Monday, October 29, 2012

1 Less drink


One less drink
So you can have one more
A step back
To put you ahead
Bear a little more
To soften your load
I will save my strength
So when you run dry
You will have one more shot
Take the hit
Fight the fight
I will hold you
I save myself for you
Because you gave it all for me

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

How to Have Fun While Having Fun

I like to write. Mainly because it has no end. Take books, sometimes I read just to finish the book and don't really enjoy what I am doing.  The same could be said for tv or video games. I need to learn that I don't have to finish everything I start.* I never made a commitment to a book. I stated it because I enjoyed it. But when the enjoyment stops and it becomes more of a chore maybe I should stop. Relaxing should be relaxing. Do what you love with who you love. Relationships are awesome because they last a long time and only end when one dies. But our relationship with Christ will have no end and go on forever. Endings pretty much suck anyway. So do beginnings now that I think about it. I am just going to keep on writing and I will most likely have poor beginnings and some sort of ending.

Anyway if you are not having fun when you should be maybe you are doing the wrong thing. Also some things stink at the beginning and get better after some time or practice or after you learn all the rules or have a better understanding. I don't really know.

But I write for me because it is fun. Maybe I will write about something else if you give me a suggestion but only if I find it fun.

Sorry for the ramblings.



*Work and family and other responsibilities don't have to be fun and should still be completed to the best of one's ability with love.


Light of the Moon


When did the darkness and horrors of the night become better than the harshness of the morning light? We once rejoiced at first light. Now we only dance at night. The trumpet sounding the glory of the day is now the alarm we curse and ignore. The monsters of the night have evolved into comforts and the labors of the day have transformed into beasts. We are friends with the unknown and fear the demands of responsibility.

We are held captive until set free.

Our last hope is the soft light of the moon.  Can only you show us the joy of the sun? 

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Until the Sun



Candle lit with the smallest flame
tiniest ember that sets my heart ablaze
let me kindle this fire.
not to destroy,
set astray,
wither and die.
allow the light to guide
the warmth to comfort
the burn to cleanse
Your glory to shine
I fill my lamp with oil
I will dance
Until the sun  

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Little Like Me


Me- I love you, Gigi
Zeke – No, I love Gigi
Me – I love Gigi too!
Zeke – No, Gigi is little like me! I love Gigi!

This goes back and forth for a few minutes with the battle over who can love Gigi getting more and more intense. But I learned something very deep and meaningful from my exchange with my three year old today.
It is easier to love someone like us. Now I could go on to talk about race issues or kinship but I won't. What I will talk about is how someone so big can love someone so little. Sometimes it is hard to believe someone so much bigger than us can love us. It is crazy for us to believe that God loves us. He is the creator of the universe, when would he have time for little old me. He has better things to be dealing with than my day to day trivial issues. I mean it is kind of like asking the President to help me out with a parking ticket. But God wants to be Lord of our whole life, even the little meaningless things. He loves us more than we can comprehend. But still we hesitate. I believe Jesus helps us to make this bridge of love between small us and big God. Jesus became little like us. He became one of us, so he could tell us, or better yet, show us how much he really does love us.  He became little to show us how big he really is.

This is the reason why the Church encourages us to ask the Blessed Virgin Mary to intercede for us. Why we go to the great saints or maybe the not so great ones. They are more like us. They suffered like us. They sinned and learn to overcome temptations and sins like we hope to do. They show us that someone little can make a big difference.   

not sic

I am not the best writer but I like to write. I may take time to proof read my wrote I may not. I might add extra comma's or leave them out completely. But this is me. I might reread a post two years from now or next week and edit an error I see  or by the grace of God these post will be perfect. If I am going to write and post regularly I need it to be easy and the hardest thing for me to is edit my work. If it is not easy it is not worth doing. Maybe someday I will have my very one or even someone to write and post for me. What I do want to provide is good, meaningful content. At least from my point of view. I want to share my thoughts and prayers. Not for your benefit but for my own. I welcome comments but I can't promise to read them or answer questions, although I might. I am not sure what this is but I hope it will be me and the part of me that looks the most like Christ.

Thank for your time,
I hope it was not a waste,
God Bless,

Giovanni