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The Knight of Faith, the Knight of Hope, and the Knight of Love

I traveled through time back to the future last night. Back to my present. The gift I have today as I look at the objects above my sister’s lakehouse fireplace, is seeing the life she has led. There are photographs of her with our nephew and nieces. There are photographs of her with her kids. There are photographs of her with her friends visiting from China. And there are photographs of her with her partner. These photographs represents the best most moments of her life. There is a candles and incense. There are even her children’s piggy banks. There is even a CD mixtape at the top right shelf that I made for her when I was going to school in Montreal. My part in her great life. These memories of the people that are a part of our lives and love us are the candles of hope that give us faith for the life ahead. They are the foundation of our lives and the rock which the shelter of our soul resides. It is for love that we exist. So in order to live, we must love.

So forth, if the love we hold in our hearts are the markers for our past and present, and if this love is the root of our faith, what marks a knight of faith? Then if faith succeed hope, and hope succeed love, then it is love that is the root of all. For God so love his Son completely that he creates the world, and God so love the world that he gave his only Son. Then the love I give must be also the love I receive. ‘cause God love his Son completely and his Son love him completely, that is the perfect love. If the knight of faith is markered by his absolute faith in God, for Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, his only son, whom he loves; then what precedes that is his absolutely hope in God, that God will give back which he gives. But that is the contradiction. How can Isaac be returned to him if he is to be sacrificed. His absolutely hope is that which he placed in God, for all impossibilities are made possible. And what precedes all that is his absolute love in God. By being the knight of faith, Abraham is also the knight of hope, and the knight of love. 

However, the life that Abraham lives is not that of ritz and glitter. In fact, he is tested by God again and again. God asks him to abandon his country and leave for another that God will promise to give to him and his descendants. No sane person would leave the comfort and the comfortable living of their lives to walk thousands of miles to the unknown. Would you do it? That makes him the exception. Few men are called, and fewer answers. 

If by definition the knight of faith is to have the absolute hope in his faith for God, even to the denial of the reality of the world, if all else fails to bring that faith into fruition, then his faith in God will do so. By virtue of the impossible, that God fulfills. That is the faith being rewarded from hope that stems from it. That is the knight of faith, to have the absolute hope in his faith in God.

Then what is the knight of hope. By this consequential reasoning, then the knight of hope must be the one that has absolute love in his hope in God. Few would argue and just as few would understand that to have hope in God you must love that hope you have been given. If you understand it you surely would not agree with it. “To have hope in God I must now love that hope. And to have absolute hope in God I must now have absolute love in that hope?” What kind of wishy washy guru wisdom are you selling me mister?”, you would say. But is it not true, even in the most difficult times and the trials and tests we have through life, God will still give us a gift, and that is in the present you see before you. In the hardest of times we are still given hope if we have faith. And that hope will become fruits in the future, and those fruits are the realisation of all of our hope for our lives. That is why it is absolutely true.

Then what is the knight of love then? Is it still consequential that in order to be the knight of love I must also precedes myself as being the knight of something else. Love is foundation of our existence. The LORD create you in his own image out of that love. And what precedes our flesh and bones before we are born is our soul being created in the womb. Then it is our very soul that precede the knight of love. It is in us to love. It is our very core. We are meant to love. But very few are called, and very few answers ‘cause we are obsessed with all our other preoccupations of life. And we never take the time to understand that in order for us to live we must love. We are born to love so let us do our jobs and love. While we are at it, we might as well be good at it.

Going back to my sister’s shelves above the fireplace, the things that are there represents the best part of her life. The picture frames, the CDs, the paintings, the decorations and the rest of our lives hung on shelves and walls represent our lives. If we keep reminding ourselves that the people in our lives have given us a wealth of love that will be the candles of hope for the faith we ought to have for our future, then we will do just fine. We will have a great life, not just a good one.

