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Inked- Part 4

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So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. -1 Corinthians 10:31

I am your living canvas in which you outline your plans.

Will you adorn me?

Will you dip me just enough into the ink?

Will you merge my casing with the perfect dye?

Will you carve out straight lines for me to follow?

Will you give me the strength to handle the fill?

Will you highlight my faith with a dazzling, heavy-duty blonde?

Will you tint my hope with an everlasting, resilient navy?

Will you paint my love with a deep, lasting blush?

Will you forgive me for this outward display?

Will you tattoo your art on my heart eternally?

Inked- Part 3

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But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin. – Romans 14:23

He wears sleeves

To warm chills of abstracted motifs

To cool the warmth of picturesque memoirs

 

His graffiti is synesthetic

Illusions of appetizing anecdotes

Silhouettes of fragrant fairy tales

 

His typography is aesthetic

Caricatures of gritty gossip

Shadows of silent sagas

 

I’m a voyeur of his decorations

My prejudiced perspective is absorbed in aspiration

 

I trace the lines and devour the iconography

His delicious artwork entices me with each sting of his needle

 

The ache animates my need of markings

My life without your canvas is an allegory of nothingness

 

Render me of your palette

Please permanent me with your stains

Inked- Part 2

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Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. -1 Corinthians 6:19–20

To mark flesh,

To mark beauty

Of forever scars,

Of tales of trials.

 

We pain for stains,

We surrender splendor

For distinctive attributes,

For therapeutic means.

 

We disobey laws,

We defy commandments

By destroying our temples

To further our desires.

 

To be marked of sin,

To be marked of offense

Done by His children

To free them from evil doing.

 

Inked- Part 1

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Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. – Leviticus 19:28

You grin at me

My spine shivers with fear

Anticipation of your damage

I’m intoxicated with antiseptics

Commemorated by buzzing melodies

Dyed bullets fire

I’m injured, bleeding of your victory

As you dress my wound

You Are What You Think

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This video was shown during service last Sunday. I found myself almost crying by the end of it because it struck a cord. Of course I was affected by the fact that I don’t see myself in a positive light. But what really struck me were how the strangers perceived each other. It made me wonder how I was being perceive by my peers, by my customers or better yet, my own loved ones. Do my negative thoughts, my negative perceptions of myself affect the people I come in contact with? Does my constant self-deprecation eventually cause other people to see me in that same light?

Furthermore, the message that Sunday was that to really start living a Christian life, one must change their thoughts. There should be this renewal of your mind. Because your mind is always going and can constantly be diverted, you have to find a way to keep your mind open. Simply put, “set your mind to flow with the spirit.” Now, I’ve never been a very positive person so this is very hard for me to do. But it’s a battle that I’m ready to take on because I do not want my thoughts to affect one’s opinion of me. The undoing of the years of low self-confidence just might take years! But again, if I am to draw closer in my relationship with God, in my relationship with other people, I have to change my thoughts and perception of me.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5