself. so that you will remember..
Inked up for the road ahead
Around my neck lives the things
You have said, am I still wondering
Or are we all just wandering?
Pain comes in the morning,
Pain stays when we all sleep,
Latch on the door kind of lover
The yearning type,
The yearning of hype,
The sound of Your truth changes
And now my life is proof—
I don’t know how to trust You
Any deeper then I already am?
I have whiplash from the roads
I’ve been down,
I have not found safety with You
God, all I have gotten is a whole
Lot of pain in this catalog,
Its pages are full of stains of
Dirt, stains of how to flirt with
The disaster soon to cover all of us
You are worth it, God is worth this
Fight, this flight of stairs I live on,
This upward spiral to find you waiting
Always for me,
Catalog this love under how to
Grow under pressure,
I have nothing to go back to,
I have no connections to go back to,
No hometown full of good
Memories, couch tears, and
Nightly fears, I hid from him
I sipped the sugar on the rim,
I hid with sweetness, kept them
Safe, catalog of a life to live
A giant book of all the mistakes
You use—light up the darkness
Now, write Your mercy on this
Sleeve, inked and green and
Glowing in the dark for the hardest
Of nights–now, we all sleep in
Gratitude
