WHAT ARE YOU EATING: WHAT'S EATING YOU?!

I Had A Little Taste Bud
Which Knew
That Little - With God In It -
Brought The Soul To The Land Of
Contentment!

My Lil' Taste Bud Was Quite Happy
Until The Day He Met Wide Eyes
And From Then
My Lil' Taste Bud Thought Contentment
Was Just Lack Of Enough
Being Self-Satisfying
Through No-Further-Prospect's
Eyes!

I Couldn't Convince Him!
He Would Not Be Pacified 
So
I Gave Him Free Reign
AND THEN
Woe!
Lord Have Mercy!
Lil' Taste Bud
Was Suffering From
Over-Indulgence
AND
Cast Resist Temptation
AND
Get More
Butterflies!

But, Then

One Fateful Day
I Met
Resist The Devil!
Take What You Want!
AND
Pay For It
AND
The Scales Fell From My Eyes
AND
I Knew - Without A Single Doubt -
That Obese Lil' Taste Bud Big
Was Going On "The Diet!"
No Matter How Much He Wailed 
AND
Cried!
He Was Getting A Fig Dried!

Take What You Want!
AND
Pay For It!
Indulged In The Pleasure Principle
AND
They Did Not Give A Flying Fat Farm
If You Ended Up In The Hospital
... Or Dead!

These Awful, Awful Creatures
Practiced Not What They Preached
For
Present Death Was Not Yet Their's To Hold
For
They Worked For That
Undead, Dying, Murdering
Lying, Infelicitous Creep Satan
Who Was
The God Of The Earth
But Was A
The God-Of-All Wannabe!
Only God - Not Appetite - Could Kill Them!

I Listened Well
To Their Contrived Stories
Of Feelings
AND
Tastes
- Vile And Glorious -
Until They  Lauded Chocolate Cockroach
(I Started Changing Skin Color)
BUT
When They Spoke Of
Eating Hu-Man
I Threw Up
AND
Looked Up
AND
Called Out Loudly
For The Holy Son Of Man!

Lord Jesus,
Please Save Me
From Outrageous
Raging Appetite!
Make My Appetite Tight
For
It Is Now Slack
And
Satan And His Minions
Are Riding Herd On
My Poor Breaking Back!
My Stomach Hurts!
Help Me Win This Unequal Fight!

Close Your Eyes!

Say Your Grace!

And

Back Away From The Plate!

Little With Contentment

Is Great Gain

But

Greed Is A Wide Open Gate!

Eat For Strength

And

Not For Drunkenness

And

By Grace

Know When Enough Is Enough

And

Stop Letting Your Eyes

Fill Your Plate

For

Your Bad Habits

Did Your Eyes Habituate!

I Understood
AND
I Did
From That Great Plate
Walk Away
For
It Was Filled To Overflowing
AND
Had Not A Fruit
A Vegetable
Not Even A Sweet Date!

I Thought Of Eve!
I Thought On The Garden Of Eden!
All The Fruit In The Garden Was Good For The Eating
BUT
The Fruit Of The Tree Of Good And Evil Was Not!

I Thought On The Tempter
Vile Creature He
Who Stills Tempts
AND
Torments
Trying Valiantly
To Create Many And More Eve's!

I Thought On The Savior!
I Thought On The Cross!
I Thought Of The Bruise On Christ's Heel
AND
I Rejoiced In The Knowledge That
Jesus Christ Crushed Satan's Covetous Head
AND
I Repented Of The Evil
AND
Praying
Went To
- For A First Time In A Long Time -
A Contented In Christ Soul's Bed!

We Are What We Eat!
We Become Like Where We Choose To Sleep!
We Fill A Half-Pound Stomach
With
Two Gallons Three Four
Full Of Food
Unnourishing
Unsavory
Indigestible
And Still Ask
When's The Next Meal?!
When Are We Going To Eat?!

Lil' Pidgeon's Got Wide Ear Holes!
So
Be The Pidgeon
AND
Hear What Your Real Stomach Says
AND
You Will Not
Over The Porcelain Goddess
Have To Preach A Sermon
AND
Then Have To Beseech The Living God
To Take Your Rebuke Away!

