The Heart of a Lion

27 years… Wow! What a blessing. Happy Birthday to me!

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:32:53 -0400

27 years… Wow! What a blessing. Happy Birthday to me!

What More Do I Have To Give?

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 10:51:25 -0500

Broken down and frustrated,

Tired and sore,

What more do I have to give?

Stressed out from life,

I feel like I’ve given,

All that a man can give,

Rejuvenation is what I need,

That good lovin’ that God provides,

More of Him and less of me,

Cause what more do I have to give?

My strength has been depleted,

Truly I feel defeated,

I’ve become nothing more than weak,

But isn’t that the very thing we need,

In order to become meek?

Submissive to the father,

Once I wouldn’t have bothered,

But now it’s like I don’t have a choice,

You can’t outrun God,

Cause once you’ve run OUT,

Of all you got,

You’ll realize that He is,

All you’ve got,

Then you’ll start to count your blessings,

And truly become thankful,

For all the things you have,

Cause there’s somebody out there,

Yes, there’s somebody out there,

Who is praying for half of what you have,

Somebody without running water,

Somebody without electricity,

Somebody without a mother or father,

Somebody without a home,

Yet, if you give your heart to God,

He’ll give your heart a home,

So when I say,

“What more do I have to give?”

It’s not a sign of me giving up,

It’s a sign of desperation,

In conversation,

With God to whom I’m giving up,

I’m not giving up on life,

But I’m giving UP,

My life to Him,

I’m giving UP,

Praises to Him,

I can’t give up,

On the give UP,

Cause the One who is UP,

Never gave up,

On me,

What more do I have to give?

As long as I have life in my body,

God’s love in my heart,

Eyes that see,

Ears that hear,

What more do I need, to give?

Look Me In My Eyes

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:05:43 -0500

Beautiful you are baby,

Yes, you’re beautiful to me,

Look me in my eyes baby,

Let me tell you what I see,

I see a woman full of imperfections,

A woman who wants to be loved,

A woman with battle scars on her heart,

Yes, scars from the past guys,

That tore her heart apart,

I see a woman who feels weak,

Weak and feels like she has nothing left,

Because she gave her all to the past guys,

Then they up and left,

Look me in my eyes baby,

Let me tell you what I see,

I see a woman who thinks she’s ugly,

one who doesn’t know her worth,

Cause if she knew what I knew,

She wouldn’t be caked up,

With the make up,

She wouldn’t let the world define her as fat,

Big, small, short, tall,

Skinny, round, big and brown,

I don’t care what you are,

You’re beautiful,

Now how does that sound?

Might seem like a foreign concept,

To hear it from a man who doesn’t expect,

To have sex,

Or to get your number so we can text,

No! I just want you to see you,

The way that I do,

A woman so beautiful,

She’ll make me say “I Do”,

Truly I’m talking about your personality,

But what a blessing it must be,

to have a face to match all that inner beauty,

Look me in my eyes baby,

Let me tell you what I see,

I see a woman who deserves,

Nothing less than the best,

Any man who can’t see past your butt and your breast,

Well then he doesn’t deserve the key to your treasure chest,

And while we’re on the subject,

About your hidden treasure,

If he hasn’t prayed to God for confirmation,

That you might be the one,

If he hasn’t put a ring on it,

Watched you walk down the aisle,

Read the vows,

And finally been pronounced as “husband and wife”,

Please by no means,

Don’t open your legs for any temporary pleasures,

Come here baby,

Let me wipe the tears from your eyes,

One last time baby,

Look me in my eyes,

You’re beautiful,

You’re amazing,

And most importantly,

You’re loved,

Now look here in the mirror,

So you can see exactly what I see.

To My Future Wife: Part 2

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:55:00 -0500

Dear Mrs. Highsmith,

Hey babe, it’s me again. I’m back to let you know that God is truly preparing me for you. This week in itself has been one where He’s pealed away at the layers of my heart, He’s been strengthening me, and my patience has been tested too! It’s all for you though. I’m been strengthened so I can be the strong man you need me to be. My patience is being tested so that I don’t lose it with you, and He’s pealing away the layers of my heart so that it will be right for you. He’s placing an abundance forgiveness, love, compassion, healing, and comfort in my heart, and those are all things that I plan to share with you.

I need it to be clear with you that I don’t care if you’re 100 or 300 pounds, a size 0 or a size 20, you will always be the most beautiful woman in my eyes. On days that you don’t feel beautiful, I’ll be the one to tell you you’re beautiful. Even when you’re looking your absolute best, I’ll still let you know that you’re beautiful. I’ll remind you of it everyday so that you never forget, and I’ll look you in your eyes every time so that you can see the sincerity in my heart.

