Birthday Countdown: Project: Beyond the Reflection

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

FOR MY MUM AND DADDY!

Birthday Countdown: Beyond the Reflection [3]

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

Beyond the Reflection Chronicles

It is common knowledge in the world that we are our worst enemies. We often stay locked up in the chains of low self esteem... We look into the mirrors that we are caged inside and often reflect back to ourselves how worthless, ugly, and unwanted we are. But what if I were to tell you... There is something beyond the reflection? What if when we stared into the mirror we were really looking blindly into another world. As we press into the mirror and free ourselves, we become a mirror to reflect the love of One that all turn away from and when we return, we see things differently...

Book One: Beyond the Reflection

Melody has always struggled with depression and anxiety. She longed to be free from the chains of her past and fears of the future. She isolated herself and insomnia overran many of her nights with shame... When, one night alone, she saw a strange light that drew her close to the mirror, as she touch the glass and fell in, she was thrust into a world of fantasy of Corinim and to return home, she has a journey to take and task to do... As she goes on this journey and gains new friends, she learns slowly that her past mistakes just might be the means for her to see what true grace and love is.

Book Two: 99% Soul

Jacob is a liar and cheater. He likes pranks and tampering with dark things. But, when the darkness drew him deeper than he planned and then spit him right back out. He found himself very much alone and afraid except the demons he befriended. As time past,  he began cutting with broken pieces of mirror. As blood spilled, a peculiar light shone as he fell into the land of Corinim. To return, he must go on a journey and finish a task.  As he goes on this journey with his new friend, Melody, he finds freedom from his darkness and learns to no longer be afraid of the light.

Book Three: Bloodstained Hands

Melody and Jacob carry on their journey and continue the task they have been called to carry out together. When they are stopped by a young man with great influence in hypnotism. Jacob is drawn away from Melody, and though he was not corrupted, Melody was. And when Jacob sought Melody out, tracking her with the bloodstained pendants she had left behind, and the evidence that was left by the hypnotist, he found the Anthem Rise Community who aided him in the search by order of King Auorin, to bring her back and reveal mercy to her.

Book Four: Torn Walls

After bringing Melody back, with his new friend, Jennifer, Jacob returns with them to Anthem Rise. Gaining a new team under Captain Andrew Williams of Anthem Rise, they must find the walls of Baetari to seek clues on finding the key that Jacob and Melody had been sent to seek from the very beginning. Upon finding the walls, they found it was packed with merchants, soldiers, and mesmerized citizens carrying on their jobs forcibly. Hearing of evil intentions from spirits against Anthem Rise, they were found by their enemies. When they were caught there and almost taken, they fled... but one was left behind... Jennifer. Against the will of Jacob, Melody snuck back in to find Jennifer, as unbeknownst to Melody, plans were made to tear the walls down and free them all.

Book Five: Break Free

When Melody watched Jennifer fall away and willingly be a slave, even when Jacob and she helped free her, it broke her heart. Melody allowed what happened to end her quest of seeking the trinity key. Avoiding Jacob and anyway back home, she stayed and housed as a healer's apprentice. And as she refused to be found again to fight, King Auorin sent Captain Williams' team, including Jacob to bring her out of her self pity. She continued to refuse, until a revelation from King Auorin Himself struck her. She set out with a secondary mission to mentor a young lass named Chloe. As she mentored Chloe, she found through time that Chloe had a curse that Melody was to help her break free from.

Book Six: [Idea Coming Soon]

Book Seven: [Idea Coming Soon]

Birthday Countdown: Beyond the Reflection [2]

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

Beyond the Reflection Chronicles

It is common knowledge in the world that we are our worst enemies. We often stay locked up in the chains of low self esteem... We look into the mirrors that we are caged inside and often reflect back to ourselves how worthless, ugly, and unwanted we are. But what if I were to tell you... There is something beyond the reflection? What if when we stared into the mirror we were really looking blindly into another world. As we press into the mirror and free ourselves, we become a mirror to reflect the love of One that all turn away from and when we return, we see things differently...

Book One: Beyond the Reflection

Melody has always struggled with depression and anxiety. She longed to be free from the chains of her past and fears of the future. She isolated herself and insomnia overran many of her nights with shame... When, one night alone, she saw a strange light that drew her close to the mirror, as she touch the glass and fell in, she was thrust into a world of fantasy of Corinim and to return home, she has a journey to take and task to do... As she goes on this journey and gains new friends, she learns slowly that her past mistakes just might be the means for her to see what true grace and love is.

