Hopes and Gifts

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
- 1 Peter 3:7

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
- Acts 20:35

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
- Proverbs 13:12





Nothing is more grievous than the disappointment of a raised expectation... hope quite dashed kills the heart, and the more high the expectation was raised the more cutting is the frustration of it. It is therefore our wisdom not to promise ourselves any great matters ... and what we do hope for let us prepare to be disappointed... Nothing is more grateful than to enjoy that which we have long wished and waited for.

(from Matthew Henry's Commentary)

Door of Glass

In my sleep
In the night
He led me to a narrow hallway
In the center a door of glass
No secluding curtains hung
The focus of my attention
Stood opposite the hinged panel
I pressed both palms against the surface
Peering through to the other side
And woke with a sense of longing
Aware of the irony

© Rachelle

"Fugitive"
Indigo Girls



i'm harboring a fugitive
defector of a kind
and she lives in my soul
drinks of my wine
and i'd give my last breath
to keep us alive

are they coming for us
with cameras or guns
we don't know which
but we gotta run
and you say this is not
what i bargained for

so hide yourself for me
all for me

we swore to ourselves
we'd go to the end of the world
but i got caught up in the whirl
and the twirl of it all
a day in the sun
dancing alone
baby i'm so sorry

now it's coming to you
the lessons i've learned
won't do you any good
you've got to get burned
well the curse and the blessing
they're one in the same
baby it's all
such a treacherous gain

hide yourself for me
i said hide yourself for me
all for me

i stood without clothes
danced in the sand
i was aching with freedom
and kissing the damned
i said remember this
as how it should be

oh baby i said
it's all in our hands
got to learn to respect
what we don't understand
we are fortunate ones
fortunate ones
i swear

hide yourself for me
i will hide myself for you
all for you
(i will hide)
all for you
(myself for you)
i will hide myself for you
all for you

i stood without clothes
i danced in the sand
i was aching with freedom
kissing the damned
i said remember this
is how it should be