I wrote this piece because I saw someone that was hurting, and then realised that a lot of us are really hurting but that we just need to let God deal with it.
"COME TO ME, ALL OF YOU WHO ARE TIRED FROM CARRYING HEAVY LOADS AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. TAKE MY YOKE AND PUT IT ON YOU, AND LEARN FROM ME, BECAUSE I AM GENTLE AND HUMBLE IN SPIRIT; AND YOU WILL FIND REST. FOR THE YOKE I WILL GIVE YOU IS EASY, AND THE LOAD I WILL PUT ON YOU IS LIGHT" Matthew 11:27-30
Burdens...
Whose burdens?
Ours...
The hurt and the shame?
Remebering sin and the pain?
Those times when we shouldn't
but did?
And things we could but didn't?
Our burdens
That we carry around each day
The ones that hold us back
From seeing Him
From knowing Him
From accepting Him
From understaniding Him...
Those burdens that are weighing us down
So much
We can't even fake a smile or a laugh
We can no longer fake the joy we don't feel
These burdens
Which we refuse to give up
We are so broken yet
We hold on
To the hurt, the shame, the sickness, the pain
When He's there
Just begging - for our burdens
Just wanting us to exchange them
For His much lighter burdens
His burdens are as light as feathers
As flowing as air
Yet we refuse to even hear Him out...
He's just pleading with us
Just to give them all to Him
He's done so much for us
And continues to...
He went to the cross for us
See, His nail scarred hands
He did this all for us
Because He knew we were hurting
He gave His life...
So we could have life
He cries when he sees us suffer
Without reason
He loves us so...
So why don't we let Him take them?
He wants to see us free
So lets just give up-
Give up trying to keep these burdens
Give up trying to hold back
Give up trying to act like we're ok
When we're not
We just need to let go
And be free
Just as He made us to be
~Jordanna Guthrie
Welcome!
Welcome Everyone!
My name is Sasha Allen and I am the Literature Coordinator of UCCF for the 2010-2011 academic year. I merely seek to build on the well established foundation that Xavier Lloyd and Jordanna Guthrie (Past Literature Coordinator and Assistant respectively) put in place on this blog.
May you be truly and deeply blessed as you read these posts.
Official Welcome from Xavier Lloyd
Welcome reader, to the UWI, Mona UCCF Literature blog. My name is Xavier Lloyd, and I humbly hold the post of Literature Coordinator within UWI UCCF. For those who don't know, UCCF is the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship and UWI is the University of the West Indies.The aim of UWI UCCF is to know Christ and to make Christ known to our campus, and everyone we come into contact with. After much prayer and deliberation, I thought it was time for new ways of spreading inspired writers to be introduced within UCCF and being the tech-savvy person I am, starting a blog seemed like the best course of action. This is also in keeping with our aim as technology seems to spread news faster than anything else nowadays. It is my prayer that the words found here are borne on eagle's wings to places inconceivable to myself and that they fulfil their purpose in edification of the flock, spreading the gospel of salvation of Christ Jesus, and bring glory and praise to the one true God of heaven and earth.
The purpose of this blog is to share poems, prose, songs, plays, articles...just whatever words God has inspired His sheep to put on paper, with interested individuals. My aim is to encourage the flock at UWI, Mona to write and express themselves as a form of giving glory to the Most High God while improving their writing and critical thinking skills at the same time. I would like for us modern day writers to be on par with writers of old like David and Solomon, for us to be men and women after God's own heart, for us to be bestowed with wisdom from on high, and for us to continually use words to praise the Lord.
Please enjoy browsing around and feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, criticisms, prayer requests, or any material you feel lead to share with fellow readers.
God bless!
Psalm 19:4
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
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