Prayerful Life

The sun rose again today,

Oh, it is brilliant.

I’m letting old thoughts go their way,

And starting over.

It’s time to live this life I’m livin’,

All the time that I’ve been given,

Every moment is just beginning.

It’s all wide open, and it’s~

Shining like the sun.

Take a walk outside and see,

Oh, it is beautiful.

Leaving all the shadows behind us,

The bright new light may blind us,

But only for a while…

How’s about we live this life we’re livin’,

All the time that we’ve been given,

Every moment is just beginning.

It’s all wide open, and it’s~

Shining like the sun.

I left the cave this morning,

To take a look around,

I forgot what I’d been missing,

Or had I ever known?

Every moment is just beginning.

It’s all wide open, and it’s~

Shining like the sun.

~FS

The tops of the trees tell a story,

Reach for the skies look around,

The heart like a flower unfurling,

Life coming forth from the ground,

Origins within muck and miry,

Heavenly promises abound,

Angels celestial and fiery,

Sing praises of glorious sound,

Attend to the One who is Holy,

None other may wear His crown,

Little children dancing on Sunday,

Bright faced in white linen gowns,

Their laughter as clouds on a stairway,

Ascending to heaven resounds,

Look now at the spiritual armies,

Arrayed on this world’s battleground,

Mankind a spirit in a body,

Godly sparks in a fleshy surround,

Created as a universe entirely,

Each being a life most profound,

Death this life’s final unwinding,

Spirit and this body unwound,

Shedding our mortal encasing,

No more to dire gravity bound,

Farewell world of our suffering,

We rise up to eternity new-found,

Done with the pain of our falling,

Full-speed we are heavenly-bound.

~FS

Blank slates,

Open spaces,

Time reveals my dreams,

As passing clouds,

Scrolling over hilltops,

Scrub the world clean.

And tiny black birds,

Twittering in the wind,

Falling, rising, scattering,

Swarms of quarter notes,

Echoing through the trees,

Sing the sun awake.

Snow drifts,

Thought alights,

A suspended, pulsing rhythm,

Gently rolls across my heart,

I’m dancing with the Master,

Towards the center of it all.

~FS

I can’t imagine never knowing,

Jesus came for me.

I can’t imagine never knowing,

That He died for me.

Of all the things that we can know,

I think that this is best.

This is the thing I need to know,

And I can live without the rest.

I’m sorry if I never told you,

What He means to me.

I’m sorry if I never told you,

How He set me free.

I can’t imagine never knowing,

Jesus came for me.

I can’t imagine never knowing,

How He loves us perfectly.

~FS

The sun is shining over me,
A dove is singing from the tree,
Got a shih tzu in my lap,
He looks ready for a nap.

I sit with my eyes upon the sky,
Wondering if it’s true, or just a lie,
Can’t know for sure, but I feel hope stirring,
‘Cause I’ve got these tidings, of great things coming.

It smells like a promise on the wind,
Of a land and a life free from sin.

All around us the world is joy,
Losing everything here’s just a ploy,
There ain’t no keeping what’s gone and lost,
Just trusting in the One hanging on the cross.

If you’ve got something better?
Can you show me someone better?
We’re all dying here, and suffering,
But placebos are all they’re offering.

Redeeming the time with a song, and a prayer.
What else can I do but just sing, and then prayer?
While time is this burden I’m carrying,
The sun does its rising and falling.

It smells like a promise on the wind,
Of a land and a life free from sin.

~FS

We used to play in the streets,

We used to dance with bare feet,

All of the songs that we sang,

Love was our common refrain.

Why have we rolled over,

In our lives?

Why have we believed,

All the lies?

When will we wake from,

Our self-styled sleep?

When will we lift ourselves,

Up from the deep?

How I miss our songs together,

Sung in every kind of weather,

We sang at the top of our voices,

Harmony at the top of our choices.

Why have we rolled over,

In our lives?

Why have we believed,

All the lies?

When will we wake from,

Our self-styled sleep?

When will we lift ourselves,

Up from the deep?

