I could swim to the bottom of the sea,
where the seahorse floats and the octopus play.
I'd ask the whales if they know you
and they'd say "Yeah, he tickles us everyday".
'Cause you're everywhere
You're everywhere
You're everywhere, oh
You're everywhere.
And I could climb the highest mountain,
and there I'd find a goat that knows your name.
I'd ask the pine if they'd seen you
and they'd say "Yeah, we praise him every day".
You're everywhere, God you're everywhere.
-You're everywhere, Benjamin Dunn& Friends
My letter to God; the one who reigns over all, yet bends low to listen to my heart,
For "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it." ( 1 Corinthians 10:26)
Sometimes God, I find you not in a service, but in-between the warmth of sunshine and the smell of rain. I believe I've seen you hiding somewhere beneath the Sycamore trees waiting for me to find you.
Sometimes I hear you say my name in the ocean waves, sometimes I hear it under my covers on a rainy day.
I've found you in art galleries, and you appear radiantly in anything that's done excellently.
The more I get to know you, the more I realize you aren't confined to a box. I think you must really hate being trapped, labeled, or stereotyped. You really like to surprise people, and I really like when you surprise me. I feel your delight over me at the sound of my heartbeat, and I can feel your joy towards me in my creativity.
God, grant me the freedom to think outside the box with you and live beyond my self imposed limitations.
I think you are more playful than I have imagined. I think you must be more fun than I was taught. I think your love over me is endless and unexpected. I just want to be your child, and find you in everything, because you are everything.
Break open my box, the prison of expectancy and agendas I keep you in. Teach me who you really are. Tell me what you really say. My greatest desire is to know you and be known by you. I leave behind the fear of what people will think of me and embrace the real you. I will find you in the mundane as well as the sacred. There is now no separation, you came to rip the veil in two, so rip away all that keeps me from you. I give you permission to expand my realm of imagination and creativity to grasp more fully who you are. I take off all limitations I put you in, and I will find you in the silence, as well as the chatter.
But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. But whoever loves God is known by God. (1 Corinthians 8:2-3)