Some Live For Clothes!
Some Live For Food!
Some Live For Sex
Lies
AND
Unsavory Ties
AND
Some Live For Love Of Other
Than He Who For Us Died
On The Cross!
Check Your Self
So That You Don't
- By Self-Indulgence -
Suffer
The Eternal Loss!

What Seekest Thou?!

When We Seek

To Be More

Than What God Made Us To Be

We Become Less

Than We Should Be

Because Of

Over-Mastering

Hyper-Critical

Satan-Inspired

Gross Vanity!

Those Made

In The Image Of God

BUT

Tempted

To Be Remade

Under The Knife Of The Fraud

Are Left Destroyed

Not Knowing The Grace Of God

AND

Are Ritually

Gratuitously

Abused By Satan

Who Only Wanted To Defy The Lord

AND

Hurt One

Greatly Beloved Of Almighty God!

Let No Man

Priest Pope

Pastor Prince

President Prime Minister

Prophet, Rich Man Nor King

Nor Those With "-ist" Rankings

Encourage You

To See Your Life

As A Trivial Thing

Important

To Be Re-Designed

Possible

To Be By Man Refined

Only

To End Up On A Trap-Line

Waiting

Despairingly

Wondering

What Is To Become Of The Life

Lost

AND

No Longer Funny

BUT

Perhaps

In Hind Sight

To Be Repined!

Man Is God-Made

Not 

Hand-Carved!

Faith Is God-Given

Not 

Scent On A Neck-Scarf!

Hope Is A Gift

Of Heaven

Not To Be Confused

With Modern Pharisee-Leaven

AND

Is To Cherished

By The People Of God

Who

By Jesus Christ's Sacrificial Death

Are Covenanted

- By Request -

To Be Eternally Forgiven!

Little With Contentment

Is Great Gain!

Little Is Much

When God Is In It

Should By All People Be 

Gloriously Proclaimed!

If God

With Five Barley Loaves

AND

Two Small Fish

Can Make For 5,000 Men

Plus Women

AND

Children

A Filled-To-Satisfaction Dish

We Should Trust God

For His Personal Gift

To One AND To All

AND

Be Truly Satisfied

For The Gift Comes

From The Maker Of The Blue Ball

AND

The Known

Unknown Universe!

Don't You See That Neither

The Planets

Nor 

The Stars

Don't Out Of The Cosmos Fall?!

By God's Grace

I'm Sticking With Jesus Christ!

I'm Keeping What I've Got!

I Am Thankful For The Blessing!

Be It - To You - A Little

It Is

To Me

A Grand Lot!

*********

Look Up 

To

Jesus Christ 

And

Live!!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: The God Of Order + PRAYER: Lord, Feed Us ...!

Almighty God Is The God Of Order!
Nothing In His House Is Out Of Place!
Nothing In God's House Is Broken
AND
There's Nothing There 
That Needs To Be Replaced!

God's House Is Filled
With Splendiferous Mansions!
I've Never Seen One
BUT
I Accept The Word Of God
To Be The Living Truth!
I Believe That God Is My Father
AND
That My Father Always Speaks
God's Immutable Words Of Truth!

God's Word Says
I Have No Excuse For Sin
Because God's Law Is Written
On The Tablet Of My Heart!
The Same Heart That Used To Be Quite Rotten
BUT
Which
Through The Faith Of Christ Jesus
I've Asked The Holy Spirit
To Move Into
So That The Urge To Sin
Is Forced To Depart
AND
I Shall Henceforth
With Cause
Ever Sing God's Praises
Like A Very Contented Lark!

PRAYER:

Dear Father, Up In Heaven

You Who Hallow My Days

I Thank You

For My Call To Christian Duty

Proclaiming The Word Of The Gospel

AND

Not To Go Around The World

Playing

Mind Games!

Teach Me Thy Ways, Dear Father!

Help Me To Walk Faithfully In Them 

Each And Every Day!

