Everyone

May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.

-1 Thessalonians 3:12

Everyone wants to leave footprints.

            Everyone wants someone to follow those prints and find them.

            Everyone wants to be held. Be wrapped up in comfort and have their bad dreams driven away.

            Everyone wants to find the truth and be unchained from the baggage that’s pressed them down.

            Everyone wants to see a smile radiating from a face that shows they are special.

            Everyone wants to laugh from their core, joyful and unrestricted.

            Everyone wants forgiveness, reconciliation from a past that keeps pestering and won’t relent.

            Everyone wants to feel their heart burn for something spectacular.

            Everyone wants someone to sit down and just listen, to what they say and what they don’t.

            Everyone wants to be remembered.

            Everyone wants to never be forgotten.

            Everyone wants to find stillness in the midst of a chaotic and cluttered world.

            Everyone wants to be redeemed, washed in the waters of grace and dried fresh and free.

            Everyone wants to be loved, deeply, purely, without reason or clause.

 

            We all want more from our lives.

          

            It’s true.

            And you know it’s true because all of it is what your soul cries out for.

            For those footprints in the sand.

            For the footprints to follow.

            For the smallness of your troubles when nestled in safe arms.

            For discovering reality and eyes opening to a bright and believable realization.

            For the kindness of a stranger.

            For that lighthearted laughter.

            For being big and admitting mistakes, and having someone bigger tell you they are no more.

            For an ignition sparked in your soul.

            For the willing ear and hearing heart.

            For memory in your honor.

            For never letting go.

            For the quiet gently covering that chaos.

            For that grace so readily given.

            For a love that never ends.

Prayer:

Father, hear my heart’s calling, for the tremors deep within me that cry out to be heard, for their story to be told. Amen.