A poem for my husband...

I love poems...I love writing them and reading them. I can't believe I am going to post them. I think Anna Nalick says it best in her song 2am... " 2AM and I'm still awake, writing a song, If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, Threatening the life it belongs to; And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd, Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud; And I know that you'll use them, however you want to."

This poem was written after inspiration that came unexpectedly from the book of Joshua...

16And Caleb said, "I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher." 17 Othniel son of Kenaz, took it; so Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.
18 One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him [e] to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, "What can I do for you?"
19 She replied, "Do me a special favor. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me also springs of water." So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.


I am my beloved and my beloved is mine...
But this only is being revealed with time
For right now I belong to a Love bigger than I
I rest on a promise that has called me die.

Die? You might ask with bewilderment rightly so,
Yes, I would respond, with confidence that stretches from high to low
I've died to myself, my wants, and to this world,
Instead, I'm on a journey with eyes closed that requires me to say, Yes Lord

So back to my beloved, my Othniel, whom I will forever wait,
He is there, looking for His Tirzah, awaiting our fate;
But in the meantime, I will look to the horizon...
My eyes on the source which fuels my run

God keeps painting a sunset into my heart;
An adventure, of a role in a story in which I have a part
The truth is that it doesn't start when Romeo meets Juliet
It has already begun, when my heart and Jesus met.

As I rest on the hill full of life, joy and peace,
that I've found in my Savior who loves me without cease
I will still stand and look and wait...
as Ascah waited for a warrior to take as a mate

I too will not settle for only the hope of a distant land
But will wait for my Othniel to win precious Ascah's hand
And together our focus will be directed to our King
We will boldly ask for the upper AND lower springs.

"Ye receive not because ye ask not." John 16:24