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Skin and bones

By Coldplay, Atticus & Halsey

I'm here at the sunrise

The glare of the Sun

Blinds my sight

The waves come in

And I can't help but feel

The sea as vast as it is

Is small to the moments

Of those nights

When your fingers

crawled through my spine

And you seen my heart naked

Yeah the yellow star shines

And I know this skin and bones

Is beautiful in your eyes

This love is mine

Like the times

When we danced in the light

I'm here at the sunset

And the rays of the Sun

Pierce my heart

As the clouds float away

I know even if the rain falls

And grey skies come my midst

And tears fall to the ground

It is for your absence

And the remembrance

Of your eyes so blue

Just like this blue sea

Where you and me used to be

Yeah the yellow star shines

And I know this skin and bones

Is beautiful in your eyes

This love is mine

Like the times

When we danced in the light

Yeah when we danced in the light

Written by Chris Martin & Atticus

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The yellow in your eyes

By Atticus, Chris Martin & Sasha Sloan

Waiting for a rainbow in the sky

Waiting for the yellow in your eyes

I know I say this

But I'm waiting for the sunrise

As I shiver

LORD, can I make a prayer at nine

Yeah I see that youth in your sly

Yeah the tears seem so shy

Yeah and I wonder why

The yellow in your skin and bones is gone

And your hair is hoaring white

I was hoping for at least a good bye

Today is blue sky

But I'm missing the yellow in your eyes

Is the heart of summer really gone

Staring at the blue sky

And I'm wondering why

I thought I was your girl

I was hoping for more than a hi

I was hoping for more than a smile

I was hoping for more than heaven high

Yeah I see that youth in your sly

Yeah the tears seem so shy

Yeah and I wonder why

The yellow in your skin and bones is gone

And your hair is hoaring white

I was hoping for at least a good bye

Today is blue sky

But I'm missing the yellow in your eyes

Yeah I'm missing the yellow in your eyes

Written Atticus, Mako, Chris Martin & Sasha Sloan

#The yellow in your eyes

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With wanderlust I sail away

There was a lighthouse by the Red Sea

As we walked to freedom

It lit the way

I prayed that GOD takes this life

And bring me across the vast sea

GOD destroy evil we cry

We Prayed between the stepping stones

And it was drowned with the chariots

This is your charity

And you built a church on top of a cliff near that sea

And you brought it to the fullest of the charity in you

And near the cliff overlooking the darkness

A lighthouse to lit the wayfaring ships

As I wander as a wanderer on this good Earth

With wanderlust I remember the warm hands that gave me warmth

The strong shoulder that soaked the tears 

And the fostering arms that held me in your cradle

The love you gave me I have never forgotten ‘til this very day

So as the lighthouse shine on the parting of the sea

I remember GOD’S promise

The love that bore me in my mother’s womb and my father’s arms

With wanderlust I sail for the Red Sea

To the splitting of the sea

And this is the promise of this good and rich Earth

To have all of your love in good and rich heart

So LORD with wanderlust I sail away

To the parting of sea

And there I will find all that I have lost

‘cause the resurrection lives in your soul

#with wanderlust I sail away

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One thousand paper cranes

By Atticus, Coldplay & Chris Tomlin for the new Morning Star, Sadako Sasaki

I remember the warm spring

When the cherry blossom bloomed so wild

And the cool walks with my mother 

Under the morning light

The Sun would rise 

Above Mount Fuji way up high

And my father would pick me up

Onto his shoulder when I tire

And we would lay under

Heaven’s thunder in the night

And my brother would tell me

If I can count up to a thousand stars

My wish would come true that night

Yeah my wish would come true that night

We would stay up in GOD’S mercy

‘til The Morning Star’s light

But that night if you were 

Up in the evening sky then I shall go

And in the twilight if you climbed

To the mountaintop then I shall go

And in the sunrise if you were

Up in the clouds then even then I shall go

When the bombs fell in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

In that summer of thorns and thistles

The dust rise to sky high

But my grandmother told me

If I prayed the smoke

Would rise to heaven high

Then I cried

Yeah I cried

As my white bones greyed

And my flesh withered

The thousand nights under heaven’s thunder

Brought tears to my eyes

And my brother tell me

If I fold a thousand paper cranes

GOD would answer my prayer that night

Yeah GOD would answer my prayer that night

We would stay up in GOD’S mercy

‘til The Morning Star’s light

But that night if you were

Up in the evening sky then I shall go

And in the twilight if you climbed

To the mountaintop then I shall go

And in the sunrise if you flew 

Up to the clouds then even then I shall go

Yeah I shall go

Written by Atticus, Mako, Chris Martin & Taylor

#one thousand paper cranes

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Lily of the valleys

By Atticus, Coldplay, & Elevation Worship for Nastya and her family. Proceed goes to her care.

