Monday, December 2, 2019

Departed


 

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God sees our pain
And raises us Grace
He will not be bested by darkness
Or deep seas
Or unparted waters of any kind...

Come hell or high water
Heaven will hold...

Thus held,
We journey on

Promised Land
Awaits...

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Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Unparted



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I stepped into the Red Sea
And Drowned

The waters overflow me
As I sink

   Down           
            
           Down

   Down      

Till, like a stone
      I hit the ground    

Silt, softly burying
bygone dreams
harbored hopes 
Suffocating

Still...

Incredulous eyes
Stare up at the surface
Sickly light seeping through
A fool watching for Phantoms
Lazerus yet hopeful he hasn't been lost
Straining, Searching
Somewhere Still Believing

Even
As her last breath
Departs

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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Grief



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A Torrent
A Flood
A River

Tears always described by water 
By great forces of nature 
As grief seems to be

To what end? 
To carve out, what? 
Canyons in our hearts
Where courses deep the water
Which truly quenches thirsty souls 

And isn't that what we're all here for, anyway...

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Monday, August 19, 2019

consecrated...



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on we go, "consecrating this time, this journey, this life to God", 

like a fish, consecrating the ocean to God.....

How He must smile........

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Sunday, June 16, 2019

Lost?



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The Wanderlust Life
We lead on this planet

Our Oz
Our Far Country
Where the Wild Things Are

Yellow Brick Roads
Prodigal Parties
Our days whirling round
The Wild Rumpus of it all

Till one day
Road Weary
Disillusioned by the din
We tire of the endless circling
Our Dervish wanderings...

Yet ever peripheral
Persists Promised Land's pull
Closer than breath
Calling...

We dance unaware
Right on the edge
Feeling always the eventual falling...

Siren song or Still Small Voice?
I like to think the latter
Gravitational Grace
Bending our way
Vectoring us Home...

Every One of us...

Finally...

Forever...

Home...

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"Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the Way and bring you into the place which I have prepared."
-Exodus 23:20

Sunday, May 5, 2019

Twinkle


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Twinkle twinkle Little Star 
funny little star we are 
full of angst and rivalries 
hopes and dreams
 and follies

 In the scheme of things
 We are so small 
Our problems even smaller 
Such that someone miles away 
Might look upon us all and say, 
"Twinkle twinkle little star,
how I wonder what you are"

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Psalm 144:4

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Hush



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We struggle so to hear 
The Still Small Voice:

Sing the right song,
Pray the right prayer,
Sit just so,
Eat just so,
or no...

I play guitar
And sometimes
When the strings are strummed
I feel a soft silence fall
As though I have bent all of Heaven's Ear
As though,
Perhaps,
He also loves my still small voice
And bids the angels hush
So He can hear...

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"Oh my dove, my darling, in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely."
-Song of Solomon 2:14

Saturday, April 6, 2019

Time Travel


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Grace Alone
 Can travel 
Through time
Through space
 Past and Future 
Reaching 
Healing
 Filling in the gaps...

 The "might-have-beens" 
The "should-have-dones" 
Our failures 
Our falterings

 And turn for good 
And alchemize
 The basest parts
 The broken things

 Grace cocoons these places
 Metamorphosing our moments 
Making joy out of mourning
Gold out of garbage
Wings out of worms

Grace weaves through every tick of time
From Beginning to End
Backwards
And Forward 
Turning our lives into a tapestry
 Fit for our King

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"All things work together for good..."
-Romans 8:28

Saturday, March 9, 2019

Beauty



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The Match is Struck
When we are born

And we burn through our Lives

Hopefully bringing Warmth
And Light
to Others

Which may, indeed, be our only Purpose...

...Letting God
Turn our Ashes
Into
Beauty

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Isaiah 61:3

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Dark III


"The Lord said he would dwell in the dark cloud"
-I Kings 8:12

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In the darkness
 In the spin
 In the bewilderment of Which-Way-Is-Up

We are helped 
We are husbanded
 We are harnessed into Him 

When all we feel is madness
 Method holds us 
In higher ways
 In higher thoughts ...

In the dark cloud 
We are tethered to Light 
and Light Himself
 will lead us 
Home

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