There is so much more to YouThe ways of mystery and hiddennessThe pain of testing like the threshing of the wheat.The crowning of each day with the setting sunThe movement of the windThe waves of seaAnd yet the greatest joy of my lifeWorthless as I so often amis this:You know me Every part of me…
Category: Poetry
The Love of God
His love is perfect. It never fails me. His love knows no limit, no barrier, no faltering weakness His love is for me. Wrapped in grace and tied together in time. Hidden, a treasure worth more than any riches on earth. Promised before my birth. It consumes me His love is every bit of what I…
Far Beyond Imagination
He’s far beyond imagination the heights and depths of all creation. By His word the villains fall He’s far above creation’s all His reign is perfect His words are true. This Lord of all I’m going through The Holy keeper of the key the mystery grand: Great One in Three The plans He made will…
Neediness
He is fathering me even in the days I cannot see Through every trial I face. He is there even in my disgrace. Every lonely, broken place. I am held together bone by bone and I do not walk alone. How my neediness has grown. In my aging days I have come to see how…
The Stuff that Warriors Dream
This warfare for the Hero’s bliss What thing is valued more that this? it supercedes the stoic state the frowning face of folly’s fate The quest for truth, “The Shining Next” the simplied in life complex For all I see in beauty’s good I dream of life lived as it should. For I am not…
Your Great Name
Before there was anything there was a Name. Before seas and land, before dust was formed into flesh Before Babel’s broken tower, before the ark was set in place Before there was anything Before prophet, priest or king…
What Could I Compare You to…
What could I compare you to my old friend? What could I know better than the memory of you. The one to see me through To hide the thought of you in a small brown paper bag concealed in my head the vision of the summer’s shine the smile so kind the hopes resigned You…
Some Say…
Some say God has a home for the strong ones only And yet he has a place for the lost and lonely Some say their popularity will send them to his throne And yet His heart’s pursuing those who walk alone Some say that God draws near to those who win acclaim But He’s drawn…
O Sun!
A Spoken Word Poem
I Never Wanted That
I came to God with fashion sense And clothes I bought at great expense I knew the drill All things down pat. God said, I never wanted that. I huddled with my life long friends.