Book Two: 99% Soul

Jacob is a liar and cheater. He likes pranks and tampering with dark things. But, when the darkness drew him deeper than he planned and then spit him right back out. He found himself very much alone and afraid except the demons he befriended. As time past,  he began cutting with broken pieces of mirror. As blood spilled, a peculiar light shone as he fell into the land of Corinim. To return, he must go on a journey and finish a task.  As he goes on this journey with his new friend, Melody, he finds freedom from his darkness and learns to no longer be afraid of the light.

Book Three: Bloodstained Hands

Melody and Jacob carry on their journey and continue the task they have been called to carry out together. When they are stopped by a young man with great influence in hypnotism. Jacob is drawn away from Melody, and though he was not corrupted, Melody was. And when Jacob sought Melody out, tracking her with the bloodstained pendants she had left behind, and the evidence that was left by the hypnotist, he found the Anthem Rise Community who aided him in the search by order of King Auorin, to bring her back and reveal mercy to her.

Book Four: [Idea Coming Soon]

Book Five: [Idea Coming Soon]

Book Six: [Idea Coming Soon]

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Book Seven: [Idea Coming Soon]

Birthday Countdown: Beyond the Reflection Chronicles

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

FOR AVALON LEE AND SARAH

Beyond the Reflection Chronicles

It is common knowledge in the world that we are our worst enemies. We often stay locked up in the chains of low self esteem... We look into the mirrors that we are caged inside and often reflect back to ourselves how worthless, ugly, and unwanted we are. But what if I were to tell you... There is something beyond the reflection? What if when we stared into the mirror we were really looking blindly into another world. As we press into the mirror and free ourselves, we become a mirror to reflect the love of One that all turn away from and when we return, we see things differently...

Book One: Beyond the Reflection

Melody has always struggled with depression and anxiety. She longed to be free from the chains of her past and fears of the future. She isolated herself and insomnia overran many of her nights with shame... When, one night alone, she saw a strange light that drew her close to the mirror, as she touch the glass and fell in, she was thrust into a world of fantasy of Corinim and to return home, she has a journey to take and task to do... As she goes on this journey and gains new friends, she learns slowly that her past mistakes just might be the means for her to see what true grace and love is.

Book Two: 99% Soul

Jacob is a liar and cheater. He likes pranks and tampering with dark things. But, when the darkness drew him deeper than he planned and then spit him right back out. He found himself very much alone and afraid except the demons he befriended. As time past,  he began cutting with broken pieces of mirror. As blood spilled, a peculiar light shone as he fell into the land of Corinim. To return, he must go on a journey and finish a task.  As he goes on this journey with his new friend, Melody, he finds freedom from his darkness and learns to no longer be afraid of the light.

Book Three: [Idea Coming Soon]

Book Four: [Idea Coming Soon]

Book Five: [Idea Coming Soon]

Birthday Countdown: Beyond the Reflection

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

FOR DADDY

This piece, "Beyond the Reflection" Copyright © 2015 Mari Fahel McKimzey was created with the intention of expressing that we are our worst critic, that there is something of meaning beyond ourselves... I wanted to express the poem I wrote in March that is titled the same thing... But it was to teach that life isn't about us, and there is something beyond ourselves and our reflection.

Beyond the Reflection

Copyright © 2015 Mari Fahel McKimzey

Within a person is always a spirit in a cage

A cage crafted of an unbreakable mirror

In the reflection is a merciless critic who

Tears and breaks you down with silence

Each time you accept the lies out of its mouth

A newly fashioned link to your shackles appears

It’s all you know; it’s all you have; it never changes

But just beyond the reflection, you see a light

As far as you can remember you never could break free

But this time is so different, your feet walk through the shackles

As if you are walking with water beneath your feet

You press into the mirror, causing ripples in the glass;

You fall into a dark, dark valley, and past the valley you see the light

The dawning sun is rising beyond the mountains yonder

Through the valley of shadows, you have no fear

For a Hand seems to be on your heart, guiding your way

Through the valley of shadows, your courage rises

And through the valley of shadows, your faith is being refined

Through the valley of shadows and onto the the Land of Light

And the valley is where you find you’re closer to the One who created you

Beyond the reflection is the journey to Home through the valley of shadows

Birthday Countdown: Monster

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

FOR SARAH

Monster

Copyright © 2015 Mari Fahel McKimzey

I scar my skin to kill 

This monster inside me

I roar with blood tears

Sliding down my face

Save me from myself

I've become my demons!

Save me from this monster

That claws in my heart!

I die every night in bed

Then rise again from my grave

Only to die all over again

I've turned into a monster

A venomous viper within

Spider webs in my corners

Fear hiding me from you

But like a kitten hiding

From her owner in a bucket

I cannot hide from You

There is no other way

But to come to You and

Make my pleas known to You

Everyone thinks I am insane

Even I believe it is so

Please still my soul

Give unto Me a sound mind

Because, I've become my demons

Saviour, rescue me!

