Softly

Softly

Soft and subtle
Until it isn’t
Then it rears its
Ugly head
To bite you
Swallow you
Whole
Wishing to make you
Only dead

satan’s darkness
Works like that
Starting with only angry
Complaints
Working undercover
Until it completely removes
All restraints
To fully destroy you

So they did with Christ
At first,
Only anger’s hatred
Until the evil within man
Fully exploded
Trying to destroy
Someone most sacred
God Himself!

At His last supper
On this green planet
He urged his true followers
Of many things
To love each other,
Honor His blood and body
With powerful words
With Holy truths
His words did ring

Until at last
Men with clubs
Came to gather Him
To his accusers
In only heartbeats
They would soon be His
Physical abusers
Of all these occurrences
Christ was already knowledgeable
Knowing His Father’s will was
Eternally indomitable
Walked into their death trap
And did it always and only
To save all of us, me
And of course,
You!!

Between


Between

Holy Week
A week like no other
Man will ever see
Heaven’s Holy Light
Chose to walk,
Talk with us
Die for us
Give us
The chance to
Do the choosing
Between

Choosing between what
You say?
Between good and evil
Heaven and hell
Death and life
God's peace or
Man's evil strife
Satan's narcissistic destruction
Or
God's sacrificial love

Behind whose back
You choose to follow
In whose steps
You wish to walk
Remember,
One way rings false,
Only hollow
The other leads
To a bliss filled eternity
Full of nothing but God's peace
To be eternally protected by
HIS LOVE'S DIVINE SECURITY!!

Holy Week #2 – His Triumph!!

His Triumph!

Triumphal entry
Fit for,
Worthy of only a King
Words of
HOSANNA!
Forever thru
All the ages
Will they, must they ring

Palms before your feet
Were laid in praise
From among the crowd,
Children's voices were raised
And if they had not
Well,
Then even the rocks
Could not have been stopped
From singing Your Glory!

So thank You, Lord Jesus
For stepping into
Our violent, cruel history
With each step
Each word
Each drop of blood
You declared your victory
And thankfully, blissfully
The world will never
Be the same again!!!

Holy Week!!


This Holy Week!!!!

This Holy Week
Allow all on this world
To Seek
Only Your Face
As each step You took
Upon this dust
Was meant to completely
Erase
Every single, last trace
For each and every soul
Of any or all
Of their deepest disgrace

As palms were laid at Your feet
You came riding always and only
To seek
Our completed well-being
Which as You hung from the
Nails
Was all before Your face
You chose to be seeing
As the skies darkened
The earth shook
Rocks split
As actually You could have
Within your temporary flesh’s life
Never ever did You just simply the saving
Choose To Quit!!

Contained!


Contained!

Surpassing strength
More
Than all the energy
Contained
Within the unseen boundaries
Of this universe
Super nova explode
Stars are birthed
Planets rotate slowly
Evolving
More
Than if all our atomic bombs
Explode
You are more powerful
Than the entirety put together!!

A Holy Trinity dancing
Through infinity
In joy, power
Unseen on earth
Let go, merest man,

Let your heart and mind's
Soul expand!!!

I cannot comprehend
Such beauty, power
Coming from, having no end
I am consigned to traverse
Under the light of only
One strong sun
While in only one hand
You hold creation’s totality

Perhaps that is what is meant
By that old-fashioned word
GLORY
Ah, such wonder
Amazement
Perhaps those thoughts alone
You give to hold off despair
To keep our souls soaring!!

How do You contain
Such energy
Dripping from your
Fingers' tips
Within each thought
From each word
From Your lips
Then I remember
You use some upon
Our world
On us
Down from heaven
Is it hurled
Into glowing red sunsets
Overhead
Multi-colored tulips
Crystal spider's webs
Translucent blue waters
Reaching more than a mile
Each act of love we perform
And into the newborn child's
Very first smile!!

The King


The King

Jesus
Our Holy King
You are
The Only One
The only thing
To save us
From ourselves
From our own
Inhumanity
To each other

Our Prince of Peace
Each and every day
You struggle, You reach
To fill our hearts
With Yourself
Your promises
To fulfill, to keep

So let us
Bow low
On knees
Before your throne
May we receive
Come to own
The golden glow,
The whispers of
Not I that live
But only Christ Jesus
As my life to You
May I mindfully choose
Each and every day to give!!

Praise You
Lord Jesus
Praise You!!