What are the contents of heaven
With which this world we must leaven?
The grace of Christ
Bought at great price
Turns up our love to eleven!
Tag Archives: love
1/27 Poem: Secrete Love
StandardTake my life
And let it be
Con-secreting
Love like thee
1/25 Poem: Nimosity
StandardIf we’re to fill the world
With His luminosity
We must display
Inverse animosity
1/23 Poem: The Me You See
StandardThe key to conquering
Insecurity
Is learning to see You
As You see me
Quick List: Reconcile the Drama
StandardWhat I learned about restoring relationships — and finding myself — from watching Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Continue reading1/14 Poem: Pure Mercy
StandardSometime we show Mercy from Fear
Because our own judgement is near
Sometimes we show Mercy from Pride
To boast we have nothing to hide
To those who receive it’s the same
As long as they stay in the game
1/8 Limerick: Dis-Orphaned
StandardJohn 1:12
When we live our life as orphans
We don’t see the need for chore-plans
But when you’re secure
It pays to mature
To share in the joys of your clans
1/3 Limerick: Holy Won
StandardOf holiness there is but one
Who’s fit to make us wholly won
His love we don’t doubt
Christ came inside-out
That we may live out what He’s done
“And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.””
Matthew 3:17
12/23 Limericks: Knowing Love
StandardIt’s easy to love unaware
Pretending the darkness ain’t there
To trust what we feel
Convinced that it’s real
Til circumstance lays it bare
12/21 Poem: Dividual
StandardA fruitful individuality
Transforms both my self and community
I cannot just go with the flow
I must learn the power of “No!”
Yet contrary words won’t suffice
I must learn to judge myself twice
12/17 Poem: A Measure of Faith
StandardThe measure of Faith
Is how we respond
When circumstances
Tempt us to despond
12/14 Limerick: Ad-Options
StandardWhen we felt we had no more options
Christ offered us God-adoptions
This security
Sets our hearts free
To love more like kings than like orphans
Mrs. Jesus 4/7: Thor’s Hammer Day
StandardContinued from Mrs Jesus 3/7: Wed-ness Day
Friday, I have a date with a tree.
Today I am getting my nails done.
I am terrified.
It’s days like these I ask myself why I ever married Jesus…
12/6 Sonnet: Walk-Up Call
Standard“Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.”
Genesis 5:24
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
I need to fix my gaze on heaven’s gate
Then try my walking boots on, just for size
And calculate my upward climbing rate
12/1 Poem: The Manifest-est
StandardThe truth that we must learn to feel
Is just how deeply Christ is real
This world with its pleasures and pain
Loves to impose on our brain
Illusions of solidity
That overwhelm eternity
11/30 Lyrics: Re-Member Me Lord
StandardHat tip to Coco
Lord when I fall apart
Re-member me
When pain engulfs my heart
Help me see Thee
For life is still so short
And cursed with ill report
And evil seems to thwart
My noblest effort
Mrs Jesus 3/7: Wed-ness Day
StandardContinued from Mrs. Jesus #2/7: Two’s Day Out
I wake up early to make pancakes for the kids.
Jesus shows up to breakfast a little later than usual.
He kisses me on the cheek.
I don’t look him in the eye.
He gives me a knowing look, but doesn’t say anything.
After dropping the kids off, he comes back home instead of heading to work.
He finds me in the backyard, staring at the mountains surrounding our village.
He stands beside me, gently taking my hand but not speaking.
Finally I turn to him.
He takes my other hand as I gaze up through my lashes into his warm brown eyes.
I speak.
“I want to come work with you.”
He smiles.
Though a tear begins to course down his cheek.
And I can feel the tension in his muscles.
11/22 Poem: Expansive Praise
StandardIf gates of Hell we would raze
We must learn to weaponize praise
11/10 Limerick: Renewable Hearts
StandardToday I will share liberty
with those who wound my heart
11/9 Limericks: Im-Possible Faith
StandardWhen there’s a mountain to move
I feel God has something to prove
Is He really real
Or just what I feel
When I am in a good groove?
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