My mother and father do not dream.
To dream is to risk some things:
like failure and fault or hurt.
If that simply comes with age,
let me never come to those days.
My mother scowls at the unseen.
My father despises everything,
that looks like a remnant of what
he had hoped for. So, whenever
they see me, it like looking at lost
dreams.
It's like a surrender of just being,
and not thinking
and not creating
and not waking
up to the fact that life's dreams
are the only certain things
to bring life worth living.
I swear by my name, you do not know how I adore you. My child who I framed in the womb of your mother I wrote songs about you before you were done taking your first breath And, I had dreams about how I would give your everything and rest from your labors You thought you could labor to love me You thought if you labored I'd love you more than I do, but child, my child, MY child If I had made you for any other reason but to love you, I had blaphemed my name. Do not be cast off or go astray today I am telling you the truth I am bringing heaven down to be with you and to heaven you'll ascend just look within I've giving you my Spirit. I've given you my heart. And, I will never leave you no, not any more than the waters can leave the shores I want to permeate your every part Illuminate the places you've given over to dark desires I will wash upon you, through you and make you clean when you stop hiding and allow me I swear by no others, but by my great name there are none else before you I AM's your first name.
It is said that females are given away, and take on the name of their husband. Surely, we are the bride of Christ, but Daddy God is saying. I gave you a first name, not a last name. Before Abraham I AM. Before Jennifer I AM. Before Lis I AM. Your first name is I AM, just like His.
I think that I put this poem on video, but I never uploaded it. Anyway, I'm clearing out my old journals, and I found this one.
You have a talent
whether hobby or game
You have a talent
That's known like your name
You have a talent
that you love to build
You have a talent
that you must not yield
You have a talent
for which you can say
it sets you on fire
I'll do it each day
Come teach that talent
I'll show you today
how others make thousands
the empowered way.
-Lis Carpenter
And, that was the launch of http://www.theempoweredway.com for me. The idea is that you can really learn how to profit from teaching others about your talents and tapping into online communities, interest groups, that you would enjoy anyway, and profit from it.