Introduction

Come closer
Come into this
Come closer

What beautiful battlefields you are
You are quite the beauty
If no one has ever told you that before
Know that right now
You are quite the beauty
There is joy in how your mouth dances with your teeth
Your smile is simply a sign of how sacred your life actually is
So come into it
Come closer

Know that whatever God prays to
He asked Him to make something of worth
He awoke from His dream 
Scraped soil from the spaces inside Himself
He made you, and was happy
You make the Lord happy
Come into this
Come closer

Know that something softer than us
But just as holy
Planted pieces of Himself into our feet
That we might one day dance our way back home
Know that you are almost there
Come just a little bit closer

There are birds beating their wings beneath your breastplates
Gentle sparrows who are aching to sing
Come aching hearts
Come soldiers of joy
Doormen of truth
Know that my heart was too big for my body
So I let it go
And most days this world has thinned me
To the point where I am just another cloud 
Forgetting another flock of swans
But believe me when I tell you that my soul has managed 
To squeeze itself into such narrow spaces
Place your hand beneath your head when you sleep tonight
And you may find it there
Making beauty as we sleep
As we dream
As we turn over
When we turn over in the ground
May the ghost that we have asked answers of do that turning
Kneading us into crumbs of light 
Into this thing of love called life
Come into it
Come closer

Come you wooden museums 
Gentle tigers
Little giants
I see teacups upside down
Glowing in your smiles
Your hearts are like my hands
Some days all they do is tremble
I am like you
I too at times am filled with so much fear
But like a hallway must find the strength to walk through it
Walk through this with me
Through this church of blood, bone, and muscle that is ours
There is a doorknob glowing like chance before you
Grab it, turn, pull, and let it swing open
Step through
Back straight
Chin up
Eyes open
Hearts loud
Walk through this with me - "Come Closer" by Anis Mojgani

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If you've never heard this beautiful spoken word poem before, I highly suggest looking it up on YouTube.

So, this is my blog! The name was inspired by the poem above and by 1 Timothy 6:12, in which we are boldly commanded to, "Fight the good fight of faith." The purpose of this blog is to encourage you to do just that.

We are all beautiful battlefields. We are all fighting this good fight, but we do not have to do it alone.

Walk through this with me.