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I got to ride my bike again today on a longer ride, almost ten miles. It’s my new hobby, and I love it! I am a 2X cancer survivor, and I’m grateful God lets me enjoy the bike riding. Each day feels like a gift to still be able to enjoy life with my family & friends. May God bless your day. Praise Him for his grace and mercy!!
Also I could not resist this photo of some beautiful, massive old sycamore trees at the water’s edge. In winter without the leaves, you can see their white bark even better. Have a good day!
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’.
Answer
Most stand calling
Not realizing they do
What is it they Desire?
They need You,
Lord, God
The passion, fire
Of your heart
For them!
That is the answer
We all need.
In blindness &
Stumbling, fumbling Is this not what
We all seek?
Seeking joy, peace,
Fulfillment,
Love
We wander, fight
Shove
For our share
Of this earth
When all true lifeFlows freely from above.
INSIDE GOD’S HEART
We were made to live
From the very start
This is the purpose,
ANSWER
For which we were
Created
In only this,
Are all needs sated
To live daily
In contentment
More Fulfilled
Try as much as you
Can
To live inside
His Will
His Intellect,
His purposes
Your old man
That self
Must be killed
To let Him have
His way
Over you
His swaySo you may say,
Not I but Christ
That liveth in me.
But because we turn
Away
Harden our hearts,
Without our true calling
We endlessly wander
Thru all of life
Unsatisfied, discontent
stumbling
& falling
My Debts Up to my eyeballs in debt
I sigh I moan
I truly, deeply regret
What I have done
To myself
No one else to blame
Oh, the embarrassing shame!
Oh, what I cannot claim
Of wisdom
Loud commercials
Made it seem so real
Oh, their endless appeal
So, I got sucked in
By the alluring din
Of a greedy world
So now I am an endless slave
This I can mostly certainly say
Onward I go
Trying to show
A new confidence
I slug away
Each morning, new day
At the mountainous debt
Trying to correct
This wreck
I’ve made of my life
I know it will end
And I will never, ever,
Ever again spend
Myself into this death march
toward another fresh & open
financial grave
Probably not such a good poem for this time of year, right before the biggest gift giving holiday, but still timely I hope. Remember it’s only one day out of the year. Remember God loves you and wants only the best for you and your family. Have a blessed and peace filled day!
3 Somebodies
Three on a throne
Living as one
Universe awash in
Their love
Throbbing, pulsating
In beauty
Breathing as one
More life-giving
Than any sun
A Father, Son &
Holy Spirit
Above this world
They reach to lift,
This is their unique gift
For each of us
So we are blessed
During the tests
Of these our lives
To be not loved
By just one
3 hands reach down
toward the violent sounds
of our discord and ugly abuse
of each other
3 somebodies
To conquer this world
Help us transcend
Into their joy & a
Love which never
Ever ends!!
I pray everyone can have a very God blessed day today. Praise God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. You are completely and 100% loved.
