lost items

to move on is to lose something.
but to not,
surely there will be no gain.
simple is what simple does.

some may say
no pain, no gain.
we are back to the beginning.
does it always have to be a struggle,
always a fight between the dark and the light?

say it ain't so.
say it ain't so.
when is it time to move on?
not just yet.
not just yet.

forget me not

Ain't nothing pretty about it, times of darkness. Those times are personal, those times are the most private. I think He meant it to be that way. May I not forget it. Recognize the wounds when the battle has finally ended and even when they are healed. They may be healed but they will always be there, just like His wounds. 

Feb 14th 2012 entry from Oswald Chambers' Utmost: 

Sometimes He puts us through the experience and discipline of darkness to teach us to hear and obey Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and He puts us into “the shadow of His hand” until we learn to hear Him (Isaiah 49:2). 

“Whatever I tell you in the dark. . .”— pay attention when He puts you into darkness, and keep your mouth closed while you are there. Are you in the dark right now in your circumstances, or in your life with He? If so, then remain quiet. If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood— darkness is the time to listen. Don’t talk to other people about it; don’t read books to find out the reason for the darkness; just listen and obey. If you talk to other people, you cannot hear what He is saying. When you are in the dark, listen, and He will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light.

After every time of darkness, we should experience a mixture of delight and humiliation. If there is only delight, I question whether we have really heard He at all. We should experience delight for having heard He speak, but mostly humiliation for having taken so long to hear Him! Then we will exclaim, “How slow I have been to listen and understand what He has been telling me!” And yet He has been saying it for days and even weeks. But once you hear Him, He gives you the gift of humiliation, which brings a softness of heart— a gift that will always cause you to listen to God now.