Father hurl me from your bow
From heaven unto earth below
Like Jesus, the Son whom You love
Was sent down from heaven above
Tag Archives: suffering
1/31 Limericks: Signifi-Cant
StandardThe reason I feel insignificant
Is hard problems feel like a sign I can’t
Do what I must
To win back the trust
Of those of whose hearts I’m a supplicant
1/28 RSVP: Heaven Manifest
StandardWhat 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!
1/7 Limerick: Favor Bears
StandardThe favor of God is a gift
Whose purpose we must learn to sift
Not freedom from pain
But fruit that we gain
Reveals how the Lord healed our rift
“A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.”
John 16:21
12/17 Poem: A Measure of Faith
StandardThe measure of Faith
Is how we respond
When circumstances
Tempt us to despond
12/15 Poem: Right Suffering
StandardThe real source of pain
It now seems to me
Is where I conflict
With reality
12/8 Limerick: Content Farming
StandardThe secret to being content
Is living in light of advent
Both better and worse
Help reverse the curse
By making room for His descent
11/23 Poem: Order-nary Pain
StandardHappy Fibonacci Day!
First-order pain helps us learn
To keep away from flames that burn
Our bodies we need to preserve
So that on earth we may serve
Mrs. Jesus #2/7: Two’s Day Out
StandardContinued from Blew Monday
Awakening
“Good morning, sleepyhead!”
I wake up and look at Jesus, startled.
Me: What time is it? Did I sleep in?
He chuckles.
Jesus: Don’t worry about it. I turned off your alarm and got the kids ready for school myself. Your mom will pick them up.
M. Why? Are we going somewhere?
His face suddenly turns sober.
J. Yes. You remember I promised I’d help you understand why I can’t stay here with you all the time?
I nod silently, torn between excitement and dread.
J. Well, today is bring your wife to work day!
I make appreciative noises, like I’m happy about this. Yet I can’t help but notice that His smile doesn’t reach His eyes.
Continue reading10/25 Limericks: I-flation
StandardAn inflated ego’s not bad
When there’s a world to be had
Denying the norm
Is how we form
A Selfness that makes our hearts glad
10/22 Limericks: Woke to Voke
StandardWhen suffering under harsh yoke
It’s not enough just to be “woke”
The pain that we feel
Though surely it’s real
Has to do more than provoke
10/19 Limericks: Friend Job
StandardJob, you know I’m your friend
But somehow this silence must end
It just hurts my brain
To see you in pain
And thus to your soul I would tend
10/11 Limerick: Trial Trail
StandardJames 1:2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,
Jesus calls us onto His trial trail
To grow a faith that will not fail
For when we are tested
Our weakness is bested
By joy from the sorrow of His grail
Limerick: Come, Passion
StandardIn a world where sufferings out of fashion
Christ calls us to live with compassion
As we train our brain
To not flee from pain
His Kingdom, to our world, will crash in
Limerick: God’s Dealay
StandardWhen God delays dealing with sin
We’re forced to face problems within
His plan for the world
Is slowly unfurled
As dying like Christ we begin
Poem: Goodly Evil
StandardAs mortals we dare not believe
Truths that our eyes can’t perceive
How God in His goodness may lead
Us faster through lands where we bleed
Limerick: Rock Bottom Favor
StandardFor Joseph
We all need to Rock “Bottom Favor”
Though that means we must drink bitter flavor
When we find joy in pain
Our cross becomes gain
And we bear fruit the world will long savor
Limerick: Under-Handed
StandardGod sometimes seems under-handed
Our suffering, as if He has planned it
It feels like our pain
Is just for His gain
And we must give what He demanded
Limerick: ReNewAll
StandardIf we want Christ to ReNewAll
We must have grace to go through all
The cross and the grave
More sinners to save
Our share in heaven’s accrual
Sex 207. Loving Life
StandardConcluding the story from Sex 206. Loving Father
Prologue
I am trapped in the Bar of Hell.
Watching my Father guzzle
All the shame, suffering and sin
Of the whole world
With such agonizing joy
That my soul yearns
To join Him
The Cup
I grab my tiny Cup, full of ruby liquid, and slam it down my throat.
I have tasted all the pleasures of this world, from the sublime heights of philosophy to the sordid depths of passion.
All start out sweet as honey to my mouth, but end up bitter as gall in my stomach.
This… is the reverse.
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