Remember the car ride home

The sea was blue as the sky

I picked you up from the hospital

Like you were the lily of the valleys

And we sang our songs

And we were happy

Even through the tears

I see you move

You're moving mountains

And I believe

I'll see you do it again

You made a way

When there was no way

And I believe

I'll see you do it again

There were days where I lost hope

But all my faith is you

This love like a thorn pricked heart

But I believe our love will be the light

Even in the valleys

And the songs we sang

Were like the lily of the valleys

And we were happy

Even through the tears

I see you move

You're moving mountains

And I believe

I'll see you do it again

You made a way

When there was no way

And I believe

I'll see you do it again

I see you move

You're moving mountains

And I believe

I'll see you do it again

You made a way

When there was no way

And I believe

I'll see you do it again

Yeah I'll see you do it again

Written by Atticus, Chris Martin, Christopher Brown, Mack Brock, Steven Furtick & Matthew James Redman

#lily of the valleys

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I raise my Ebenezer up high

By Atticus, Coldplay & Jenn Johnson

I know it hasn’t been four hundred years yet

And that last straw hasn’t broke my back just yet

But my soul has become the desolate

So I ask please LORD

Am I just a vagabond and derelict

Drifting through my own life

Not sure what it has in store

I come to Jerusalem wall

With wild roses in my hands

And thorns as my crown

I have pockets full of prayers

And lips to sing your name

In days of victory

Can you count me in

Your loving son

Begging on his knees

So I look to the clouds above me

And while it rains

And thunders roar before me

And the wind sweep in

I dare raise my Ebenezer up high

Oh higher than the clouds

As I come to the shore

There is a sea before me

And an army behind

So I fall to my knees

In the most earnest plea

Don’t let me drown tonight

Hold me ‘til the morning light

So I cry a hosanna to The North Star

LORD, come before me

And a lighthouse behind

LORD, bring Your outstretched right hand of deliverance

And bring into liberation

Your loyal and faithful servant, Israel

In days of victory 

Can you count me in

Your loving son

Begging on his knees

So I look to the clouds above me

And while it rains

And thunders roar before me

And the wind sweep in

I dare raise my Ebenezer up high

Oh higher than the clouds

LORD, you walk before me

A pillar of clouds by day

And a pillar of fire by night

Though it has been years

That my tears well up in the wilderness

I am so grateful Your footsteps before me

But as my tears drop

At the border of The Promised Land

I cry for my spirit

Is wrinkled and greyed

So let my Ebenezer be raised up high

And in my hoared hair

I will follow You up the mountaintop

And finally see the kingdom You built for me

Yeah I will raise my Ebenezer up high

Yeah I will raise my Ebenezer up high

Written by Atticus, Chris Martin, Gob & Madison

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Light

Where there is light, there is love

For you were born in the light

And I first held you also in the light

And you first cried for me in the very light

And I seen your tears dripping in the same light

Now your heart ache in the night

Your blue eyes were the blue sky

Your white hair was the hoar of my soul

And I cried for those blue eyes

Wishing they will return to the night sky and fill it with daylight

I count clouds passing by

And hope this day would come

‘cause when you cried my blue sky turn grey

‘til it is the grey of the night

I will hold you within the light

‘cause the love you gave me was the love I needed

I will kiss you in the light

‘cause the hand that held me was that that wipe my tears away

I will love you in the light

‘cause the ache within me will shed in your very light

You are my light

And I will hold you

I will spent my spirit in that light

‘cause your light has ran away the darkness

You are my light

And I will hold you

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In the footsteps of the Lord

You’ve been through the dessert, haven’t you? Then I shall go.

You went out of Egypt, haven’t you? Then I shall go.

You’ve crossed the sea bottom, haven’t you? Then I shall go.

You’ve gone through the valley, haven’t you? Then I shall go.

You’ve set up camp in the wilderness, haven’t you? Then I shall go.

You’ve climbed up the mountaintop, haven’t you? Then I shall go.

You’ve arrived at the promised land, haven’t you? Then I shall go.

Until I see your face.

