Violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet,
And so are you!
You remember when everyone had autograph books? Teachers detested them
because they were forever being passed around during class. In your
best friends book you would write something like the verse above. If it
was someone you didn't like, you might write:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Who wants to be friends,
With a nerd like you?
Here is was being passed toward you; the autograph book of your secret love. Whatever would you write? The book was getting closer and closer.....oh, no, it's in your hands now. You pick up your pen and....wham...nothing.....you have drawn a complete blank! Where are all of those great words you wanted to write? Words that would go down in infamy just like the Gettysburg Address. You fumble; your palms sweat....what will you write? All you can think of is:
Can't think...
Brain dumb.....
Inspiration won't come....
Bad ink....
Bad pen...
That's all....
A-Men!
You slam the book shut and quickly pass it on. You would cry if you weren't so embarrassed.
Yes, it was the adolescent version of an adult plague.
"Oh, creepers! Confess...you've caught that confound, creepy, clearly critical creative crisis condition compounded by catastrophic complacency constituting concessions and conflict! In conclusion ....you're brain dead
.
I feel this way so much of the time when I'm trying to put the thoughts running through my head on paper. Sometimes, they flow like a gentle stream. Other times, they are just not there.
Do you feel lost for words when you pray? Sometimes I have things on my heart I want to tell God but when I try to pray, the words just won't come. For some reason, I want to think when I am talking to One who is so holy, I have to speak the king's English so to speak in order to be worthy of God hearing me. I know in my heart, that's not so because God tells me in Romans that I have a "go between", who speaks to the Heavenly Father on my behalf when the thoughts in my heart just won't come to my mouth.
"And in the same way—by our faith—the Holy Spirit helps us with our daily problems and in our praying. For we don’t even know what we should pray for nor how to pray as we should, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with such feeling that it cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows, of course, what the Spirit is saying as he pleads for us in harmony with God’s own will." Romans 8:26-27 Living Bible
I must remember that my prayers don't have to be an exercise in eloquent speech. All my prayer needs to do to reach the throne of God is to be uttered in my heart toward Him. His Holy Spirit will take it from there.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Who wants to be friends,
With a nerd like you?
Here is was being passed toward you; the autograph book of your secret love. Whatever would you write? The book was getting closer and closer.....oh, no, it's in your hands now. You pick up your pen and....wham...nothing.....you have drawn a complete blank! Where are all of those great words you wanted to write? Words that would go down in infamy just like the Gettysburg Address. You fumble; your palms sweat....what will you write? All you can think of is:
Can't think...
Brain dumb.....
Inspiration won't come....
Bad ink....
Bad pen...
That's all....
A-Men!
You slam the book shut and quickly pass it on. You would cry if you weren't so embarrassed.
Yes, it was the adolescent version of an adult plague.
"Oh, creepers! Confess...you've caught that confound, creepy, clearly critical creative crisis condition compounded by catastrophic complacency constituting concessions and conflict! In conclusion ....you're brain dead
.
I feel this way so much of the time when I'm trying to put the thoughts running through my head on paper. Sometimes, they flow like a gentle stream. Other times, they are just not there.
Do you feel lost for words when you pray? Sometimes I have things on my heart I want to tell God but when I try to pray, the words just won't come. For some reason, I want to think when I am talking to One who is so holy, I have to speak the king's English so to speak in order to be worthy of God hearing me. I know in my heart, that's not so because God tells me in Romans that I have a "go between", who speaks to the Heavenly Father on my behalf when the thoughts in my heart just won't come to my mouth.
"And in the same way—by our faith—the Holy Spirit helps us with our daily problems and in our praying. For we don’t even know what we should pray for nor how to pray as we should, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with such feeling that it cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows, of course, what the Spirit is saying as he pleads for us in harmony with God’s own will." Romans 8:26-27 Living Bible
I must remember that my prayers don't have to be an exercise in eloquent speech. All my prayer needs to do to reach the throne of God is to be uttered in my heart toward Him. His Holy Spirit will take it from there.
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