aroha ataahua

Love is beautiful.

Where did you go? How long will you be gone? Did we abuse you and call you names?

The world sees love in a different light. In the dim light where everything will look the same, the worlds version of love has been shattered and molded, painted and covered in glitter. It looks perfect, it feels perfect, it is temporarily satisfying. It may only satisfy for the moment, a day, even weeks, months or years. But eventually lies surface, paint cracks, holes begin to show. The worlds love is full of lies, it whispers to the young hearts, and the pure souls speaking nothing but deceit over them. They fall for its tricks, they compromise their values, they give all they are to someone who will willingly take their hearts and will willingly throw them back when they’re done.

The world has turned love into nothing but a word and an action. If you don’t say this word, if you don’t do this action, you don’t know love. So many fall into the trap of wanting to please others, if they please others then they will be wanted, called beautiful, but this is false. Too many people sell themselves short, way short of their worth. Eventually all they are left with is heartbreak and an incredibly hurtful feeling of shame. This is what the world wants us to think love has to offer.

This is the biggest lie of all.

Love is perfect, it cannot be changed, molded, painted over or made to shine any brighter than it already is. Because it is beautiful and it is flawless. There is no scale for love, no one deserves more than anyone else for we have all fallen short and all deserve to be punished. BUT love, this love, God’s love. It restores the most broken heart, it cleans the darkest stain, it forgets, it forgives, it loves. Love is desperate to love to be spoken of to be acted upon to be seen. No more whispering, no more hoping that there is such a thing as unfailing love, it is here and it is ready.

Love is beautiful.

Beauty

you can be heard

marching across the line of freedom, for you will no longer stay still

your feet have walked this earth

time and time again.

you can be seen

in the lost, in the brave, in the weak, in the saved

you can be felt

with each smile, hidden inside the vulnerable

too afraid to speak your worth

afraid they may not listen

but you my friend, are beauty

you deserve every inch of love the world will spare you

for you were made out of love itself, you are the definition of beauty

the world will tell you so

the world will tell you no

the world will tell you go

you my friend are beauty.

the purest type, the type the world needs but never sees

stop hiding under the words of others

its time to show everyone what you deserve.

You my friend, are beauty.

Read all about it - Emeli Sande

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue You've spent a life time stuck in silence afraid you'll say something wrong If no one ever hears it how we gonna learn your song? So come, on come on Come on, come on You've got a heart as loud as lions So why let your voice be tamed? Baby we're a little different there's no need to be ashamed You've got the light to fight the shadows so stop hiding it away Come on, Come on

Yeah we're all wonderful, wonderful people so when did we all get so fearful? Now we're finally finding our voices so take a chance, come help me sing this Yeah we're all wonderful, wonderful people so when did we all get so fearful? and now we're finally finding our voices so take a chance, come help me sing this
 
I wanna sing, I wanna shout I wanna scream till the words dry out so put it in all of the papers, i'm not afraid they can read all about it read all about it oh

Lyrics from Emeli Sande - Read all about it. Such amazing lyrics, love this girl. Look her up, buy her stuff, fall in love with her voice.

This is a command ;)

Let's all love a bit more.

strangers at first glance
friends at first smile

i don't know you, but somehow we become friends with a hello, family with a story, dreading goodbyes with each laugh.

your life the opposite of mine.
meeting you made me love more.
love the unexpected hellos
the questions for directions
the interruptions for the time
breaking my silence with your life

no bible bashing, no Jesus naming, no church inviting, no religion smashing.
simple love.
love that talks, love that asks, love that smiles, love that steps over the line of strangers.

this is what we are meant to do.
befriend the neighbors that drink everynight, talk with the old man that gets his food from the bin, ask why a foreigner lives in my country.

love is asking out of the overwhelming need to be apart of the world of people. not out of the duty of our religion.

Jesus walked amongst the beggars, ate with the sinners. not out of his duty to save the world, but out of his heart of love..out of the need to ask how they were, what THEY were doing.

we all need to love a little bit more, don't draw the line at any point.
say hello.
smile.
handshake.
anything.
this world is desperate for love.

its desperate to be heard, to be welcomed in wholeheartedly, accepting the tattoos, the piercings, the wear and the tear, the sin that sits on us until we find love in the one who made love.

love is fighting for something thats out of our reach to change
its speaking up when everyone else won't hear your words
its standing up with shaking hands when the world won't look

its running towards what the world is fleeing
its accepting the wrongs and trying to make a right
love is perfect
love is justice
love is desperate to love

we are young

we are young

we still see the same world

we see the poverty

we see the depression

we see the broken

we see the lost

we don't have many years to back us up

we are independent

we don't want to learn from your mistakes, we want to make our own

we want to see everything for ourselves

not from stories 

we have eyes to capture everything

ears to hear the music the world makes

and to hear the cries of the lost

and the hearts to bring them back

not back to us

not back to a church

not back to reality

but back to love

we are young

but we see everything

and feel every emotion that rips through us more than anyone

we fall hard

we love easily

one glance and you would have us in a heart spin

beating hearts

fluttering eyes

we may be oblivious to many things around us

the price of milk doesn't matter

who buys our land doesn't matter

we see the bullies, we feel them the hardest

we are either for them or against them

we don't sit on the fence

we have such passion

even us, 

the ones who haven't been places

seen things

only heard

and only told

but we are young

but we are as powerful as anyone else, and maybe more so

our hearts beat with passion for justice and for the world

we are more of the world

because we are the world

we are young

we are free

we are dreamers

Grace

you were born with no limit
to walk miles amidst dreamers
no breaking point
no end

some see you as not important
they won't learn your language
they won't dance with you
capture you
live with you

out of their fear of the minute you will run dry
the thirst on their tongues
hunger in their belly
hope in their eyes
the screaming confusion that cries out

it makes the scribbles into a masterpiece
a hole into a well


you are limitless this they need to know
so they can hold you and know
that Grace is perfection

Tea.

I am drinking chai.
This makes me happy.
Good days are to come.

you are here.

it feels perfectly right to have you filling up my mind and becoming the rhythm to my heartbeat.
to have all of you engraved in my thoughts to where it becomes who i am.
the taste of you on my tongue with every word that leaves my body.
to feel you on my skin with each goosebump.

everything i am begins and ends with you.
everything i want to be starts with the thought of you and ends with the hope i have in you.
everyone i want to love, is loved by you.
everyone i find frustrating, is loved by you.

you are here.
when my heart is filled with unsure dreams and colourless thoughts.

you are here.
when my friends choose a different path.

you are here.
when all i need is love.

you are here.
no matter what i do, choose to do, or are destined to do.

you are made for here, and i am made to be with you.
nothing in the world is as comfortable, normal, reassuring, or peaceful as knowing that you are here.

here with me. for the rest of my days, and forever after.