Building Around

was it ever 

happy 

in the way I envisioned 

was it what you had hoped 

when you asked 

what was supposed to be 

a joining together 

became a me 

building around 

and a you 

pruning back 

from inside

here

attending to reconstruction 

a stack of pebbles

waiting for mortar 

however long

It occurs to me

If pain is separation from Him

Love 

and sin

the act of building around 

Him  

aiding our separation from Him 

each other

I need to call off the build 

it was always empty fraud

the snare of building up 

was that it only 

created 

a hole

One Day -MLK day

One Day
(Adapted from the famous Martin Luther King, Jr speech.)


I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in my faith and knowledge of a God who redeems.

I have a dream that one day this relationship will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "To love as Christ loves us."

I have a dream that one day on the street of Indiana my husband and myself will be able to sit down together at a table of mutual strength.

I have a dream that one day even as broken as we are, as hurting and desperate, sweltering with the heat of distrust and fear, we will be transformed into an oasis of forgiveness and joy.

I have a dream that my two children will one day live in a family where they will have a loving, healthy relationship modeled and therefore choose a mate by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.