Joy
J ust as the darkness
Tries to settle in
Your joy starts, begins
A canopy over despair
Always will it win
O nly in looking up
Learning in You, Christ,
Simply to trust
Will I avoid into my soul
A violent world's
Angry thrusts
Y earning, turning
More deeply, completely
To You, Lord God,
Will I ever in this broken world
Be able to better know, show
YOUR JOY!!!
The Spark!
Strike the spark
Let it burn
Within our hearts
For more and more
should we yearn
Of you Lord Jesus
You are Our One God
Among your humble sheep
Did you live, come to trod
Pausing at times among us to weep
But never forgot at times
Your pleasant laugh to keep
So fan the sparks
Those tiny flames
Within our hearts
Even if we think at first
Too small to matter
For if they do not rise & scatter
But form as one
Coming together
A new fiery love for you
May they Ignite
A newer, deeper passion
In our spirits excite
For our living, breathing
Reigning Christ!!
The Reason
A political chaos,
A mess,
Rages outside our doors
Seeming louder, louder
More and more
But is it the real issue
Really the Problem?
Or is there something
Penetrating deeper
into each home
Down into the
Marrow of our bones?
Chaos, pain
The symptoms
Of a general sickness
Not just in this country
Worldwide a plague is this
Screaming, howling,
An everyday test
We sense the underlying
Abnormalness,
In our hearts a deviation
From a clearest sanity
Could it be from our hands
The faults, all our own creation?
Most, or should I say all
Ancient civilizations
Felt an undergirding need
In the heart an inner call
For something outside the self
Dare I call it a god?
Is this the hand we seem
To have been dealt?
The answer is missing
Unless we pay close attention
Let's stop all the searching
Listen to our own urgings
To words inspired by a Holy Spirit
Meant in our minds to clear it
This worldwide, mass confusion
Take it out of the hidden darkness
Away from secretive collusion
This answer to the stress
All our world's lamenting strife
Look to our King, our Lord
Our loving Jesus Christ!!
Already Kicked Out!
satan is already defeated
(Yes, Praise You, Lord God!)
Already kicked out of heaven
To the words in a Holy Book
Do not needlessly your ears deaden
Of all others known to need to learn,
Is this an utterly important lesson
So,
Why still the battle
Down here below?
It is for your mind
Man’s, your heart
Is still the earthly struggle
Now here on this earth
Is the proving ground
Attune your heart, mind
Your ears to what’s happening
The battles spinning all around
Does not take too much effort
To see the sights of evil
And every day its lurid sounds
Be aware, it is your choice
In joy, lift up your voice
Be God’s envoy
Every man, woman,
Believing girl, every boy
Already in VICTORY do you walk
No more by satan’s terrors
Ever to be stalked
For remember,
satan is already defeated
Your eternal paradise awaits
For you, strong warrior,
Only perfect love resides
Behind Heaven’s living gates
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