Dissipation (melting away) My shell will dissipate Allowed no longer To participate At this level The real of me At last, will be allowed to see My Lord, God, finally Will I with you be To be lifted up On wings of bliss O’ my soul Of this I care not to, Dare not to miss Living in your light Clarity, love & might To know fully As I am fully known All will be exposed At last, your truth shown By You, God, To be eternally owned All this, from before my eyes Will no longer be withheld!!
Why? Why do we not see Is it we cannot Or do not want to be Faithful, submissive Obedient To someone greater Than the I of me? Hardening of the heart To the idea of such a God To all of life gives Only a very false start Saying I don’t Want to see Does not change Our Reality Open your inner eyes On just the physical Do not rely Do not wear IGNORANCE As a disguise For refusal A lack of perusal Into the gracious beauty Of Our Father/Creator!
The Big Come Down A King on a Royal Throne At the bequest of another Acquiesced to give up Its glorious golden glow Fell to His knees Father, Your plan I will obey On a fateful, cold winter’s night Appeared a most unusual sight A single star hung in a blackened sky For wise men to search by To find this King laying in straw For man, the most holy, precious gift 0f all Come to save us from ourselves But to do so among us had to dwell Live with us, sleep with us With us eat Having a most intense promise To keep Knowing it could only be done In horrific pain He vowed to do it just the same So history’s biggest Come Down occurred A Prince to His Father deferred Left a throne of infinity’s power So in a short lifetime he might shower Man with God’s forgiveness at last Even for Him, It was a most formidable task Suffered through our ignorance, brutality Forced to His knees Spiked to a wooden cross Heaven’s Own Son From our evil we could not run But this enormous Come Down Brings to us the most unique sound Of powerful angels’ voices raised To this Christ, God’s Only Son Their splendid, magnificent, holy praise
Better Than DisneyWorld? Better than Disney World? Could there be such a thing? Better than Florida’s palace of pure pleasure Full of dreams forever we may treasure With multiple hurrahs let our voices ring But its gilded halls & walls Eventually you must leave & return with only reality left to see Back to a world of suffering, wars Even more abuses left in store But God promises better Than an insincere, synthetic fantasy Hard to imagine this I know But this is what He longs for us to see Beyond an artificial man-made glow Lies the real thing He wants to renew His world Along with each, man, woman, Boy & girl Doesn’t matter if you are old or young A girl, a daughter, or perhaps Someone else’s son No more suffering No more dying To dry each tear Remove the crying So, Why not let Him? Return to me, I will return to you Why not let Him your own heart Your very own soul renew? Removing each trace Of all the old So a different world’s story Can be at last told While we joyfully lift hands in praise & look upon eternity’s kindest Above all others Face! Malachi 3:6-7 I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. RETURN TO ME, AND I WILL RETURN TO YOU,” says the Lord Almighty.
Summer Haiku
Your inner man dies
Filling with the living Christ
this is true self-love
Easter White rabbits & chocolate bunnies All those warm, soft fuzzies Pastel eggs hidden in green grass Until a happy child makes A joyful discovery of them at last With loud, sudden squeals of delight What a truly pleasing sight! All dressed up in clean, bright clothes All done for this day’s special show Soft ribbons in the hair New shoes, polished, & on the feet & goodies that will not long Be allowed in a basket to keep Nothing wrong with these simple delights God does not mind us Enjoying all his blessings But with many of these gifts May also at times come a terrible testing This day of Easter is really About a sacrifice Not to be forgotten For all our joys & pleasures Came at the cost of another’s life! A bloodied cross, a broken body An empty tomb God’s love on display Brought about all of the Joys & pleasures of this day Made us once more Welcome in Heaven Brought us back into God’s loving arms Safe at last from all of satan’s cruelest harms So on that most glorious day Our eternal souls were saved As Christ stepped back out Into a world He owned Eternity’s power rolled back That oh so heavy stone So you too also may Be allowed to step out of Your own emptied grave!!
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