I remember learning about kinetic and potential energy in high school science class.

Kinetic energy is the energy an object possesses due to its motion. Think of your body in a car. You’re just sitting there, but if someone hits the brakes suddenly, kinetic energy forces your body to continue to move.

Potential energy is basically that same energy that CAN happen but hasn’t yet. Does that make sense? Well, potentially it should.

One day, back in October of 1989, I thought about how those two energy forces can be applied to my love for God. I have the love that stores up inside me…the potential love…that waits for an opportunity to be expressed. And I also have the love…the kinetic love… that spills out of me from an overflowing heart of gratitude. God can do those sorts of things to you if you allow yourself to be swept up in His Grace.

Well, that’s the short explanation of how I came up with…

Kinetic Love

I got dreams like the sand on the shore.
I got plans formulating inside.
I got hopes just waiting for an open door,
And I got a system true and tried.
I got a force deeper than a heartbeat.
I got a strength more potent than a storm.
I got a love that’s music for my dancing feet.
I got a place that’s always warm.

I got kinetic love…I got potential love,
And there’s a kingdom come waiting down the line.
I got a lavish love, and I got a simple love,
And I gotta share this love ’cause it ain’t just mine.

I got songs married to my mind.
I got art no one else can see.
I got roads just waiting to be driven down,
And I got a faith that sets me free.
I got a gold you can’t measure on earth.
I got jewels in the sparkling dew.
I got a wealth that doesn’t have a mortal worth,
And I got a God who gets me through.

© Copyright 1989 Tony Funderburk

Till next time”