I am my worst enemy...

GRAPHIC FOR IT

INSPIRED BY....

Birthday Countdown: Let the Sparks Fly

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

FOR MANDIE

In this piece, "Let the Sparks Fly" Copyright © 2015 Mari Fahel McKimzey, I was trying to express what passion for Christ is, what freedom is, and how through the fire and storm, we are called to use our light for Christ to reveal Him to the world... I wanted to tell people through this that pain is part of living for Christ and as we let the sparks fly, there will be grief, sorrow, pain, and passion but through all there there will be joy... and through it all we should continue to love...and not be afraid.

Birthday Countdown: Whipper-Upper

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

FOR KENZIE

just a lil something I whipped up on an app... :3

Birthday Countdown: Time Spent In Tears

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

FOR THERESA

In this piece "Time Spent In Tears" Copyright © 2015 Mari Fahel McKimzey, I was trying to express the pain in my dreams, the weight of time and memories in my dreams. I was hoping to reveal the tears and scars that I have experienced through time (as numerous as the stars, and as heavy as the gravity of the moon... Some, I cannot distinguish because they are too far to notice or too small... and others weighing or blazing away at my heart... 

Birthday Countdown: Kaleidoscopic Blitzkrieg

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

FOR MY BROTHER-IN-CHRIST, ELI

Copyright © 2015 Mari Fahel McKimzey

Birthday Countdown: Fear is a Lie

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

FOR ADELLS

Copyright © 2015 Mari Fahel McKimzey

Birthday Countdown: Independence Day

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

Copyright © 2015 Mari Fahel McKimzey Several pictures of the fireworks I saw for Independence Day...

The conversation we had on our way back.... which inspired this poem:

Independence From Freedom

Copyright © 2015 Mari Fahel McKimzey

Somehow, someway it is evident

That we have turned freedom into slavery

We say it is us, and that we are independent

Oh America, if only that were true

Oh it is acknowledged nationwide

That God is dead and we are over Him

We shut His Word out and refuse to pray and confide

We, in the American church slip

It's too saddening to laugh about

That we are fading into compromise

It's such a charade that we carry on acting out

It's the curse of the Western world

The evidence speaks so loud and clear

We've chosen independence from freedom

Running away as Jonah did we refuse to hear

God's Voice that is following

Birthday Countdown: Be Our Vision

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

Copyright © 2015 Mari Fahel McKimzey This drawing was a piece drawn after a wedding picture of my parents. Today is their 16th anniversary, so I edited this a wee bit to fit with my newest poem written in their honour.... Love you mum and daddy! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Birthday Countdown: Blood Bound [Finished Poem]

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

FOR MR. BOB

Blood Bound

Copyright © 2015 Mari Fahel McKimzey

We are one in the Spirit, we are one in the Lord

And we pray that our unity will one day be restored

And they'll know we are Christians by our love

Down this aisle of history, made one by His sacrifice

We are the Blood Bound Saints who mission out

Down the aisle of history, we walk in peace

We are the Blood Bound pilgrims, aliens to this world

His Body, the Beautiful Bride of He who loved us first

Broken we were in repentance, mended we are in love

And as The Chosen we cry out to the world, to all who hear

"There is healing for the lame and relief for the handicapped

There is peace through the pain and a path of mercy that is mapped

There is hope in every seemingly hopeless situation and love enough for all

There is a great faith chain reaction for the ones who answer the Call-- you who answer the Call!"

Birthday Countdown: Cancer

Do y'all remember when I did my advent project? Well, it'll be similar here as well... From June 22 to July 22, I will be creating and writing stuff for others. It'll be like a Hobbit Birthday Party! July 3rd, I'll have a special surprise up for my mum and daddy's 16th anniversary and July 4th I plan to post some fireworks with music! Otherwise, I'll be making art and writing poetry/stories until the big finale on my bday! xD Keep an eye out for it, yo!

FOR SARAH!

Cancer

Copyright © 2015 Mari Fahel McKimzey

How can we find peace

When our hands are filthy? 

How can we be freed 

When we our own captors?

How can we cleanse our hands of our guilt?

No other way but Christ

No other freedom but Yeshua

No other peace but Shabbat Shalom!  

We were born with a condition

Spiritually we live with a cancer

Born into the shadows of fire

Spiritually we live in death

The truth is so hard to hear

The cold and hard truth is

That we can't avoid our sin

The only way we can be released

Is with all faith in humility

Praying with a willingness

To be set free from our fate

We are chained to our perishing form but

We can break free by supernatural means

Just cry out and rise up to meet His Call

Jesus the Healer of our souls has hope for us all

For these lies, lusts and chains to no longer bind us

Freedom at last for it is Finished!