If you ever did feel like you were overweight, I wouldn’t call you fat, but I’d encourage you to work hard for the size you wanted to be. I’d be right there with you workout daily, or however often we were able to workout. I’d push you as much as you needed to be pushed, but I wouldn’t over do it. Just enough to motivate you to get where you want to be.

I promise to support you in your goals and dreams, but I need you to do the same for me as well. Let us encourage, push, and motivate each other to be the best people we can can possibly be. Not only as individuals, but as a couple as well. We’ll have our days when we’re frustrated, tired, annoyed, irritated, and fed up, but that’s what we’ll have each other for. To keep each other going.

Let us be so deeply enrooted in the Word, that nothing will be able to come between us. I don’t mean just pray for each other, but with each other. Not just read the Word, but study the Word. It will be important for us to be enrooted in God not only because of the commitment we made to Him and ourselves, but because of it, our spirits will be so connected to each other that no temptation or sin of this world will be able to break us apart.

I need you to know that I’m abstaining from sex. I want to be as pure as I possibly can for you. I’m not a virgin, but I’ve made a pact to save myself from you. I can tell you it’s not always easy, but to think about how much it will be worth it to know that I waited for you…now that is true joy. With that being said, you better get ready for when we get married, cause once we get on our honeymoon, I’m not holding anything back. I’ll love you every way imaginable and we will have our own “Songs of Solomon”.

Just the thought of the future we’ll have together brings a smile to my face. I can truly imagine my life with the most amazing woman in the world. Us laughing together, dancing, hugging, cuddling, kissing, cooking, watching TV, walking in the park, going on dates, vacations, and the list goes on. Clearly, we aren’t together yet, but God is giving me hope, and a vision for our future. I hope….I believe that He’s preparing you as much as He’s preparing me. I just hope you’re as excited, and looking forward to it as much I am. Until the next time…. Love you, and take care.

Love,

Mr. Highsmith

"In order to be a good writer, you have to put your thoughts together. But in order to be a great..."

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:12:00 -0400

““In order to be a good writer, you have to put your thoughts together. But in order to be a great writer you have to write from what you feel inside””

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great..."

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““The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.””

- Williamson Arthur Ward

To My Future Wife

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:51:00 -0400

Dear Mrs. Highsmith,

If it’s not already obvious, I just want to know that you’re being thought about. I love you already, and I’m looking forward to the life that we will spend together. I’ll love you in the morning, throughout the day, and all through the night. And when I say all through the night, I’m not talking about sex. I’m talking about holding you through the night. Having my arm wrapped around you and holding you close to my heart. I want you to feel safe and know that I’m always there.

I look forward to our future together. Our date nights will be fun, and I promise to do something different every time to keep things interesting. I could never be perfect, but I promise to be the best man that I can possibly be. I promise to love you even if I’m mad at you. I promise to always stand up for you, no matter what. I promise to protect you in any and every battle. I promise to let you walk on the inside of the sidewalk, to open every door (yes, that includes the car door), and to be the perfect gentleman.

If we happen to become upset with each other in public, let us not make a scene. Let us please just wait until we get home or in the car to discuss the problem. I promise to come to you first if I have a problem, or if something is ever bothering me. Let us not go to bed angry or ever hold a grudge. Let us always speak no matter what. I know that we will get mad at each other, but I promise to be the husband that I’m supposed to be regardless. I promise to never put my hands on you in a harmful way, and if I do, you have my permission to beat the crap out of me. I love you, respect you, and cherish you way too much though, so you can be sure that will never happen.

I look forward to just being able to laugh and joke. Walking down the street, hand in hand. Taking a stroll through park, going sight seeing, joy riding, and just having a good time. I look forward to us sitting on the couch together watching a movie. I’m a big movie person so you really don’t have much of a choice. That’s okay though, because I’m sure there will be something that I will be forced to sit through with you.

I’m not really a big football fan, so you won’t have to worry about me being all in the TV on Sundays and not paying any attention to you. I am a BIG basketball fan though, so I will be glued to the TV when it comes on. I promise not to sit and watch every game because that’s way too much. But as long as you don’t bother me when I’m watching basketball, I promise to never bother you when you watch your shows on TV.

Let us talk as friends and love as lovers. Let us have bible study together, pray together every night, go to church together, and most importantly, keep God in our marriage. Let us go to God before making any decisions. Let us never say we can’t do anything because of our finances. We can be creative and do things that don’t require us to spend money.

I don’t know how to cook, but I do know how to follow directions. For one of our date nights, I want us to stay in the kitchen so you can teach me how to cook. I want to learn so that I can cook for you “just because”. Also, on those days when you come home from a long or stressful day of work, you won’t have to worry about cooking for me because dinner will already be on the table.