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How an angel cry

By Minh, Coldplay & Sasha Sloan for the celebration of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics Games

Is it raining tonight

This liquor won’t dry your eyes

Are you crying tonight

Those grey clouds in your eyes

Can you come into the light

I want you in my sight

‘cause this hurt needs to be made right

Is this love forsaken

Or am I mistaken

Is this how

I said is this how an angel cry

Yeah the tears

Yeah the tears fall from so high

Yeah the tears fall from so high

You took my spirit

While I cradle your soul

One hand on the crucifix

And another on the bottle

And you drank the holy water down

Hoping to GOD

Yeah hoping to GOD

That it will burn the sin away

With the liver

And I cry

Yeah I cry

So this is how an angel cry

Yeah this is how an angel cry

The river is neck high

And I’m drowning in liquor tonight

So crossing this water

Brings all of my spirit to fright

Will the grey clouds from my eyes ever dry

‘cause my soul is soaked up to neck high

Yeah I think

Yeah I think I’ll drown in the sea

Sinking in

Sinking in all of my shame

Oh will the rain ever wash this sin away

Yeah I wonder if the rain ever wash this sin away

‘cause LORD knows my body is clean dry

And my soul is soaked

You took my spirit

While I cradle your soul

One hand on the crucifix

And another on the bottle

And you drank the holy water down

Hoping to GOD

Yeah hoping to GOD

That it will burn the sin away

With the liver

And I cry

Yeah I cry

So this is how an angel cry

Yeah this is how an angel cry

Written by Minh & Christson

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O come, o come, Immanuel

I hear you whisper

O come, o come, Immanuel

But as the drum rolls

Were you in the field 

Where yellow flower grows

And the river flows

And the blooming lavender knows

Of my aching bones

Where I wanted to throw

These skin and bones

Into the endless ocean

So this beauty I see in you

Will be the teal sky so green and blue

It is what you do

This kindred soul

Carved out your name

Onto this kindred tree

And as my tears flow

Into a flood of tears

I see a river flow in you

You know

You know I love you so

So how can I go

Without waking to see you

In the light you know

And though the stars shine

Like the twinkling of your eyes

You are the white rose

That grows in the Sun

And your heart is white

Like the white of your eyes

And the white of your skin

And all the white of your hair

And I know 

This ache you feel

I feel it too

This love is blood of lamb

You were the sunrise peak

And I’ll eat you like the bread of life

And you’re the apple of my eye

‘cause from the beginning

This bitter fruit is sweet

And I love you so

Like the wind from breath

I inhale you in

And call this breath you give life

And say this kiss you blow love

I remember when you were born

I cradled you in my arms

And call your name love

‘cause this love is life

And with you in the light

This life is love

I swam across

To your aching bones

And I know

This love atones

‘til all that is sacred

Is sacrosanct 

And this yellow star

Is the now my brightest star

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Lost and found

By Atticus & Carrie Underwood

I take this wretched heart into my arms

All my life I was a fool

Folly was the way

I fooled around

And now all my tears

Come raining down

As I raised my eyes

To the crucifix of Christ

This cross I bear

In empty hands

As I stand at the lost and found

For all things lost are found in me

I shed all the tears 

For this day to come

A river of tears is the sum

For a wretched heart

And a soul found in GOD

This ground I till

‘til my labour is found in The LORD

And now all my tears

Come raining down

As I raised my eyes

To the crucifix of Christ

This cross I bear

In empty hands

As I stand at the lost and found

For all things lost are found

Written by Atticus & Carrie Underwood

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King David’s High Sentry

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King Christson’s High Sentry

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All that is bountiful

By Atticus, Taylor, Johnathan David Helser & Melissa Helser

So what will it be

Death or the sea

I see you crying

Is it you or me

But life doesn’t come easy

And now you see

This is what it means to be free

As I laid bare

And as my spirit pours

This I dare

Take me to the wilderness

Take me to all that is bountiful

Take me to the west coast

Take me to Columbia

Take me back to Eden

Take me to our Promised Land

We are the sons of inheritance

And across this sea is freedom...

