I was sitting at White Oak park thinking about my lesson on Revolutionary Freedom. As I was walking to the bathroom looking around at the water and the trees and the big blue sky the repeating line of this poem just came to me. "This is how it feels to be free". Another story about this is that my computer died while I was writing it and I thought I had lost all of it. I wanted to add the line "to lose words and not worry because I know that there will be more words" but no one would understand that but me.

Performance poetry piece that I used in our Spoken Word Worship gathering (check out the book Engaging Worship for the complete gathering outline). It is a simple poem about the way worship is fluid: sometimes it is engaging, some times it is full of distractions, and then in the next moment it is an encounter with God.

Performance poetry piece about my own insecurities. This came out of a time in my life when I honestly was having an imagined dialog from God and when I got a chance to ask Him one question the question I wanted to ask was "Am I good enough." It is the first perfomace piece I presented so I have a soft spot in my heart for this one.

A performance poetry piece that takes an honest look at what I worship. I give lip service to worshiping God, but too many times the truth is that if you look at my life my praise goes many other places. Two notes, Sun-Drop is a citrus soda and the italic portion is to be sung to the tune of "How Great Thou Art".

A poem about how we often refuse to go to God and ask forgiveness. I don't know why I carry burdens around as much as I do instead of giving them to God.

This is a poem about God's love for us and how He is pursuing us with that love.

This is a collection of student poems written in our poetry prayer station at Winter Retreat 2007