Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Pressing Through


Pressing Through

Pressing through
Into You
What has been
Free of sin

Letting go
Ever so slow
Setting free
Hear my plea

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-030Z)


Monday, January 30, 2017

Wind Blows

        Wind Blows 

Wind blows and snow dances
Covering tracks of past
Pure white, clean

As though never disturbed

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-022A)

Sunday, January 29, 2017

Attuned

              Attuned

Clutter fills my mind
Minutia of scattered thoughts
Stillness eludes my soul
Observe my thoughts as they wander

I shepherd them back
From familiar paths they roam
Places that no longer nourish
Tastes of familiar no longer satisfy

Green pastures full of life
Where thoughts are nourished
Clear pool of water springs from soil
Safe with Shepherd of soul close

Choosing to dwell in His paddock
Among His flock, He knows my name
Attuned to His voice
Close by his side I dwell

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-022A)


Saturday, January 28, 2017

Red Sun

               Red Sun

Reddish pink sky awakens
Reflecting off soft clouds
Rippled as a calm sea
Arousing dormant hope

Brilliant red sun
About to pierces eastern horizon
Pinkish light emblazons tops of Wildcat Hills
Wakened beauty stirs innermost desires

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-026Z)

Friday, January 27, 2017

Doorways

            Doorways

Thresholds and doorways folding in
One upon another like an accordion
Passing through multiple thresholds with one step
Accelerating by taking one step

New encounters
Different relationship with time
Eternal time
Moving through

One day as a thousand years
A thousands years as one day
Physically moving to places
Spiritual dimensions and crossings

Unbound with time
Sin's false contract with time
Sin's false contract with season
Sin's false contract with reason

Unbelief binds to time
Faith crosses thresholds
Entering eternity's and Eden's reality
Transcending time living in His reality

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-008A)

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Sunrise

           Sunrise

Brilliance of sunrise
Magnified on glittering snow
Gratitude for another day
Another opportunity to live with You

Expressions of beauty
Swaying of pines
Snow crusted movement
Catches my eye

Sharing the moment
With my love
Brief moment of expression
Hoping for better days

Pressing close to You
What do You want to say
How can I express my love
In ways meaningful to You

Hope requires action
Love revived in connection

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-007B)

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Snow Fences

Highway 85 Between Newcastle, WY. and Mule Creek Junction

                            Snow Fences

Between Mule Creek Junction and Newcastle
Old snow blown against snow fences
Waves of snow tempest of frozen prairie
Beauty and raw in brilliant light

Purity covers the high plains
Respect for the season and power of creation
Can gaze into beauty
Today calm of storm past

Fury relented days ago
Left with a white ocean
Adrift in sparseness
Covered in holy white

Dressed in purity
Displaying splendor
Awe and wonder
Draws me to Father

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-016A)

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Mental Fight

        Mental Fight

Surrender the mental fight
Allow thoughts to wander
Explore where they lead
Observe what they expose

Father's light shines
In dark places of mind
His love brings healing to what I find
Dark places power no longer binds

Fear loses grip when let go
Trust Father, He isn't blind
Right here with me
Together we explore

Walks through barriers
Where lifetime of stuck
Generational hooks gripped mind
Light breaks power of staying blind

Accelerate, time is redeemed
All is not lost washed clean
New beginnings today
New love display


About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-015A)

Monday, January 23, 2017

Launching A Son - 21

21.     You have my blessing.
·       You are a good son.
·       In my eyes and heart you will always be mine, I claim you as my son.
·       I love you.
·       Take what’s been given by your mom and I, build on it, explore, do daring exploits for God and man.
·       Spark of Godly courage will always be there no matter how dark the night, I believe in you.
Love,

Dad

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.


Sunday, January 22, 2017

Launching A Son - 20

20.     Areas I have failed as a father.
·       There is a place with God where He can redeem and make things right; not dependent on me as a father.
·       You will wrestle in the places I have failed, press through!
·       I will stay open and soft when places are stirred in you and you want to talk about hurts that surface over your lifetime, as long as there is breath.

