Spectating

Be no longer a spectator
Go 'all in'
Jump into the pool of life
And love
with abandon

Get up out of that bleacher
Filled with passive onlookers
The crowds
Believing a lie
Telling themselves life is there
In the watching
Avoiding the danger inherent
In living with passion
Often critically demeaning others' attempts
Yet secretly wishing they were one of participants on stage

So Engage with the seemingly mundane
Step into the ring
Plunge into the pool of uncertainty
Battle for your life
Because you're losing it on the fence
Of indecision and fear
Lulled into complacency
Accepting the little scraps of meaning
Shed from the meals of those risking
Failure and shame
As you watch and wonder
If there is more to life
than this leering...
A habit
crying out to be broken

Get out onto that stage
Speak your lines with passion and gusto
To all who would listen

Whether it be understood or dismissed
Your voice matters
Your heart must be heard
It is cherished

Disclose the inner workings of your soul
To those who dare to know
The depths of you

Engage in hope
For he reigns
And keeps you near
Prodding and pushing you into the light
Leading you to life
Never will he fail you

Standing on the sidelines
Will not result in fulfillment
Just anguish and angst
Regrets and fears
That rule without purposeful action
To Overcome the passive

Be strong and courageous
For the One who holds the stars in the sky
Has planted a seed of the brightest light
in the dark depths of your being
Desperate for the Son's endless power
Aching to breakthrough the hard soil of inaction

So put down the playbill
Pick up the props granted
Clammer into your wardrobe
Valiantly walk onto the platform stage
Join him in his ocean of grace

And live



Written March 30, 2015
Inspired in part by Ezekiel 3