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“All this to say,
our future is a blank page;

that we chose to pour ourselves into

when God pressed play.�

God gives us a blank pages for our lives.  He gives us opportunities to allow Him to either create a beautifully scripted epic tale or we can throw mundane words together here and there when we decide to pick up the pen ourselves.  When the Author picks up a pen He knows how it will turn out; a waiting period where only He knows the end result.  When we decide to write over the ideas and plans of the author that masterpiece will never be completed as planned. 

We have the choice to let God pick up the pen and write our lives when he presses play. 
We have the choice to pour ourselves into that story.
We have the choice to pick up the pen ourselves. 
We have the choice to write out a bleak story ourselves.
We have the choice to keep the control.
We have the choice to wait and see what the Author has planned.
We have the choice to read His beautifully scripted epic tale of our lives.


“And we’ll drag our pens
into these parallel lines
to record and to articulate
everything we find.�

As a child we begin to have an ‘understanding’ of life (or so we think) and decide to grab the pen out of Gods hand.  We come to our own conclusions on why life pans out the way it does.  We write out our history in our own scribbled handwriting.   The definition of our history is now in the waiting.


“As decades unlace,
we’ll pause and carefully trace;
our shadows are puddles of ink
that our memory saves.�

As our lives progress from that of a child to an adult we reread what we wrote about our lives.  We reread where we strayed from the Author and His plans to instead write our own story.  Our scribbled handwriting looks more like puddles of mess rather then the beautiful script of the original Author. We realize when we picked up the pen we picked up the weight of it.



“Layer by layer,
the framework was formed
on an epic of paper:
we breathe to explore.
Fast-forward motion
will gracefully show
the flickering story
that all of our sketches unfold.�

We try to stay in the Authors framework but decide to explore on our own.  We turn the page and skip ahead to find out what happens next without reflecting on the present page.  We don’t wait on the Author to read it to us, therefore we pick up the weight of missing the important details when we figure it out ourselves.  Our pages are numbered.  We must soak up every page and hand back the pen to the Author to make the most of them.  


“Before we were born
God gently told us the truth,
but understanding is something that stops
as our bodies bruise.�

The Author wants us to understand life and its worth.  He wants to reveal to us the mystery of life.  Picking up the pen taints our ‘understanding’ of life.  Therefore, we bruise and our understanding stops the more we write.  We go through things in our lives and its our own writing hand that causes pain.  We stray from the author, its in our nature (thanks Adam and Eve).  We stray and that causes weight and waiting.

“So we’ll concentrate,
constantly rewinding tapes.
Was the ghost just a glare on the lens
that our minds create?
Our minds create…
when God pressed play.�

Throughout our lives we will look back and reflect.  We will see how far our pens have drifted from the Authors plans from the epic story He planned to write.  We see how much grace the Author extended for us to fit our scribbles into the elegance of His epic framework.  God hits play and God hits stop.  He knows the beginning and the end. 


It is our choice to give up the pen to the Author. 
Its our choice to let Him direct the story or to write it ourselves. 
Giving up the pen to Him is worth waiting for Him to reveal to us our lives Himself.
Giving up the pen to Him is worth the weight of His plan that He wishes to extend to us.

Its all worth the wait, worth the weight!

Lyrics in quotations of “All This to Say” – Sleeping At Last