·       Places I failed in example as a husband with your mom, you will have to wrestle through these places.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Launching A Son - 19

19.     Stay true to God.
·       Wrestle with Him.
·       Go deep with Him.
·       Build on generations before that have served Him.

·       Tap into that heritage, there is an inheritance in God waiting for you to tap.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.

Friday, January 20, 2017

Launching A Son -18

18.     Wrestle with what is means to be a man.
·       I bless your wrestling with sorting out what it means to be a man. Wrestling yourself, wrestling with God.
·       Ultimately no one else can do this for you.
·       Explore truth of how male and female relate.

·       Why do I dismiss “this” from a woman? Usually, almost always, points to a place dismissing God.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Launching A Son - 17

17.     The Long View.
·       Journey takes time, can’t be rushed.
·       No “life hacks” to character.
·       Like eating an elephant, one bite at a time.
·       In giving to others or meeting a need, opportunities present themselves that can never plan or imagine.
·       Sowing and reaping
·       Some crops take long…. long… time before bear fruit.
·       Like sowing and reaping, systems impact life –be aware of systems participate in.
·       Just a steward when die all "things" accumulated will go to another. It is love and relationships that will be legacy that are eternal, have eternal value.
·       Keep a short list with God and others.
·       Wrestle with circumstances, situations, interpretations, and don't carry things to tomorrow that can be reconciled today.
·       "Tomorrow is only in a fool's calendar." (Og Mandino)
·       Short cuts don't usually work and typically end up going around the mountain to learn the lesson trying to avoid.

·       Journey will have "long nights of the soul," don’t be surprised and you are never alone regardless of how it appears!

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Launching A Son - 16

16.     Remember to keep attitude grateful and thankful.

·       There is always something you can be grateful for, no matter what.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.


Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Launching A Son - 15

15.     Relationship skills
·       Critical, will determine success or failure.
·       Learn body language and how to read it.
·       Embrace the different way feminine relate.
·       Let go of need to dominate and control, there is a better way.
·       How do I express appropriately in this relationship?
·       Can’t move further in relationship than where internally at (own maturity).
·       Dark side of being human when refuse to give in an area of relationship where aware intentionally not and hurts the other.

·       Marriage brings a maturity that can only be experienced in intimate relationship. It is good and the hardest relationship because of what gets exposed.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.

Monday, January 16, 2017

Launching A Son - 14

14.     Education is important, but …
·       A college degree isn’t a sign that learned anything. Wisdom is the application of knowledge.
·       It is more critical to keep learning entire life. It doesn’t finish with a degree.

·       What skills do I need and where can I learn them; who can I learn them from…

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.

Sunday, January 15, 2017

Launching A Son - 13

13.     Set internal boundaries in relationships.
·       Not everyone is as they appear.
·       Remember the women you meet and enter relationship with are daughters of God, a daughter to a mom and dad, and a sister.
·       Be noble and honorable in relationship with women.

·       Be open to correction and discipline from the feminine side of God, they expose areas we as men are blind to and it is out of love and desire for intimacy that they bring up what they discern.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.

Saturday, January 14, 2017

Launching A Son - 12

12.     Where your focus is, is where you will go.
·       What has my eye?
·       What has my heart?
·       What had my attention?

·       These simple questions are powerful. It is like riding a horse, rider is always told to look where you want to go, the horse tracks subtle movements and goes that way. Ask God where your focus is to be – check in with Him. Correct course as needed.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.

Friday, January 13, 2017

Launching A Son - 11

11.     Daily stillness when start your day and before drift off to sleep.
·       Just a few minutes to align, ground, and let God wash over you.

·       Take the time to jot down what God reveals to dwell on later.


About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Launching A Son - 10

10.     What will I do when I feel lonely or in pain?
·       Reveals where heart is at. Will I seek to numb the pain without God?
·       Reveals truth about who my God/god is. May not like what it exposes.

