Hats Full of Feels

I have heard of people who wear their hearts on their sleeves. But most of my feelings are in my head. So I wear them on my head. Like a hat.

My happy hat fits just right, and works well with anything and everything.

My contented hat shades my eyes for a perfect nap.

My angry hat is so tight I often can't get it off my head.

My sadness hat is too floppy and it lets in ALL the rain.

I discovered I own two worry hats.
   One is too loose and threatens to blow off in the slightest breeze.
   The other isn't on my head, it's being twisted into new shapes in my hands.

My envy hat THINKS its a little faded and threadbare.

My fear hat sits like an eyeless ghost-sheet, potential walls at every turn.

My excited hat holds the trophy-pins for each adventure and story.

My frustration hat is usually on the floor having been thrown there and stomped on.

Screwing Around vs. SCIENCE

Remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. --Adam Savage

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BSUMBBFjxrY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DBSUMBBFjxrY

This quote is largely the base for why I always have a place to write things down some where in arms reach. I have weird thoughts. I think of a quote or a scripture and a connection or context and I have at hand the tools to capture create it.

Are u a success? Write it down.

  Leave behind a record of how you got there and let others follow your method.

Are u a failure?  Write it down.

  Leave behind a record of how u got into the mess and your signs will lead u back out again. And so others will not make the mistakes u did.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I just know 10,000 things that don't work. 

   --Edison

Are u confused?

Are u worried?

   Write it down. Double space.

   Then the worries and confusions are contained and can be studied. 

   Not just by the one who had the worry but by those who support u.

Write the answers in between.

Easter "Morning Has Broken"

Morning has broken like the first Easter

The tomb lays open what shall we do

Come to the garden see where they put him

Come with confusion on this new day

Come with your spices come with your wailing

Come with the first light of the new week

Angels will greet us give us strange tidings

Leave with the good news of Christ's return.

Go tell the nations Christ is alive

Death has no power where is its sting

We shall bring praises we shall bring our lives

Filled with your Spirit growing in love

--I wrote these lyrics for Easter 2015

--To the tune of Morning Has Broken 

to post or not to post.

to dredge up the thoughts and feelings of a day

   better left behind

to endure the comments and misunderstandings 

   that come of not knowing the whole story 

to search a needle in a stack of hay 

   made of the straws that broke the camel's back
to sleep and dream of a better day tomorrow
to morrow to act on those dreams
   and make of it whatever i may

Paper Fields

Open fields of paper

my pen/staff in hand

herding thoughts like sheep

thoughts with legs to be nurtured

and

in their course sheared and

made to clothe and shelter others

Open fields of paper

my pen/hoe in hand

weeding the rows of growing plans

waiting for the harvest day

that what I have written might feed other souls

Open fields of paper

my pen/walking stick in hand

enjoying the play of sunlight and clouds

nothing to do here but watch and take note

perhaps some rain will come

the sun will rise and set.

AND i and my pen will observe and take note.

I am reviewing my writing that I wanted saved a little less spread out than I discovered they were on my Facebook page. So here they are. Slightly out of order but here for easier review.

SILENCE

SILENCE

of not knowing what to say

SILENCE

of having run out of things to say

SILENCE

of pain, doubt, and despair

SILENCE

of waiting
SILENCE
of the unknown
SILENCE
of wondering where God is
SILENCE
of a voice gone horse with crying and shouting
SILENCE
of a world that has moved on without seeming to care
SILENCE
SILENCE
SILENCE
of God reaching out
SILENCE
of nothing needing to be said
SILENCE
of contacts that need no words
SILENCE
of simple care
SILENCE
of just being together
SILENCE
of the still peace that comes of knowing that God is there, even in the midst of the SILENCE
that threatens to overwhelm us

Psalm 46.10a
Be still and know that I am God.

In the times of chaos and silence, may we be reminded of God’s presence, power, and love. AMEN

What to do when you don't KNOW what to do.

What to do, when you don’t know what to do.

1. Run in circles; scream at the top of your lungs.

2. Pout.

3. Cause trouble for others.

4. Complain about being bored.

5. Complain in general.

6. Ask somebody what to do.

7. Pray.
8. Watch what others are doing.
9. Read,
10. Read your Bible.
11. Read a book from your work area.
12. Read a book that you love.
13. Write,
14. Get a blank sheet of paper, a pen/pencil, and a timer, set the timer for 10 minutes. Write whatever comes to your head.
15. Write a list of things you would do if money was no issue.
16. Write a list of things you would buy if money was no issue.
17. Write a list of people you would help if money was no issue.
18. Write a list of things you would do if you really believed God’s power was available to you.
19. Pray!

When you don’t know what to do, God does. Jeremiah 29.11. When you don’t know what to say, God does. Isaiah 59.21.