Today, I want to answer this writing prompt in my usual, unusual way…by twisting it, to suit my writing needs!
Who do I spend the most time with?
I spend the most time with God.
Even though I may not be aware of His presence all the time, He is always in my mind and never leaves. Now that I have just written this sentence, I have an awareness of how Him and I, are always together 24/7. That’s huge!
Usually when we think of spending time with someone, it is with another human.
Today, I am thinking about the other me, “inside me”.
The one you never see but the one God always sees.
She is the one I spend my whole life with.
Spending time with yourself, is one of the most important inner relationships you will have.
This intrapersonal relationship exists in your mind.
This poem that I am posting today, talks about the significance of that me to me relationship.
We often forget we are there.
This is because we are spending time with other people.
“Self” gets lost in the process.
When we become aware of “a healthy self”, it is easier to build a *m.i.n.d.* relationship with God.
Then instead of saying, “It’s just me to me, we say with full confidence, it’s always, God and me!”
“And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”
(Philippians 4:8)
You are always a we
Never a me
Know that your mind
Is God’s supernatural design.
God is always inside
Your silent inner place
The words you speak here
Aren’t muted or late.
God reads your mind
As if your words are
Spoken aloud
He hears them instantly
Even in a crowd.
This outside noise
Doesn’t make it
Hard for God to hear
He still hears your mind
He is very near.
He made your mind, His
It doesn’t belong to you
He made it to be heard
But with only you.
God and you
Are always a pair
You cannot exclude him
But He is always there.
What are building
Inside this inner space?
Is it a mind of poverty
Or God’s daily grace?
Dear thinking soul,
You are building all the time!
Not with cement and bricks
But with God in your mind.
Your mind is like a world
That you cannot see
You can’t stand in
Front of the mirror
And see it visibly!
Remember your mind is hidden
IT talks to you all day long
IT can’t see outside your head
You must guide IT instead!
Consider that a thought is one brick
You then add more and more
There is no building company
Inside your head,
It’s only you, thinking more.
As you think more
The bricks grow and grow
Until finally one day
A new structure shows.
Not a visible
Building outside your mind
But a dwelling that you imagined
Of a hidden kind.
Stop and visit these buildings today
Open their doors
And listen to what they say.
Are these structures sound
And fortified in heaven?
Were they built
With Jesus
Or God’s truth hidden?
You forgot God, was there
When you built without Him
There was a lie planted there
It grew stronger with sin.
The enemy added “one more”,
It was a deceptive brick of his
He always built his foundation
You didn’t notice, it was his!
Do you see a building that’s huge?
Do you see a building that’s the tallest?
It’s the one that towers over the others
And God’s building is the smallest.
God saw humans build, one brick at a time
He was always watching their thoughts
They ignored His design.
They thought they knew better
So they ignored His bricks
Instead they used Satan’s
And he made their minds sick.
Do you see a building that’s the strongest?
Do you see a building that’s sad?
A building that’s spiritually empty
A building that makes you mad?
Aye yes, I saw mine too
I built it so very high
I took the enemy’s bait
I believed his lies.
Then God healed my mind
He crashed Satan’s design
He uprooted the lies
Of a dysfunctional kind.
With a renewed mind
I see IT today
I see IT in God’s mirror
IT speaks to me today.
Dear child of God
Be careful
Dear child of God
Think right
Your mind is
God’s holy place
It shines with heaven’s light.
Leave God’s light on
Every time you think
Remember to build
With golden bricks
God always
Hears you think!
Written by Helen Olenjin
Psalms 127:1-2, “Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.”
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