Radio Dream Machine

Radio Dream Machine

By Mariah Barkley

--A song

C-callin', c-callin', c-callin', c-callin'

All peoples out onto the stage

Black and white, young 'n grey

Not ashamed of our faith

Five six seven eight

Mountains dwarfed

And valleys short

As these people

Movin' forth

Callin' ev’ry boy and girl

Let’s go out and change this world

C-callin', c-callin', c-callin', c-callin'

All peoples out onto the stage

Black and white, young 'n grey

Not ashamed of our faith

Drop, stop, lock 'n dance

There is a fire

In our bones

It’s burnin' forth

The light is show’n'

Callin' ev’ry boy and girl

Let’s go out and change this world

C-callin', c-callin', c-callin', c-callin'

All peoples out onto the stage

Black and white, young 'n grey

Not ashamed of our faith

One two three four

Hungry for your Spirit, Lord

Give us more, let us know

Where you’re movin’ us toward

When you’re movin’ us forward

We’re ready, yeah, we’re ready

Five six seven eight

Mountains dwarfed

And valleys short

As these people

Movin' forth

Callin' ev’ry boy and girl

Let’s go out and change this world

Let’s go out and change this world

Hear the mighty sound unfurled

On your radio dream machine

Let’s pick it up! Let’s make a scene!

Callin' ev’ry boy and girl

Let’s go out and show this world

We’re not shamed by our faith

We are the voice of the saved

We’re callin’ ev’ry boy and girl

All the peoples of this world

Let’s shake it up! Let’s make Him proud!

His Spirit poured upon us now!

C-callin', c-callin', c-callin', c-callin'

All peoples out onto the stage

Black and white, young 'n grey

Not ashamed of our faith

On your radio dream machine

>:D

I had fun writing this one...not my first song but the most upbeat one.

--MovingGirl

Living an Epic Life

Had a good cry last night. Sometimes there are no words to express sorrow and grief, but I believe God hears those silent prayers too.
I believe that when Jesus wept, it was the same sort of wordless emotion. Nothing else to do but weep. While he may have done other things, the Bible chooses to show that emotion. It doesn't say he prayed, it doesn't say he spoke, or gave some clever words of comfort. Nope. He wept. And I know the Father heard his tears.
Heard his groans and anguish. Anguish.
It feels like a broken heart, or the sorrow of losing a loved one.
Sometimes, I think tears are more powerful than words. And I wonder if God stops to listen just to them.
Because we are coming to him with something that we cannot express, but that we know he can understand.
And even when my heart breaks, he's there with his warmth that says "Mariah, beloved, I hear your heart."
It's those moments that help you to realize you can go on, that you can survive the onslaught of whatever is thrown your way. That you can stand firm because God the Father is there with his warmth and his comfort to hold you when it gets hard.
And my day goes on. The night continues. I get up in the morning, get ready, stop by kaladis to get my coffee, and go to work. A normal day, in which nothing has changed, and yet everything has. It feels surreal to watch people laughing and carrying on like normal. It makes me wonder why I live everyday like that. Why I live with the knowledge of a God who is greater and live like I don't.
I want to live in such a way that people look at me and see someone else, someone they long for. Jesus.
I want to live like my life depends on someone greater. Like I live for something grander. Epic. Majestic.
What everybody seeks in their fantasy worlds and their movies and books and comics and dreams. I live like that in reality because of a God who is fantastic and beyond imagination. I live in a world and a story more epic than LOTR. And I am an important character in the story. I am Frodo. I am Sam. I am filled with the love of Jesus Christ and nothing, no earthquake, no disaster, no normal, dreary day can ever ever make him any less. 
I want to live in love with Him. So that when people ask me about my purity ring, I can tell them I am holding out for God's man for my life and until then and after God will always be my first lover, my first friend, and both this ring and the next will symbolize my relationship with him.

My heart breaks for Japan. But my heart knows that God is on the move, and I want to be ready, to stand prepared for what he is calling me to. No matter what.


--MovingGirl

Japan

So closely following my post about Egypt is this one.

Woke up this morning with no knowledge of the earthquake that occurred sometime last night in Japan.

Found out through various facebook stats and twitter updates. Many friends and family friends I know are in Japan or know someone close there.

Then I found the link to BBC's coverage of the tsunami and earthquake...

I cried. Cried and cried. I was devastated. 8.9. 8.9. 8.9.

I quivered.

My heart hurt, not sure how to feel, what to pray. You'd think you could think of something in this sort of situation, but there's a shock and numbing that comes. All you can do is watch, occasionally cry, and groan.

I don't know what to think. I want to be there. I want to help.

God, I don't care too much about the why, I understand we live in a fallen world and I trust in your grace and mercy, but I do want to know why now. I'm trapped here with my life, school, work, the house and a semester that still has eight weeks to go. There is no room for movement in my life right now. No possibility, opportunity, or option to go. To help. Even if I have nothing more to offer than my heart and my hands.

"No matter what, I'm gonna love you
No matter what, I'm gonna seek you
I know that you could find a way to keep me from the pain
but if not, if not, I'll trust you, no matter what."


--MovingGirl