I love to sing, but can’t sing to save my life. So to spare you the pain, I’ll just write you poems. On the rare occasion that I do slip and you catch me singing, it’s either 1) to be annoying, or 2) because there’s a song playing that perfectly describes you, or us.

We can go out on Valentine’s Day, but please don’t be mad if I don’t go all out on that day. Why? Because every other day of the year I’ll be going all out for you. I’m going to spoil you with my love because you would have earned it. I believe in spoiling my loved ones, so how much more would I do for my wife?

Thanksgiving and Christmas are the biggest holidays of the year. Christmas is yours to have, but Thanksgiving is something that is near and dear to my heart, and it’s a time that’s always spent with my family. So let us spend time with my family on Thanksgiving, until we have our own family and we can start our own tradition.

From the moment I say “I do”, to the moment one of us goes on to glory, you can best believe that I’ll ALWAYS be there. Divorce is NOT an option. Whatever the obstacle, no matter how great or how small, we will make it through. Just as I’m trusting in God for you now, I’m trusting that He’ll keep us and guide us through the rough patches in life. So just get used to seeing my face everyday.

Our love will never stay the same because it has to evolve and it has to continue to grow. Just know that through the good times, bad times, happy and sad, young and old, I’ll always love you, always be there for you, and always protect you no matter what. If I have to beat somebody with my cane when we’re old and gray, then that’s just what I’ll have to do.

There’s a saying that, “A woman will stand behind her husband because she trusts him to lead the way, and the husband will lead the way, because he knows she’ll always have his back.” Let us have that type of life.

I’m in it for the long haul. No man, no woman, and no thing will tear us apart. May God punish the person that tries to draw a wedge in between us. May what happen in our marriage, stay in our marriage, unless we seriously need some outside guidance or council.

I love you babe, and I can’t wait to spend my life with you. You’re being thought about, and I’m planning a life that will incorporate you. Pending God’s approval…..I hope to see you soon.

Love,

Mr. Highsmith

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Vision & Motivation

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:00:26 -0400

The last couple months of my life have been kind of rough and kind of crazy. There have been quite a few things that have happened that have tested my character, my strength, my patience, and even my faith. The one thing that kept me sane though, is God. It got to a point where literally all I could do was trust and serve Him. Without God, I really don’t know where I would be right now. But, He’s kept me and protected me, through the good and the bad, and my faithfulness to him is starting to pay off.

Just a couple of months ago I made the decision that I was going to go back to school. I’ve always loved to write, but it was nothing more than a hobby. Who said though, that you couldn’t make a career out of hobby? I love to do it, and since I made the decision to go back, God has lit a fire that cannot be put out. I’ve enrolled in school, found a class, took my placement test, and enrolled in my class. I’ve completed the first few steps that were needed in order for me start the next phase of my life. I must say, I’m very excited about it too.

This fire lit under me has me motivated to do things I never thought I’d do. It has me visioning things I never thought I could envision. God is preparing me and taking me to a place that I’ve never been before. In order for Him to do that, He first had to prune and refine me. Remove everything from me that is not of Him. I can tell you that it wasn’t always easy, but the love I have for God now, and the passion I have for Him, is like no other feeling I’ve ever had.

God is positioning me to do great things in life. He’s using me in ways that others might see as impossible, but with God, nothing is impossible. I could ask “Why me? Why not somebody else?” But I think I’ll just sit back and let the master do His work.

In the mean time, I’ll continue to do what needs to be done for Him to get the glory. I’m going to take this new love and spread it throughout the world. I’m going to take this passion and apply it to everything I do. I love God too much not to.

The visions are becoming clearer and the motivation is certainly all around me, so it’s time to start making my dreams a reality.

livefortodayeveryday: By: Michael Borkowski

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:13:22 -0400

livefortodayeveryday:

By: Michael Borkowski

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holymisfit: Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down...

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Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. (Taken with Instagram)

Coming Into Focus

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:53:37 -0400

When you’re growing up and into your adult life, a lot of times you don’t know what you want to do for or with the rest of your life. You go to school for one thing and realize it’s not what you want to do, so you switch your major or just leave completely. The job that you have is not something you like, so you apply somewhere else. You’re not happy with your relationship so you go to somebody else. It’s like, we’re not sure what we want, so we just keep on trying until we get it right.

I’ve been feeling like that lately. I’m happy with my job and happy that I have a job, but no doubt about it it’s definitely not something I want to do for the rest of my life. I’ve been feeling like that for a little while, but it’s been all talk and no action.

Now? Right now, I feel like I have a new focus and a new determination. I’m in the zone and I’ve marked my target. I know what it is that I want to do and I’m going to go for it. I’m going to go back to school and get it done. Anybody that really knows me knows how much I hated school and even the thought of going back. I tried going back once but it didn’t really pan out. So many people tried to force me back or nag me back, but I refused. Now though, now that my heart and mind are set on it, there’s no question whether I’m going back or what I’m going for. I’m going to change my life and take my future into my hands.

