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.

Monday, August 31, 2009

The need to be healed: Inner Healing

I just think that this is so powerful.

Words from the author:
From my own encounter with Christ I have been able receive emotional healing from bitterness and unforgiveness. I believe that being able to forgive and release persons who have wronged you enables you to receive that peace that passes all understanding and healing that seals up the emotional scars that you may have received along the way.
LISTEN NOW, MY PEOPLE, AND COME TO ME; COME TO ME AND YOU WILL HAVE LIFE! Isaiah 55:3a


Inner Healing

My father?
Extinct,
Such species are rare
Endangered perhaps,
Who cares?

Forgiveness!
Him?
That commodity is too precious to waste on him
So, I carry this burden until…

My heart

Given, hoping to receive love
Reward, fragments and pieces
The source of the destruction did not care!
The walls went up
I withdrew
My wounds stay hidden
This will never happen again
So I carry this burden until…

People?

You can’t trust them as far you can throw them
They expect this impossible perfection from you
Yet they are the worst sort when it comes to failure
You’re never good enough
Don’t please them,
They’ll reject you
Turn their backs

People…(sigh)

Anger, I let it build
It turns me on, makes me feel better
Hate, I love it
To all the ones who hurt me
You’re killed in my thoughts, die!
Resentment, makes coping so much better
Bitterness is bliss

LIES!

I am torn
Tattered
Tormented inside
Inside me is a grave yard
A field of death and sorrows
Covered up by my smiles
Laughs, success and “love” for people
I want to scream and tear my eyes out
And now…

I have been carrying these burdens for so long Jesus
They are just too heavy
I am tired of hiding and covering up my pain
The band aides have failed
My emotional shields and walls make it worst
Jesus, I open up my heart now
I don’t want to run anymore
Jesus, I lay it all down before you!
Jesus, I forgive the ones who hurt me
I release them!
The unwanted baggage
The loads, the burdens
Give me life that I can truly live
Give me hope that I may look forward

Give me love.

Jesus, thank you.

JESUS!


~ Joseph Collington
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