I need Comfort Tonight....

Comfort

By: Erin

People cannot comfort your soul in a storm

Not to the point of turning your freezing emptiness into something warm

People are magnificent creations to be loved, celebrated, and appreciated too

But when you are drowning, God is truly the only one who can comfort you

He can silence the waves knocking you down

So you find breath just when you feel you may drown 

His word speaks truth into the painful moments that terrorize our brains

His Son came to break away all those painful chains

And in the end it is His love that remains 

God is love

God is trust

God is eternal

God is hope

God is power

God is comfort

He helps you stand after having fallen once again to the ground

He never leaves you – His love is forever and always around

People are magnificent creations to be loved, celebrated, and appreciated too

But God is the magnificent Creator is in love with you, here to comfort and help you through

Here to comfort and help you through

He’s always ready to whisper:

“I love you”

To Be Exceptional

To be Exceptional

By: Erin 

I don’t know when I became afraid of being labeled “mediocre”

But as the days went by I gradually raised my bar

Always convinced that I needed to push myself to every limit to go far

I first strived to meet other people’s expectations

Then push myself to be better out of fear of my very own limitations

All to be Exceptional

What ever that is or was anyway

It never stopped

No accomplishment was good enough

And then I dropped

My life had become one catastrophe after the next

And no one realized just how complex

The insides of my body, mind and spirit had become by my own intense drive

To be exceptional in the way that I push to strive and thrive

For my brain would say

If you don’t do it one hundred and ten percent – why do it anyway

But in all that time, I had missed the point of who I am living for

Which hurt my soul, my heart, my brain and more

To be Exceptional

Is to know how to take care of you the best way you can today

So that you are healthy to be there for others in that same way

It means knowing your limitations, your strengths and your weakness too

That way I can help people, and ask for help when I need it too

To be Exceptional 

Is to be true to your heart

To love people from the very start

To be kind to yourself and others without regard

And to step back, take a break, and rest (even when it is hard)

To be Exceptional

Needed to be re-defined inside of me to move forward with healing

And now looking back, my previous definition is so terribly unappealing

To be Exceptional