Loneliness

Snippet

You have to let the place happen to you. . . the loneliness, the silence,  the poverty, the futility, 

indeed the silliness of your life. Dakota Kathleen Norris  Pg 218

Scripture

My eyes are always on the Lord,

    for he rescues me from the traps of my enemies.

Turn to me and have mercy,

    for I am alone and in deep distress.

 My problems go from bad to worse.

    Oh, save me from them all!  Psalms 25:15-17 NLT

Song

If I Could Make It Work

Rich Mullins, Beaker, and Mitch McVicker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZGPckbm2mA&playnext=1&list=PLCB486958EC16CBA4&feature=results_main

I sit on a piano stool, and I make up songs for these men
Who come in with dust on their faces and mud on their boots
From these places that I'll never go.
I sleep in a rented bed, with a woman who gives me
What little I get of the love that we'd like to imagine
Is left of the love that we never did know.
I slip out and scribble a note that reads like a million bucks.
It's a four cent nickel for my dime store thief
But it sure reads good
 

And If I could make it work in life
(Make it work in life)
Like it works on paper.
(Works on paper)
If the love that I describe
(Love that I describe)
Could be anything but words
Then I would wipe my eyes,
I'd dry this ink,
I'd trade my pen in on a pair of wings.
And I would
(I would)
I would fly
(I would fly)
If I could only make it work in life

And at the end of every night, I add up the tips
That account for what might not come down to a thing
That amounts to a life, and the sum of it all
I'm afraid is less than what I know
I need to slip beneath the surface of my forgeries
Where I buried my hopes with sometimes my dreams
Still stir me and steal me away.
And I can still hear Dineh Bikeyah call
Just like when we were kids.
And I could tell you all about it in a song.
But Lord, I wish that

I could make it work in life
(Make it work in life)
Like it works on paper.
(Works on paper)
If the love that I describe
(Love that I describe)
Could be anything but words
Then I would wipe my eyes,
(Wipe my eyes)
I'd dry this ink,
I'd trade my pen in on a pair of wings.
(I would fly)
And I would fly!
If I could only make it work in life.
If I could only make it work in life.

Sentence Prayer

Father;         

I started out with childlike faith, now I find I have shrunk to cynical old man.  Take my tiny faith and restore my childhood.  I started out with pride that I could make it work, now I know you alone can make it work.  Put to death this empty pride and resurrect a humility that trusts.  Take this sin that has isolated me and resurrect my faith that will put me in genuine fellowship.  Amen!