Kabad

Kabad
The heaviness
I feel it hovering
I feel Him hovering
Like a great eagle over her nestlings
He is about to descend
And place Himself over us
And make us warm
With His fire
Which is Himself
And nothing else to us will matter
We will see nothing but Him
We will feel nothing but Him
We will hear nothing but Him
We will smell nothing but Him
I can sense the heaviness
It is wonderful
It is awesome
It is His
Kabad

K, Duane Carter 1-31-10

Transition

Transition

Lord, I have spent my whole life it seems focused on myself

And look what a mess I have made

They say there is no use crying over spilled milk

But what about a wasted life?

That to me is the sharpest knife

That is cutting on my soul, my being

But there is something that is cutting on that cruel knife

Something that carries the light of life

And that is You have chosen me before the beginning of time

There can be now no waste of my rhyme

That is so very freeing

You saw me in all of my life before one atom ever existed

Your love for Me was infinite and just simply persisted

Long before the starlight ever came to this earth

Long before I was brought to life in my birth

My all You were seeing

And still You chose me

My life is not wasted

For Your goodness I have tasted

In the truth You reveal

In the words You conceal

So that only I can find them

And in the finding the whole world knows Your glory

Through the simple telling of my story

Day by day by day by day

May what I do, what I say

Or even the things that I don’t

Show others the road, show others the way

And may all men taste Your goodness, Your glory

Simply because they see You in me

K, Duane Carter 1-23-10

Slant

The land slants toward the rivers

This is where it leans

And as the land, so goes my heart

Toward seeing what life does mean

I am placed upon a solid rock

And near me wicks of gold

I prepare my heart to travel on

To see the mysterious Love unfold

My journey to the rivers

Goes through the ever-greened wood

With each and every step I take

More Mystery is understood

The clouds move to the rivers

And that is where I drink

I decide to listen to His heart

And not to what I think

The land slants toward the rivers

Because it is cold and dry

And as the land, so goes my heart

Where traveling lower brings me high

The land slants toward the rivers

This is where it leans

And as the land, so goes my heart

I’m seeing now what this life means

K, Duane Carter 1-16-10

Downpour

Downpour
I’m just looking for a reason to live
I’m just searching for someone to forgive
Me
I’m just looking for a life that won’t ever leave
I wanna wake up in the morning and not have to bereave
I want to look up to the skies and know my hope isn’t just there
But it lives in me and breathes in me like I breathe the air
I, I, am looking for love
I’m not looking for a home that is swirling above
Me
I’m simply looking for a reason for living down here
I’m simply looking for the courage to step out of this fear
I, I, am looking for love and no more…
I, I am simply looking for love and no more…and no less
Is there not something there within me that cries out for love’s best
I’m just looking, looking out for what’s real
It’s surreal, it’s ethereal, can I feel, can I feel
It taking over my skin?
Can I taste of something good? For once can I win?
I’m just looking for that reason to live
I think that I could be somebody that I could forgive
I’m just looking for that life that never will leave
I wanna wake up in the morning and not have to bereave
So where is love? So where is love?
As I lift my head above, where is love?
I hear it calling
I hear it falling
Like the rain
Like the rain

Here is Love

K, Duane Carter 1-13-10

Ice Sculptures

I see a throne, and He who sits on it is white and majestic

Children climbing to get into his lap

Angels attending at His side

His arms open wide

Hands held high beside

There is such wonder in His sculptures

And the Water keeps coming

Yes the Water keeps coming

His rhythm still drumming

The rhythm still drumming

I see a throne, and He Who sits on it is pure

The cross for joy He did endure

So I could see Him in all of these things

And clap in joy and wonder

K, Duane Carter 1-10-09

Living

New Year’s Song (Living)
Starting fresh, starting new
There’s not much else left to do
But sit here and ponder
Sit here and wonder
But no, no, no that doesn’t go
It only leads my heart to woe
And split asunder
I split asunder
So step ahead, step ahead
Keep on going though the light is red
From all the others that say they’re brothers
But move along, move along
Cause I’m singing freedom’s song
And not another, never another

I’m going high, higher than ever before
Eyes to the sky, and my heart is still begging for more
I say my good-byes, and put my feet to the floor
No pain, no sighs, I’m just knocking on the right door

Going out, going forth, going long, going on
My heart is beating now stronger
I can feel the sunlight coming down hard, coming loud
And the days are now getting longer
I don’t know what to do, what to say, what to feel
Yet my soul has never been better
I don’t have to know anything at all, and I don’t have to know everything
I just have to believe in Your letter

I’m going high, higher that ever before
Eyes to the sky, and my heart is still begging for more
I say my good-byes, and put my feet to the floor
No sad good-byes, I keep knocking on the right door

You may say I’m history, a wanna-be
Or you may say nothing at all
I just ask, and I just seek, only seek, only knock
And into Your goodness I fall
I just fall, and after all
This is everything and anything, and is simply just living to me…

K, Duane Carter 1-2-10