Oh oh oh oh oh X 4

La la la la la X 4

This sea is where my soul is bearing

And whence the fire kindled from my heart

I call you this is freedom

And I am the SONS of GOD

I am the SONS of GOD

I am the SONS of GOD

Yes I am

I am the SONS of GOD

I am the SONS of GOD

I am the SONS of GOD

This sea is where my soul is bearing

And whence the fire kindled from my heart

I call you this is freedom

And I am the SONS of GOD

This is your right hand of deliverance

GOD you know my heart

These tears are in commemoration

And this cry is from my soul’s Ebenezer

You are my Eucharist and salvation

You are the bread that I eat

And the wine that I drink

Yes, you are the flesh that I eat

And the blood that I drink

And I surrender to your providence

‘cause your providence saved me

This sea is where my soul is bearing

And whence the fire kindled from my heart

I call you this is freedom

And I am the SONS of GOD

I am the SONS of GOD

I am the SONS of GOD

Yes I am

Yes I am

I am the SONS of GOD

Written by Atticus & Taylor

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Endless ocean

By Atticus & Tim McGraw feat. Keith Urban & Coldplay

In ‘97 when my mother died

I cried that night

She told me this is love to her

From the Atlantic of Ireland

To the Pacific of Corea

Love is the endless ocean

And my bleeding heart cried

For all that I’m missing

Then I turned to my brother

I got you

And you got me

And mum has heaven 

Waiting for her

And I hope to God 

You walk her to the pearly white gates

But I know angels don’t fly away in the cold

So I wrote a letter to you

I walked to the Royal Mail

After school and I cried

All the way through

I know you don’t remember me

But I had memories of you

And as you lay in that hospital bed

At the shore of the endless ocean

Of Massachusetts I cried

‘cause what’s left of my memories 

Of my mother rest with you

And I hope she rests in peace

But all her pieces rest with you

So I wrote stories of you

After my mother died

Hoping you would read it

It was in the daily mail 

And I hope you’d been getting my mails

But I know life without her was hard

This life is a mess

So I picked up all the mess

And joined the army

Hoping to heaven our mum is proud

But among the fields where poppies grow

I cried as I write my stories of you

I know you don’t know me

But I love you

And if I die where my brothers died

I hope to heaven you’re proud of me

But I know angels don’t fly away in the cold

So I wrote a letter to you

I walked to the Royal Mail

After school I cried

All the way through

I know you don’t remember me

But I had memories with you

And as you lay in that hospital bed

At the shore of the endless ocean

Of Massachusetts I cried

‘cause what’s left of my memories 

Of my mother rest with you

I hope she rests in peace

But all her pieces rest with you

Yeah all her pieces rest with you

Yeah you know all her pieces rest with you

Written by Atticus

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Twenty Brave National Guards (Texas Kingdom National Anthem)

By Atticus & Blake Shelton feat. Kentsington

O X12

The Sun rose over Lake Texoma

And I held your hand

For all of God’s promise

I know this is The LORD’S Kingdom to come

But we have to do our part

We all took a shot

Of that Tennessee whiskey

For the twenty brave National Guards

Then the one to the left

Said all that’s left of my country

Is God’s Kingdom to come

And the one to the right 

What’s right is we are all

Here to do our part

To save Kingdom Come

So I hope it’s coming

And I cried last night

When I kissed my son goodbye

Knowing my prayer will reach heaven high

And I know if I tell you my story

We all ain’t much

But together we’re the last hope 

This world’s got

So what I got

Is my bruised heart

And all my soul to give

And I know I ain’t some great hero

‘cause I started from zero

But this band of brothers got me going

And when we going passed sixty

This is hell we raising

We flew passed Virginia

And I whispered a prayer to God

If this band of brothers

Pass away by the night

Take my soul to keep

And LORD I pray

My daughter she grows old

And I kissed the crucifix 

For this is the cross I bear

And when the dark night come in sight

I blew the rudder

Hey boys, this is hell we raising

We blew the top off

And chased the hounds of hell

Back to its door

Then I raised hell to the ground

This is hell we raising

This I ain’t kidding

Then I burned Satan’s demons on the cross

This I ain’t kidding

This is hell we raising

And I know if I tell you my story

We all ain’t much

But together we’re the last hope

This world’s got

So what I got

Is my bruised heart

And all my soul to give

And I know I ain’t some great hero

‘cause I started from zero

But this band of brothers got me going

And when we going passed sixty

This is hell we raising

This is hell we raising

Yeah this is hell we raising

O X12

By Atticus