Oh Happy Day!
Monday, February 27, 2006
For the second time since I have been in Florida, my dad is coming to visit. I am terribly excited! It is going to be a boy's weekend! Anybody who wants to join us for bbq on Saturday night, just let me know! Either Smokey Bones or O'Boys! Once you'll meet my dad, you'll understand a little bit better why I am the way that I am! (in a good way, of course!)
Posted byMike Fennema posted 11:00 PM 5 comments
Some things just need to be reiterated...this is one of those things...
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Slow down, you move too fast,
You've got to make the morning last
Just kickin' down the cobble-stones,
Lookin' for fun and feelin' groovy
Feeling groovy
Hello lamp-post,
What's cha knowing,
I've come to watch your flowers growin'
Ain't cha got no rhymes for me,
Do-it-do-do, feelin' groovy
Feeling groovy
I've got no deeds to do,
No promises to keep
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me
Life I love you,
All is groovy
Posted byMike Fennema posted 11:29 PM 2 comments
The Music of My Mind
Saturday, February 4, 2006
Looking back at the road so far
The journey's left its share of scars
Mostly from leaving the narrow and straight
Looking back it is clear to me
That a man is more than the sum of his deeds
And how You've made good of this mess I've made
Is a profound mystery
You had to bring me through
All that I was so afraid of
Though I questioned the sky
Now I see why
Had to walk the rocks to see the mountain view
Looking back I see the lead of love
How failures bring humility
I'd rather have wisdom and pain
Brings me to my knees
Than be a comfortable old fool
Helps me see my need for thee
You had to bring me through
All that I was so afraid of
Though I questioned the sky
Now I see why
Had to walk the rocks to see the mountain view
Looking back I see the lead of love
Looking back on my road thus far, my journey has left its share of scars, mostly from leaving the narrow and straight. Looking back it is clear to me that I am more than the sum of my deeds. And how He's made good of this mess I've made is a profound mystery. Looking back I see how you brought me through all that I was so afraid of.
Now that I am once again looking ahead in my life, the questions return. I am trying to use the past to shape the future, but I so often see my past as what not to do in the future. It's like I am still trying out all the options, knowing that the few that I have tried in the past don't work, but there are still so many options to try before I figure out which is the right one.
I think my biggest struggle always seems to be figuring out how I know that an opportunity is good for me or not. More than that, I struggle deciphering between something that is good, and something that is the best. Patience is not my fortay (did I spell that right?). What to do, what to do, what to do? Good is ok, but the things that are the best are what I really want to hold out for and really gradb onto when they come? I think I settle a lot thinking that the best might not come along so I grab onto the good that is right in front of me. What to do? And then the question comes up, what if I become so obsesses with waiting for the best, that it passes me by and I have to settle for the good again? Scary thought.
I guess from here on out, I can pray (when I do pray, that is. I'm trying to work on that.) that God reveal to me his best and for me to take advantage of His best when he places it in front of me. I've heard that when we pray, God answers. Can I get a witness?
Posted byMike Fennema posted 11:56 AM 4 comments