Ultimately, God is in control, but if I don’t take the proper steps, then everything else is null and void. God can put me in school, but if I don’t do the work, He isn’t going to pass me. But, I will do what I have to do. I will succeed and I will be pleasing to Him. I live for Him, and because I do, I have to continue to better myself. Going back to school is going to make me a better man… a stronger man… a wiser man. I look forward to the knowledge that will be learned and look forward to the challenges that will come along with it.

I’ve figured out what I want to do. I hope you can figure out the same for yourself. Just keep in mind, you have to do what makes you happy and what’s pleasing to God. You can’t do what makes other people happy and is pleasing to them.

John 14:2-3

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:45:20 -0400

2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. #Bible http://j.mp/tBXh5h

God is...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:16:17 -0400

What’s up world???

I just wanted to take the time out to tell yall just how good God is. He’s an amazing, and an awesome super wonderful being with extraordinary powers. Who else do you know who can part waters, turn water into wine, raise the dead, heal the sick, bless you abundantly, make ways out of no ways, grant you numerous grace and mercies, save you from your own life, provide you with better things than you deserve, comfort you when you’re grieving or down, keep you grounded and humble, keep you at peace when your life’s a war zone, and could make you go on and on as I just did???

God is simply that good and that amazing. I’m glad I know Him for myself because I really don’t know where I would be without Him. The work He’s done and the things he’s doing in my life are nothing short of a miracle. I literally once was lost but now am found. I was on my way to hell and didn’t care. That was okay with me. But God had something better for me in life. Something that I could never fully repay him for. God gave me LIFE.

People think that you have to have money to be happy, or money to really live. I say NO and that’s a lie. First of all, money is the root of all evil. Secondly, I don’t have all the money in the world, but I DO have all the peace, all the joy, and all the love in the world. Only through God is that even possible. A song writer once said, “My worst day as a believer is better than my best day before I met Christ”. That’s exactly how I feel. I don’t think I was really living before. Oh but I can assure you that I’m definitely living now.

God is wonderful, and I hope that if you haven’t, you get to experience Him the way that I have. I’m living my life now, but I still have a whole lot more living to do.

Peace and blessings to you all.

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Weddings

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:17:31 -0400

Weddings (done right), are a sacred and a beautiful thing. To see two people come together for the first to be united as one is truly only something God could orchestrate. Yes, people that aren’t believers get married and yes, people who don’t abide by His word get married too. Some of them even have some outstanding and fantastic weddings. I’m strictly talking about the union of two godly people though.

I’ve had the pleasure of going to several weddings, and you could clearly tell which ones God was in, and which ones he wasn’t. The level of emotion and loved that is displayed between two people on those days is incredible.

From the way a man gazes at his wife-to-be as she comes down the aisles, to the way he looks at her as the wedding is taking place. Even the way he reads his vows. There’s nothing more special than the vows, especially when they are coming from the heart.

I tell people all the time that I’m going to cry my eyes out at my wedding. Not literally of course, but I will be crying. I’m not an overly emotional man, but the level of joy that I’ll be experiencing on that day will welcome the tears of joy.

I look forward to the day when I take my wife’s hand, place that ring on her finger, when we exchange our vows, and walk down the aisle hand in hand. Oh and of course, the reception. Maaaan, my reception is going to be one of the BIGGEST celebrations anybody has ever seen. I’m going to dance ALL night long. I’m going to enjoy myself and have all the fun in the world.

I know that as long as I do things right in God’s eyes, it will be a truly blessed marriage and I will be a truly blessed man. For that reason, I will praise God through dancing the night away. Who said Christians couldn’t have fun? If you’re invited to my wedding, I’ll supply you all the proof you need.

Tumblr taking a tumble

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:28:06 -0400

I used to look forward to coming on Tumblr and blogging whatever was on my mind, as well as seeing what other people had blogged as well. People where posting pictures, but not a lot. NOW??? I don’t even like coming on here anymore. To me it’s just excessive with all the pictures that are being posted. I guess I’m a bit of a hypocrite because I do reblog a lot of pictures too, but the main reason I come on here is to blog. I find myself easily distracted from all the pictures and I start looking at them myself. I like to read quality writing from others and see what’s on their mind. I just don’t get that same experience anymore. Tumblr now seems to be somewhat of a Pinterest Lite. I’m not saying I’m going to delete my Tumblr, but I won’t be on here like I used too. I guess I’ll just have to find a site where I can really blog and read other people’s thoughts without the mass swarm of pictures that can be distracting. Ahh well. I guess everybody uses it for their own pleasure, and I’ll have to keep using it for mine.

Philippians 2:13 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good...

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Philippians 2:13
13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

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