·       A place of temptation and where addiction form. Don’t have to go that route, choose not to isolate self and have courage to say something.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Launching A Son -9

9.     When things get crazy ask God for His interpretation.
·       Live in the place of asking God for interpretation. The world and it’s systems have one interpretation and God has another. Stay with God’s.
·       Nurture friendship with God, that requires moving close to Him and requires something of me.
·       What is suffering trying to show me? And what does God want to show me? How can I move closer to Him? Am I resistant and dismissive of Him and others?

·       Stay open to His correction and discipline; don’t be blind.


About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Launching A Son - 8

8.     Until we meet again.
·       There are no guarantees this side of eternity. "Tomorrow is only in a fool's calendar." (Og Mandino)
·       Don't leave love unexpressed.
·       Life circumstances can change in the blink of an eye.

·       Must hold people and things loosely for there comes a day when causes parting for a season.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.

Monday, January 9, 2017

Launching A Son - 7

7.      Always need accountability in your life. We are created for community and relationship.
·       Get involved with other believers. Find them and get connected.
·       Church
·       Campus Ventures
·       Campus Crusade for Christ
·       Yet to be discovered
·       Just because say a "Christian" doesn’t necessarily mean they are serving God or are intimate with Him.

·       Pray for discernment and guidance with whom to be vulnerable. Not everyone is worthy to hear all of internal life, there are a few who you allow to enter into that place.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.



Sunday, January 8, 2017

Launching A Son - 6

6.     Choose friends wisely
·       You are the sum of the five people closest to you. Be aware of friends character. Jim Rohn, “we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with.”
·       If in a place lacking “friends” that need, podcasts, books, other ways to get input and accountability.

·       Really important in social media arena if politics or public service is in your future. Keep your eye on the long view, of who you are and purpose you are created for.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.  

Saturday, January 7, 2017

Launching A Son - 5

5.     Explore
·       A season where exploration and adventure is easy.


·       A season where recovery from failure is easy.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.  

Friday, January 6, 2017

Launching A Son - 4

4. Be open to experiencing love and friendship.

·       God may bring the woman you are to marry soon. Go slow, treat her honorably, and discover a joy that day happens.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.  




Thursday, January 5, 2017

Launching A Son - 3

3. You will always be my son and home will always be a safe place where you are welcome.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.  

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Launching A Son - 2

2.  You will be tested in life, your journey
·       Tested and must struggle, wrestle, stumble, and fall. Here is the key - it's not about falling, but it's about how you respond that builds character and exposes the condition of heart and soul. Place of tremendous learning and growth, if stay open and vulnerable.
·       Stay soft when fall, not bracy or proud. Be open to correction and discipline however God does that.
·       A never ending process in this life, I'm still learning this.
·       The sooner use falling as an opportunity to learn instead of falling deep into shame, fear, depression the quicker healing comes. God uses our failures and sin to bring us into a place of deep intimacy and love. In the midst of this He is good and loving bringing healthy correction so can know Him more.
·       REJECT SHAME AND ABANDONMENT. Those are both generational strongholds - you will have to confront them. It is time to break free of them both pressing into a new way of living.
·       You have what it takes son!!!
·       Be ruthless in internal honesty.
·       Be wise in who are totally transparent and vulnerable with. You must be honest and truthful to disarm shame. No hiding failures - just wastes energy if hide. Embrace and explore truth and honesty; learn, go deep in intimacy -in that failure place great depth of God's love for you can be discovered.
·       You will always be my son - no matter what!


About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.  

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Launching A Son - 1

I'm going to depart from poetry for the next 21 days. I am taking 21 thoughts from a letter I wrote our son about four months before he left for college, thoughts from a father to a son, and posting them. Some encouraging words and some ideas to consider if you find yourself in the season of life of launchig children from the home into their destiny.

The first thought:

1.     Never forget whose you are.
·       Who you represent and who you reflect.
·       Remember God and explore new intimacy with Him. You are never alone.
·       Remember you come from a family that loves you. I, as your father, love you. There is a heritage of Godly and loving men that you can tap into, an inheritance you don't have to earn - just tap into it.
·       You are claimed as my son!
·       We launch you in strength, love, grace, and confidence.


I will post a link to where all 21 thoughts can be downloaded at the end of day 21.

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.