Fine Tune Fine tune me like a fiddle Carve me, shape me In your hands may you whittle Until I sing, resonate And to your tunes vibrate Play me all day long Projecting, singing Only your songs Of Your Joy, Love, Glory, Stupendousness And may I only in your hands, Lord God, Sound out the songs Upon which others may dance!
The Next Time
People very often say
As sickness or death
Looms closer in our path
Intrudes into our life’s way
“It’s better than the
alternative.”
Meaning I suppose
As on their way they persist & go
in whatever horrific condition
to be alive
Is better than life’s alternative,
Death
I shake my head, my tongue I bite
Do they not know?
Our God in the flesh,
Spiked to man’s cruel piece of wood
Dying in His own blood so red
This one we call Savior, Christ
Turned to another & said,
Today with me will you be
in My Paradise!
Why do we not trust in His words
What awaits for all who believe
& stay loyal to this beautiful Christ
Is so glorious a Paradise
Free of all pain or strife
New body, new way to exist
Totally, completely a better New Life!
A man,
Once a fisherman by trade
Until that most compelling day
He heard Jesus of Nazareth say,
“Come, follow me”
In a letter this apostle wrote,
Live as foreigners & exiles
On this, a world so fallen
So the next time I hear
Someone say those words
I will have to be honest, I fear,
And be compelled to say
No, I live & wait for a better way
To Share in His Most Perfect
& Newest of All My Days!
1 Peter 1:17 Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear.
1 Peter 2:11 Dear Friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.
Haiku For A Very Cold Winter’s Day
Eternity’s child
Receives the gift of God’s smile
Resting in Christ’s arms
If I Were You When you mess with me You mess with Him Because I belong to Him I am His precious child His beloved Bride Pure & holy At least in His eyes So, If I were you I would leave me alone! He will leave no stone Unturned To save me, redeem me Protect me Even though you think Destroyed I may be But Believe me I am not! At this place, this spot Where you think I am gone In heaven’s purest portals I rejoice again, again & again With the loudest of songs With His powerful angels I dance In pure joy For just to take one quickest glance At God’s face So again, if I were you I would leave me alone!
Get Out of The Way Get out of the way A change is coming to stay Growing closer each & every day This world, HIS earth God is going to shake!! Everything around us Everything that is now seen Done away with Will it be Before our eyes Will it flee Death, evil, satan’s darkness Prepare your hearts Your very soul To transform, change us Save Us Has always been Christ’s deepest most heartfelt goal But heed the ancient Book’s warning All who refuse His Loving Voice For you, At His spectacular second coming, Will be no more second choice Put away, endlessly forever roaming In infinity’s Pain-filled Outer Darkness So prepare yourselves Get ready Remain in your faith Ever-Steady Watch as He comes This One & Only Son Once again to change, Re-create His Earth!!
Knee Deep There you are Knee deep in those waters Where most sense danger And then run & scatter Yet you have wandered outward Seemingly without a care All around you life’s flows never cease But do not be so foolish As to let all your follies increase Beware those seemingly Placid waters for now Do not upward rise quickly & underneath them drag you down God still cries, holds out arms To bring you home Back onto a safer ground Wishes for you to cease to roam No longer within his voice’s sound Or out of his love’s caresses Leave those roaring depths of satan’s dangers All those lurid temptations hold nothing but the cunning voice of a stranger Yield to Christ’s love flowing freely In His bright blood on a cross Step out of those cold dark powers That carry only the pain of sin’s deepest loss
SoulSails 