
Only with Pure Fire
Can the Spirit inspire you
to Christ’s Holy Life!

Only with Pure Fire
Can the Spirit inspire you
to Christ’s Holy Life!

The March
March, March, March
Marching thru life
We will all go on
Restless and in strife
Without the truth of
Reality’s sight
People on a sidewalk’s
Hardened concrete surface
March through existence
And only death’s curse
And its unending insistence
Will finally end their march
If we only will open our eyes
Peruse what lies beyond
That thinnest veil of the skies
Look up, a loving God waits
Longing, sighing wishing
Your unhappy pain to abate
Do not stay lost
Lonely in that pain
Look up
Let Him call your name
Take that tiniest first step
Eternity’s most splendid pleasures
Wait to be your greatest gain!

Jeremiah
Jeremiah, Jeremiah
With your prophet’s heart on fire
In our city’s streets
You’re crying
Hands raised
Pleading as you’re
Sighing
You are trying to inspire
With the Spirit’s holy flame
Dark, hardened hearts
The Post-modernist’s only
Claim to fame
Return to me, I’ll
Return to you
our God says
Elohim, Creator
Holding out hands
Your eternal Father
Crystal tears He sheds
As we toss & turn on beds
Deep in sweaty pain
Caused by sin, illicit gain
Greed’s ugliest names
Only ourselves to blame
Worshipping things
That we have made
With restless hands
We reach for our graves
Affirming our own verdict
A terrible day is coming
Oh, there will be a mighty burning
Heaven, earth
Gone with a thunderous roar
Souls with anguish will be torn
Knowing their last chance
Forever is no more
In life their hearts they
Hardened
Disobedient,
refused their pardon
To follow a loving Father’s
Path for life
Chose their own way
Depravity’s lusts
Into His hands
They would not trust
Their only souls
So now the bell does toll
The old world’s ways
Are forever sold
Into oblivion’s
Darkest pit
So, please listen,
As the prophet calls
Heed the warnings clearly told
In a Holy Book of old
Save yourself
and
Someone else!!

Low Country
Lowlands
Wet and swampy
Unfit for much
Except life
Suited to live
Among the muck
It does not matter
How rich, how high
You think you live
I tell you no lie
Earth as it is now
Is that low country,
Our lowlands
This level of existence
We now pass thru
This lower level of life
This body even with resistance
Still crumples and dies
A chasm we cannot cross
Except thru death
Separates us temporarily
From the highlands
In a clearer air there
Will we breathe
God’s higher land
calls our name
Do not turn a deaf ear
Until you can no longer hear
Its gracious call
His promises will sound
as always, Faithful
Never run us aground
Reach for the higher path
And walk in that
purer, more noble land

Words
Words, words
That drip from
The tip
Of my pen
Or the corner
Of my lip
Words, words
Spit out into the sky
They whiz, they buzz, they fly
Inherently imbibed
With power
For the hour
Into whence they have
Been sent
Sometimes careless,
Sometimes meant
To build or destroy
So be careful with those words
Those unkind or gracious pearls
Thrown like darts
Out from the heart
Let them pour
Another target to be scored
Do not allow our only world
To be killed
Rather let them always spill
Out joy’s true kindness!



Before Time
Or
Space
Deep, impenetrable
Blackness
Infinity of emptiness
Except
At the foot of one throne
was endless festivity
Powerful creatures
Danced in jocularity
Perpetual light,
Emanating from only
One source
God Himself
His Life, His Grace
They danced in
Perfect joy
Father, Son, Spirit
Moved as one
Vapor trails of life
Followed each step
Man was not seen
Uncreated yet
Did He carry us
In His bosom
Unborn but not unloved?
How long did it take
His plan for a new world
To make
Split seconds or
Half of all eternity?
We will never know
This He’s never shown
Time really can stand still
Within Heaven’s gates
Thus He started a new story
It was perfection’s glory
A totally new creature
Never before seen
This, His man
New world, new animals
All formed
To live in peace, harmony
On a glowing orb
Of green and blue
Never will we know
I was not there to watch
His show
As God delicately spun
From nothing
A perfect world