The reason I need a Messiah
Is because of the, quote, “Mess I Are”
It feels like I’m fighting a hydra
My striving will not get me far
Category Archives: Poetic
3/25 Limerick: Gift Withholding
Standard“Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.”
Matthew 5:23-24 NIV
If You are withholding Your gift
Maybe it’s due to our rift
It’s always worthwhile
That we reconcile
To show the world we get Your drift!
3/24 Limericks: HyperSense
StandardLord, maybe it’s me who is dense
But sometimes You just don’t make sense
And how can I act
When meaning is lacked
And cost of failure immense?
3/23 Limerick: God-Pardner
StandardLord, I want God as my pardner
So I can best do what I oughter
With you at my side
I’m your secure Bride
And we raise the world like our daughter!
So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
John 5:19
3/22 Lyrics: He Wills
StandardWhile Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell facedown and begged Him, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”
Luke 5:12
HE WILL always love you
Though you might not believe it
HE WILL give good blessings
Yet it’s hard to receive it
3/21 Poem: Revealing Love
StandardWe cannot exist in a world
Unless the divine be concealed
His glory would us overwhelm
If this earthy veil be unpeeled
3/20 Limerick: Marvel, Heroes
StandardWe are not all of us heroes
But we can still testify, “He rose!”
When Grace triumphs Law
He fills us with awe
And calls us to cast nets while He rows
3/19 Limerick: God Bless My Foes
StandardBlessings on all of my foes!
For even the worst of my woes
Serve but to reveal
The pain that I feel
Is what brings the healing Christ chose
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
Matthew 5:44
3/18 Limerick: Lighten Up
Standard3/17 Limericks: Word Choke
StandardI know it may sound like a joke
But sometimes on Your Word I choke
The truth that I find
O’erwhelms my mind
Fearing that I’ll end up broke
Lord plow up the soil of my heart
Make me the place where you start
Sowing your joy
So we destroy
Those lies that do us keep apart
3/16 RSVP: Salt Mine
StandardLord, now that I’ve left Your ocean
I find myself struck by the notion
That salt is the thing that I lack
For which I must always go back
3/15 Limerick: Unfolding Mystery
StandardThe story which our lives make told
Is one which must slowly unfold
The mystery seems dark
But grace is the spark
That unveils the path we enrolled
He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables
Mark 4:11
3/14 Limericks: Burn Out/In
StandardFor Robby
The cure for burnout is burn-in:
First finding the failures within
Our need to be used
Will leave us confused
Twixt service and slavery to sin
3/13 Limerick: Dance Floor
StandardThis world has its ups and its downs
Sometimes tis more crosses than crowns
But even its worst
Makes me for you thirst
Your dance is the floor to my frowns
3/12 Limerick: Evil Lies
StandardLord, help me to realize
The essence of evil is lies
The pain that we feel
Though it seems real
Is actually grace is disguise!
Question: How do I demonstrate grace metabolizing pain into trust?
#Laughter
3/11 RSVP: Impossibly Obedient
Standard“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”
Luke 5:5
Lord, if I’m being honest
I’m starting to doubt what you promised
I feel I’ve been fishing all night
Yet nothing still seems to go right
3/10 Poem: March Heir
StandardIt may seem I’m mad just to dare it
Yet this world I’m called to inherit
Not by the strength of my arm
But making myself open to harm
3/9 Poem: Mourning Broken
StandardLord you know the pain of this world
Into which we have been hurled
We are each one broken part
Of your once unbroken heart
3/8 Gangsta Rap: Kingdom Rich
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Continue reading3/7 Limerick+: Laugh at the Devil
StandardI stick my neck out like giraffe
When I dare at Satan to laugh
But though he seems grim
The joke is on him
I see through this world’s holograph
My ID is Christ’s autograph
HIS love my true epitaph
Radically Happy 
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