Tuesday, April 28, 2009

27 / 30 : cram.

oh GOOD GOD MY EXAM IS WORTH 50 PERCENT OF MY GRAAAAAAADE AHHHHH

cram

everything i should have learned
this semester in 24 hours
is packed into my head
only to regurgitate it back
and pray for an A
damn. Lord help
me to cram this info in and
pass this exam

Sunday, April 26, 2009

26 / 30 : sunday morning.

today, i took it easy. church. post church brunch. post brunch nap. post nap chit chat with the bff. and now a post chit chat poem

sunday morning

i can honestly say
although i'm ashamed to admit that
i woke up this morning earlier
than i ever do on the Lord's day
i haven't been to one church
in Nashville since I first walked
through the gates in 2006

my home church i love dearly and
the search for something new
seemed like a daunting task
that i have been intentionally
putting off but no time is better
than the present
even if the present is the last
sunday of your junior year

and we parked onto a gravel parking lot
which took me back to the old days
in south carolina in my
one room church and the pews
felt warm and worn and 
faces i had never seen before
looked familiar and loving and
my bible that hasn't seen any church
since back home over christmas
opened eagerly to psalms 63 and
i fingered the pages gently
looking through the notes i had made
in years past 
this bible is 17 years old and has been
through every spiritual up and down
that i can recall

and as i went to the alter and kneeled to
pray the tears fell because after all this time
after sunday morning brunches after
a scandalous saturday night and after
this year 
the year that Satan tried to get me to
submit my soul to him over i couldn't help
but feel at home in the house of the Lord
and i wept

and along the way
i forgot somehow
that the house of the Lord
isn't just one church in Cincinnati
where they come together in his name
there He shall be