I know my daddy he can make an emerald grow out of thin air
When sons and daughters used to say it's not worth investing there

You see there's a world starving for value and meaning
A culture with so many hearts bleeding
Asking in the silence of the night, am I worth it? Am I lovable? Am I good enough?

So what picture will your actions paint to a world in pain
Will it look more like a gavel slammed down on the wood grain or a blood stained cross that fell into the ground?
Will you be the place where the lost get found?

What story are you writing with your life?
You see your identity is the ink and your actions the Pen to answer the question, who will love me when?
I've lost my wife to addiction, no family no pension. I'm stuck in the cycle of no hope for tomorrow.

May your mouth be full of love drenched words and your heart wide open for the Son of glory to welcome home every poor, lost orphan.

This is the good news, this is the wide open door paid for in blood. And this door, this amazing man who paid that price, He lives inside of you. So what I am saying, what my spirit is imploring is Let Him out to every person you didn't know you were ignoring. So Let the King of Glory enter your family, your work place, and your city through you! For You precious prince, precious princess our the very living gates of Heaven!
(John 7:37-39)
Because the King of Glory has made his home in You! You are forever royalty!
So take this mandate and every week celebrate every prodigal that has come home, and every heart that's been made whole, every body that has been restored, and all the families made new. For this my precious child, this my dreaming boy and girl is the icing on the cake of your inheritance. Enjoy!

Wile living in seperate digital worlds have we forgotten the touch of grass, the feel of the wind on our faces? The drop-jawing gaze of a child looking into the wonderful star filled night sky for the first time. The warmth of the sun on our skin and the refreshing feel of a swim in a crystal blue lake. Are we not searching for beauty and then who to share that beauty with? I find God most often in the song of a morning bird or the sound of waves crashing on the sea shore. I am awestruck by a clear night full of twinkling diamonds in my eyes. We can never synthesize a replacement for the beauty of creation around us. 

All of this beauty and wild nature around us is screaming for us to realize who we are. We are more than animals in fact we are but a little lower than the angles. See Hebrews 2:7-8 "YOU HAVE MADE HIM FOR A LITTLE WHILE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS; YOU HAVE CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR, AND HAVE APPOINTED HIM OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS" We were made in our creator's image and therefore all men and woman have value (Gen 1:26) A mystery that nature is longing to solve is who are the sons and daughters of God? (Romans 8:19) 

The BIG question is, who are you? Once you have answered this, the rest of your life will by written with the ink of your internal identity.