When we believed in ourselves,

We believed in each other,

We believed what we saw,

We believed what we knew,

I still believe in us, I still believe in you.

I still believe what’s true, I still believe in you.

~FS

Honeybee,
In my ear,
Honeybee,
Please come nearer,
Honeybee,
Collecting pollen,
Honeybee,

I am fallin’,
For the love,
You’re speaking of,
Right here.
My honeybee.

Honeybee,
I still love you,
Honeybee,
Always thinking of you,
Honeybee,
Love like honey,
Honeybee,
You’ll always be,
Honeybee,
My honeybee.

Please don’t take your time,
But I’ll still be waiting,
Buzzing through my mind,
I’m an old heart prating,
Want to hold you close,
Hold you in my hands,
But I promise you’ll be free,
I won’t impose demands.

We’ll always be,
Wild,

You and me,
Like two honeybees~

My honeybee.

~FS

Lilly has the softest sweater,

It keeps her feeling good,

Every morning on her way, to the ferry~

Piper is an Irish Setter,

Old man of the neighborhood,

Watching squirrels dance down the road, makes him merry~

Planes crossing the sky,

People wave “Hi”,

Asking you, “How you doin?”

We’re out on a ride,

Then come on inside,

Having some pie…

La, la-la-la-la,

La-la-la-la,

La-la-la-la.

La-la-la.

(Repeat)

We’re all having daydreams in the park at Apple Tree Cove,

Sleeping under the sun, feeling like life’s just begun,

Butterflies glide through the air, sea otters, sea otters…

Sea otters playing in the waves without a care…

La, la-la-la-la,

La-la-la-la,

La-la-la-la.

La-la-la.

(Repeat)

Tina likes to tease her brother,

His name and Sara’s written in the sand,

A big heart around them, she thinks it’s funny~

In the park sits her mother,

Playing trombone in the city band,

Sometimes she plays in the rain, but now its sunny~

Planes crossing the sky,

People wave “Hi”,

Asking you, “How you doin?”

We’re out on a ride,

Then come on inside,

Having some pie…

Mm, mm-mm-mm-mm,

Mm, mm-mm-mm,

Mm, mm-mm-mm,

Mm, mm-mm.

~FS

Dandelion,
For a season,
Bright as sunshine,
Bold and free.

With a mane,
Of tender reason,
Brass-fire dewdrops,
Shine on me.

She’s a golden child of morning,
She’s the echo on the wind,
Dandelion’s bloom so full of burning,
This life’s beauty and its end.

Dandelion,
For a season,
Bright as sunshine,
Bold and free.

Rays of hope,
Beyond my reason,
Life’s pure kisses,
Made for me.

She’s a golden child of morning,
She’s the echo on the wind,
Dandelion’s bloom so full of burning,
This life’s beauty and its end.

~FS

In a forest, deeply sighing, sits a songbird, silently~

All around him, creatures crying, not this songbird, in his tree.

In a moment, in an hour, won’t the songbird, ever sing?

Not for glory, not for power, will that songbird, ever sing.

Songbird sang, at the dawning of the morning~

Songbird sings, at the laying down of warring~

Songbird sings, for the unity of all men~

But will Songbird, ever sing again?

Was about this time, last winter, that the songbird, came to me~

Like an angel, from a picture, with a warning, in my sleep.

I would tell you, if he let me, what he told me, while I slept~

The truths, that songbird told me, are all things, for which I’ve wept.

Songbird sang, at the dawning of the morning~

Songbird sings, at the laying down of warring~

Songbird sings, for the unity of all men~

But will Songbird, ever sing again?

There’s a fault line, running through us, right through every human heart~

With a power, to consume us, or a love, for a fresh start.

There’s a songbird, in the forest, and he waits there patiently~

Will he sing again, there for us, or will he sit there, silently?

Songbird sang, at the dawning of the morning~

Songbird sings, at the laying down of warring~

Songbird sings, for the unity of all men~

But will Songbird, ever sing again?

But will Songbird, ever sing again?

But will Songbird, ever sing again?

Will Songbird, ever sing again?

~FS