today

1. Emma came down last night

her eyes, Emily's eyes, bright 

Meghan will be around more too, I can tell

crammed into the garage with us, praising the King

(this summer the entire neighborhood will hear)

the rain on the roof

the spirit alive

Emma's got something comin to her, a little unusual of a

beautiful life

something wrappin her hair up to keep the sweat back

on the plains of Africa,

child at hip

2.

talking under the projector

he's eating salad and proclaiming God's fullness

inside

x-men? 

today, Im beginning to understand the way of them

the sharing of cigarettes

they fight for each others boundaries and sip from each others drinks

Michelle explained the knives yesterday and the pushing to keep him off Marv

You'd understand if you were with me, the story was muddled and drunk but a real story of a hard life

they have to share to stay alive, to make it

I'm beginning to understand the way of them

and why its so hard to walk away

from fear, addiction, people that get it

Mario's commenting on her necklace, she is showing him on the porch

playing cards on the tall tables

he is singin The Animals and Amazing Grace in the living room

because this place is filled with God, that's why we're here

don in the next room, fiddling with crossword puzzles and remotes

Chip writing love songs to God on the living room floor, the first time I have ever seen him cross-legged

God

God?

what do you want to do with me here?

I'm excited and ready and a little scared and thrilled

God?

everyday, let me feel your shoulder under my chin.

you in my voice and

in my paintbrush

my camera

my eyes

give me your heart 

mostly

just give me a heart that is like yours

emit light out of that n

(and out of Emma)

P.S. Marie is now staying with us, giving up cocaine so that she can be a mother fit for her 5 year old child who lives in Muskegon, keeping herself busy cooking scrambled eggs and playing solitaire. Last night God was dealing with her, she was sitting at the foot of the cross weeping. Pray that it will be easier to get off the addiction than expected. and mostly that she finds Christ as her security and nothing else.

Also, pray Michelle comes back at 5 like promised. Coffee with be on for her then.