Skip & Spin

Few simple things make my day. A short sentence, a well intentioned phrase. A favour, a thank you note. An encouraging gesture. An arm around your back. A smiley typeface. A quick slip in and out of the chat room of this gmail fodder. Distractions that makes for fuel efficiency at work. Messages lighting up my phone with emoticons that hint of renewing life to come. The hours will pass. This difficult bump in the day will be over. Dinner will be served. Family time will happen. A warm car ride is just right across the building.

Makes my heart skip. Make it do a silly dance and spin around. Let the caffeine and sugared muffin hit the roof. 500 hundred more and it'll all burn out. This oppression in barter trade is only temporal. It will soon pass. The music in my head will keep spinning and my heart will go on. No one can take this shuffle and feet away. They can try and fragment my life and thought patterns but they cannot stop the slick and sure stubborness when it all comes back together. How much can they do? Just a drop in the ocean. The ocean of His boundless love and grace for me and my life.

For my God is bigger than the towers we're trapped in. My God is better than the air that I breathe. My God is mighty to save. Goes before my enemies, fights valiantly and chargrills them all, snuffs them out from the life of the earth, one by one, sure and steady. He rides the storm He brews and charges through like a torrential windpowered jet.

For while the clouds descend in disguise, smouldering every effort of my enemies, He pours a warm cup of wine and gives it to me, to keep my hands and heart warm. Sleep for the night and strength for another day.

Give me this day my daily vegemite, that I may grow strong in You. Tempt me not with these sugars that fizzle out the fire. That I may do good in the day of Your hour. For this is all Your doing, Your purpose, Your destiny. Let all of Your design be made complete in me and my family and this earth You give dominion over.

You renew my beaten body. You keep my heart skipping and my melodies spinning.