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Love. It's a wave I ride that won't ever reach the shore... Overwhelmed by the tide and wanting nothing more tonight, than to take this time and make it all mine.

It's coming around again...

Every now and again sometimes I get lost on the wind of a dream. The air gets clean and the seas get wide and I can do anything. The pain won't even cross my mind, there is wonder in everything. The rope gets loose and the chains unbind and I can do anything.

Hope. It's the light that strikes that burns inside of me. It's a binding light but somehow I can see again when I've lost my way. It's becoming very clear.

It's coming around again...

Every now and again sometimes I get lost on the wind of a dream. The air gets clean and the seas get wide and I can do anything. The pain won't even cross my mind, there is wonder in everything. The rope gets loose and the chains unbind and I can do anything.

Somewhere between the darkness and the light my spirit takes flight. The colors fill the sky and I am free.

Every now and again sometimes I get lost on the wind of a dream. The air gets clean and the seas get wide and I can do anything. The pain won't even cross my mind, there is wonder in everything. The rope gets loose and the chains unbind and I can do anything.


-- Mae, from The Everglow CD

As tempting as it is, I cannot be overwhelmed by all the atrocities in the world or in this country, or even in this City of Brotherly Love. I dare to ask why and for what reasons these things happen, but buried in the pit of my belly, I know why. It's more than just pent up frustrations or twisted psychology or revenge. It's a darkness that dares to claim people as its own, a spiritual beast that devours with each step in alleys the of America and China, the desert of Sudan and Iraq, and all over the world. It's a beast that says that the life of every living thing - human or otherwise - is totally expendable and at the mercy of those who pretend to be God.

I want it to stop, and I pray and I long for the day of the Lord -- when there shall be no more tears or bloodshed or death. But I realize that I am an agent of Light, and I cannot be overcome by evil. I can't curl up in a little ball, brought to a spit of helplessness in the face of the work of satan... With tears and confidence I must come before the Lord for those who are in that darkness, who are overcome by evil, who act in evil and are affected by evil. The One who is in me is the One who can overcome evil with Goodness, Holiness, and Truth. I pray that I can be used as God's tool to bring this to people so they can see beyond the darkness.

"I can do everything through Him who gives me strength."
"...the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world."