Not Okay
War is not okay
Rape is not okay
Child abuse is not okay
Poverty is not okay
Neither is the extreme greed
That seems to fuel & feed
The wealthier countries
The world is not now okay,
God never meant for it
To ever be this way!!
As we close our eyes
Stare vacantly toward the sky
& ignore the surrounding
Abnormal pain
Have we become so
Senseless, brain dead
We accept this world as normal?
Or shouldn’t we instead
Be a part of its re-creation?
We were never meant
ourselves to tear & rend
Into many small pieces
We were meant to
Live as God’s friend
In His perfected paradise
In love with HIM
& each other
Instead we choose
Against HIM to rebel
Oh, how I wish this
Evil inside ourselves
We could banish, quell!
We have lived like this
For so long
I am not sure we can
Any longer even see
what is wrong
But there is hope
For on a happier day
For those who have
Chosen to follow CHRIST'S way
God’s power & might
Will triumph, have sway
Once again the world
Will be perfected
All pain will disappear!!
Encounter
(on a busy sidewalk)
a busy city sidewalk
crowded,
elbow to elbow
on every face is
shown
pressure mounting
higher, higher
streets full of cars
jostling for position
under each red light
this caravan of busy
reaching out of sight
noisy cacophony of
impatient horns
But yet, into
This man-made
Mess of madness
A sense of peace,
True Destiny,
Walks with us
Side by side
On each busy street
& sidewalk
Unseen, but not
Unfelt
He walks
In His royal robe
Searching, looking
Passing by
Among us
Longing to touch
Each heart
Desiring to give
Reveal, impart
Himself
A better life
Temporarily out of
Sight
But sensed
In that small breeze
That touches
Your skin
Ruffles the edges
Of your heart
Look up
New life begins
At the edge of
The old
As your King
Walks past
In the crowd
Let him win
Without any doubt
Yourself
Without a sound
Or shout
He will give to you
More than a busy
Sidewalk’s chaos
Let him come, refresh
As only Christ can do
& give to you
A better life anew!
Set Apart
We were meant
To be set apart
I believe this
Deeply in my heart
Different we
Should striveto be
So all the world
May see
Our Leader
His purity
Love
Light
Goodness
To this we Should run
As we struggle
To shun
The world
Sure, we have
To live in it
Love it for sure
But
We are not to
Be of it
We’re meant
To live
In a way much
More pure
Not as greedy,
Sexually immoral,
Bloodthirsty,
Selfish
These things
We should
Not be
His holy love
More giving
The world
In Us
Should see
A Holy Bride
He longs for usto be
As we wait on
Bended knees
Longing to please
Only Him
Let us win
This race
As we let go
Of every trace
Of ourselves
Let us dare
To be different
Stand out
Give a holy shout
Christ’s Name
It is the same
Yesterday, Today
Tomorrow
For His return will
Overcome
All death, pain,
& every sorrow
SomedayIt still amazes me, Lord
That even yet today
You want to share
Your Goodness with me
My imperfections are almost
As numerous & vast
As the span of one of
Your seasI stumble, I fall
I walk then I crawl
Down here I never
Quite pull it all
TogetherYet Someday I know
Yourself you will show
To each, to every & all
I will live to display,
on that Heaven’s Perfected Day
Only Your Shining Glory
My imperfections will be
Forever washed, wiped
Completely Away!
Smear Campaign
A smear campaign,
A dark, thick smoky
Cloud
From eons ago
From the beginning
Hoping it would be
Winning
Against Heaven’s
Throne
Against the Holy
One
At first this cloud
Merely a slight stench
But
Today,
There is a mighty
Fist clenched
Around the throats
Of man
An evil hand
Works against the sons,
Daughters of man
Worldwide
Grown stronger
Only because we
Have lingered
To listen to its voice
At its gates longer
Than we should
Telling us we
Are only physical
Only the natural
Exists
This naturalism
Fighting to form
A schism
Between man
And His Creator
It’s goal
Is to destroy
All efforts
To acknowledge
Man has
a soul
Eternal, unending
Ageless
To Smear, slander
God’s holy family
Point out its flaws
Of which it has many
Still under Christ’s hand
It struggles forward
At His command
To love His world
So the great destroyer
Entices
Uses our vices,
To draw man in
To this ancient battle
satan knows
he cannot win
destroy everything
spiritual
a worldwide campaign
in a sense
literal
using our worldly
lusts
those great two
Money, Power
as the world
spins toward
a darker hour
powers that be
are blinded
cannot see
they are being used
& very abused
to try to bring about
a kingdom’s
end
As I glance upward
To the skies
Using our greatest weapon
A prayer begins
Within my heart I cry
As the battle around me
Intensifies
Dull Ache
A Dull Ache
Somewhere
In the middle
Growing larger
No longer little
A need
more insistent
Almost a sharp
Pain
Then becomes
a Joy
This, the means
You employ
To draw me
Closer
Your Spirit
Entices
I come to
a Sun,
Beautiful Light,
Perfection
Holding only
Life
Your Purity
Your Goodness
You breathe
Eternity
Return to me
I will return
To you
As my
Desire
Intensifies
I wonder
When it will
Be met
This ache
This longing
We all
Within feel
This unmet
Need
We constantly
Try to fill
With shallow
Thrills,
Cheap pleasures
Life can feel
Like walking
Uphill
With a heavy
load
Your beauty, God
the only real
goad
To continue
Earth
As it is now
Will never be
Utopia,
[perfection’s
power]
Only with
Christ’s return
Will that
For which we
Yearn
Be Met!
Revelation 7:9-10 After this I looked, and there before me
was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation,
tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before
the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm
branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice:
“Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”
Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb at the center of the throne
will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of
living water’, and ‘God will wipe away every tear from
their eyes’.
