Second Chance

How big is your world when you are the center of it?
How small is your world when it comes crashing down?
Out of all the places to be, you're in that one building that never closes.
The one place where a parking lot is always occupied.
You enter the halls of white coats, and within them are your perceived notions of answers.
Answers for what exactly?
Cures for what exactly?
The sick, the diseased, the broken.
How naive are we to think someone who is broken lays only in a hospital.
Their in our homes. Their in our schools.
Their the person who walk beside you down the road.
Their in the grocery store, their in the restaurant drive through.
Look around you, you don't need to go to a hospital to find the broken.

But you ask yourself, how are you able heal?
You haven't been trained, you didn't go to school for it.
You hands aren't sanitized with white gloves.
And you have no degree stating your eligibility.

You don't have all the answers, and neither do I.
But I will offer you this one.
You are called to heal from the day Jesus healed you.
You are trained during your devotional time with Jesus.
In your quiet place, you secret time, just you and God.
Your hands are pure by the Holy Spirit who empowers you.
And your eligibility is your birth certificate when you were born into Christ.
You are a child of God, this is your eligibility.


Bringing you back to that small hospital room,
All you want to hear is the sound of that machine beep.
To know the one you love will live.
Then, those beeping lines spike on that machine that declares life and death.
Your heart races as you feel helpless.
You have no control over that heartbeat.
You have no control over that breath you love one is breathing in.

The monitor beeps a flat line across that screen.

One last chance, those white coats warm up that defibrillator and shouts "Clear."
You wait.
Wait to see if your loved one accepts that spark of life.
The spark of life that brings them back from that place that is eternal separation from God.

Taking a different look at this second chance of life..
Think of what a defibrillator appears to be in outline format.
Pressed together, side by side.
The image itself represents an opened book.
This opened book is the Word of God.
As soon as that book is opened, life is breathed out.
All you have to do is choose to breathe it in.
Open your book, and listen.
Listen to God speak to you.
For He can bring back anyone who is on the brink of death.

You breathe out as you listen to that heartbeat once more,
Knowing the one you love choose that second chance.
They chose to breathe in, Life.