Devastation: A Response To Tornadoes.

Devastation

A response to tornadoes

One fine spring evening

The sun went dark

Along came the twister

To leave its mean mark

One minute the storm

The next minute the calm

Then came the angry

Dropped down like a bomb

We’d seen her a-coming

A harsh wind did stir

She came to our houses

And took everything with her

 A noise like an angry train

That came beating us down

Rain, wind, rabble, and debris

In all this we drown

In fear we did hide

Low under the ground

Her harshness and anger

And black evil sound

When at last she did pass

We arose from our places

We saw the leveled homes

And tears stained our faces.

We thank God for His grace

Without any hesitation

His Grace still abounds

Though we’ve seen devastation



To Die Would Be An Awful Big Adventure!

Recently I have been thinking about heaven A LOT! I'm so excited to be there, I can't seem to get it off my mind!

I'm sooo excited to know God without hindrance, sin, or distraction! I'm so excited to be held in the arms of my Savior! I'm so excited to have a glorified body! I'm ready to be done with this sin nature! I'm ready for my faith to become sight! To see the streets of gold, crystal clear waters, greener grass than I can even imagine! I hope there are mountains in heaven. I'm so excited to see God's glory and rest in it.

Oh, how I yearn for it!

Phil Wickham sings a song called "Heaven Song" It's most definitely one of my favorites! Right now it pretty perfectly describes how I feel. The chorus goes.

I want to run on greener pastures
I want to dance on higher hills
I want to drink from sweeter waters
In the misty morning chill
And my soul is getting restless
For the place where I belong
I can't wait to join the angels and sing my heaven song!

In John 17:3 Jesus says, "And this is eternal life, that they may know You". Think about all the attributes of God that you can! Love, Righteousness, Justice, Almighty, Majestic, Holy, Unfathomable, Creator, Father, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Glorious, Beautiful, Gracious, Merciful, Wrathful, Perfect! Can you fully wrap your head around even one of these? It's impossible!!!! I have great hope in the fact that we will spend eternity knowing and understanding this Awesome God, on a much, much deeper level!

Oh, praise! Come Lord soon!

Come Easter Morning

This is a poem I just wrote about Easter!

Come all ye fair ladies

And men so genteel

And listen with care

As the story is revealed

Our God on His throne

So mighty and awesome

While down on the earth

A bloom starts to blossom

This bloom is called hope

Amongst hopeless men

This hope comes from Christ

Who saved us from sin

The cross where He died

Represents the wrath that was borne

The separation from God and men 

Oh praise, that veil has torn!

Christ made a way

For us to know God

Please don’t reject Him

Or call Him a fraud

The story is true

Of Christ and His cross

Salvation is here

All else is loss

My brothers and sisters

The time is now near

For us to celebrate

This story we hear

Thank God for forgiveness

And His perfect selection

Of a way to new hope

Through Christ’s resurrection!

-A.E. Bricker…..

A Man Named Allan And The Magical Shoebox -Prt .2.

My Gramps is so great! Whenever you hug him he gentle squeezes you and goes "hmt hmt hmt hmt mmm." the he'll pat your back and say "your a good girl." (if you're a girl that is).

Just two seconds ago my nephew came over to me and gave me a hug! "you're a good boy." I said subconsciously, don't get me wrong I knew what I meant, and I meant to say it. But it didn't hit me that my gramps always says that until after Ej walked away.

I don't know much, but this is one thing in life I know for sure. A hug has healing powers! :) Now don't misunderstand me, I am usually very anti-hug. But here are the exceptions; family, best girlfriends, people in mourning, and especially nieces and nephews!

Now back to healing powers, I'm tired, I'm frustrated, my back hurts, I have a severe cough, and a headache. first I came down the stairs and was tackled by a group of loving nieces and nephews, In an instant all terrible feelings went away, (even my back pains) and my heart felt warm. Then I was on the computer and Ej came over and gives me a hug, same thing, pains away, heart went warm.

Now I know why hugs make one say "Your a good girl."

Finite Thinking . . .

I'm so tired.

My whole life I've had this way of thinking "When I get older, everything will make sense.". Well here I am, 17 years old and nothing makes sense, everything makes less sense, in fact! A friend of mine once said "I went away looking for answers. . . But I only got more questions". I wrote down that quote because I remember thinking "that is so true!". The more questions I get answered the more questions generate!

And this is what gets me. I will have this issue, my whole life! "Since your only 17, how do you know that"-you, How do I know that!? Because, some of my role-models told me. These women are people I look up to and admire and respect. Dr. Helen Roseveare, Hannah Lee, Danielle! Each one of these woman have told me at one point in some way or other "The more you learn the less you know".

I think God did that on purpose. He is so Infinite, so Grand, and so Unfathomable, so that no matter how we search out the mysteries of life, no matter how hard we try to understand, no matter how hard we try to be infinite, we only fail and sink further into our finite-ness and our lack of knowledge.

God is so big, so holy, and so glorious, the more we know him, the sooner we understand how much there is to still learn about him!