Culture, Culture
Culture, culture
Ringing in my ear
It’s sometimes on a day
All I can hear
Floating through the air
On radio waves
Forcing into my mind
Everything it intends to say
TV, movies, books even
Magazines
It intrudes its way in
Trying to please
The lower side of me
But by grace, I have been allowed to see
Vanity, vanity, all its vanity
So I shake my head
Loosen its hold
Coiled around my mind
Step out of the endless line
Of those being controlled
Selling out their very souls
To a world in love
With only its Self
Instead loosen that self
To fall in love with
Someone else
A greater God awaits
Holding out hands
To raise you up, to abate
All the noise of a lost,
Sad, desperate world
To rejoin you to himself
He paid in His own Blood!
So do not let the noisy flood
Of a lost culture
Destroy your Joy-filled Hope
Of an eternal paradise insured
Thru faith in our Christ’s cross!!
Loss
What is this sense of loss
Of a deep sadness,
Despair
Then I raise my head
To look at You
& You smile!
And my heart is even
More beguiled
And enticed
To follow You
But I am stuck
On the other side of
An uncrossable chasm
For I know on my own
I cannot
Even begin to start
To conquer its deep gorges
A dark fog envelops
My mind & heart
Then someone touches
Down with a hand
It is Your Son of Man
His blood paved the way
Because I was oh so lost
Until He reached across
So on this dark side
I need never stay
Alone, rejected digressing
From your eternal blessings
Christ is that bridge
That eternal ridge
Of hope & joy
For everyone to cross
Over into God’s love
You do not have to sit in
The darkness of eternal loss
But you must take that first step
Reach for the outstretched hand
Of the undying Son of Man!
Above is a frame shot of a new video I did. I finally finished working in a new video editing program with it and added a poem to it that I put on my blog just recently. You can view it on my Youtube channel at https://youtu.be/mSTYu8a7Cys. Hope you enjoy it and may God bless your day!
The Seer
God wants you to be
A Seer
The One who sees
Himself
His great beauty, love
For you
With this he wishes
To imbue
Everyone
To see, know
His only Son
His Holy Spirit
For you this is
His most precious gift
He desires to bestow
Upon every head
Seers see things
Others cannot
Or do not wish to see
Do not let them stop
Your desire, ability
To understand, perceive
Let all as seers drop
To our knees
From there we will be able
To appreciate the best
This world has to offer
Be given glances, looks
Into the overflowing coffers
Of God’s riches
It is His deepest wish
To share Himself
His nearness
With all of us
Along with
Christ’s own sweet dearness
So when Christ
Physically returns
A new, recreated earth
A recreated people
Will be yours
If for that you have yearned
And for now you choose
To be the one who grasps,
Understands, realizes, envisions
To be that Seer!
Your New Beginning
On a cross
At the time of
Heaven’s greatest loss
Hung the world’s creator
As His own creation
Destroyed His physical life
All heaven held its
Breath & waited
Watched as hell & satan’s
Power fell, was abated
Telling one so new to faith,
Today, you will be with
Me in paradise!
Angels watching wept
His earthly mother cries
With ‘It is finished’ for
His last few words
His spirit left, hurled
Only an empty body curled,
Crushed from the pain
By human eyes still seen
Hanging on that wooden beam
But it was not His end
All death was spurned
New life for us He earned
With a resurrection so fresh
God’s answer to his death
For us ended with a YES
Thru our faithful lives,
As it was for His,
Your death will be your winning
Of His newborn Paradise
Your total, complete & new beginning!
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Our greenway system is so beautiful that in spots it is almost like being in the middle of the Smokey Mountain National Park and Gatlinburg, but you’re still in the middle of a busy and growing city. Enjoy your day!
Dear Lord, I pray these people may come to know your overwhelming and unconditional love for them not just intellectually, in their minds, but in their guts, their hearts, may they feel it. That they will let you become intimate with them, and they can know that you created the earth with such beauty for them to enjoy and take pleasure in out of your great love for them. Amen
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