Help Me To Stand Up

So That I

As A Child

May Be Counted

And

Help Me Not From Hard Tasks

To Run Away!

Help Me

To Pray Always

And

To Love

With Real Care

Doing The Work Of Him

Who Has Sent Me

And

Not Doing Things Half Way!

Father,

Please Take Obscuring Beams

From My Eyes

And

Wash And Bridle My Tongue

So That I Will Refuse To Utter

The Convenient Lie

Which Would Cause Me

To The World's Way

With Alacrity

To Comply!

Bless Your People

Dear Lord, I Pray

To Do Your Bidding

With A Ready Heart!

May They As Good Ambassadors

On Great And Small Missions

Deliver True Messages

Of Love, Grace And Faith!

Help Them To Speak Truly

Of The Blessing

Abiding

In Obedience To Your Will

And

Help Them To Hold Forth

With Compassion

The Need For Confession

And

Repentance

To All Hearers!

Father!

Help Them To Get Through Even To Our Youth!

Lift Us Up, Lord

To Lift You Up

And

Forgive Us Our Trespasses

When We Mess Up!

Help Us To Swiftly Confess And Repent

Of Our Sins

So That You Will Erase Them

From Your Remembrance Book!

Lord, Help Us Not To Commit

The Presumptuous Sin

And

To Never Grieve The Holy Spirit Away!

Help Us Not To Truth Deny

Nor To Run After

The Devil's Pie In The Sky!

Help Us To Be Contented

No Matter The Manner We Live

So That

We May Eat Grass

And Still Grow Big

With Lovely Hearts That Willingly Give!

Feed Us, Dear Father

The Blessed Bread Of Life

And

Lead Us So That We May Avoid

Imbibing From

The Waters Of Strife!

Guide Us To The Promised Land

Teaching Us All The Way

So That We Will Have Right To The City

And

May Blessedly

Walk Through

Your Pearly Gates

On The Appointed Date!

We Love You, Lord!

In Jesus Christ's Holy Name

Have Mercy, And Bless!

AMEN.

Real Weapons Of Mass Destruction + Prayer: Lord, Let Me Be Grateful

Whine
Manipulate
AND
Demand
Are The Real Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Used To Move 
Accessible Mama For A Nipple
AND
Laboring Dada For A Trifle
AND
The World For An Owing
BUT
The Users Of Such Weapons
Are Never Willing To Be Thankful For 
The Grace Of God
Over Themselves
AND
Over All The Living People!

This Son Blazingly Rages
AND
That Daughter Ragingly Despairs
For
The Love Of Instant Gratification
Is Causing Contentment
To Be Forcefully Displaced!

Greed For Gain
Makes The Never-Contented Children Of Men 
Drink
The Whine Of Discontent 
Which Is Not Of The Sort  Of Wine To Be Used
For The Stomach's Sake
BUT
Is The Bitter Dripping Of Acid
On What Should Have Been
An Impermeable Core Of Contentment
For
It Is Well Known That
Almighty God Provides
Whether We Are In Families
Or We Walk Lonely And Alone
AND
Have No Place To Call Home!

The Demanding Spirit
- Never Of The Cooperative Sort -
Thinks Itself The Cat's Meow
When It Opens Its Mouth
Uttering
The Attack Dog's Bark!
Fear Of Its Bark
- Ever The Herald Of Its Destructive Bite -
Gets For It Its Never-Need
Its Ever-Want
Because To Argue Against It
- Like Paper Against A Scissors -
Has Not Even Close To A Strong Point!

Manipulation
Is The Mead Of Wickedness
Used
Like A Balm Of Helpfulness
BUT
Covers A Careless
Coreless Conscience 
Made Accessible By
Ever-Lubricated Bat-Wing Doors
AND
Proving
Self Is A Whore!

In Consort
- Just Like Revelation's Triad Of Unclean Spirits Like Frogs -
Whine
Manipulate
AND
Demand
Those Undeniable Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Godless
Conscience-Less
Guiltless
AND
Beguiling
AND
Just Like Their Damned Originator
Pulse
Undulate
Titillate
AND
Obfuscate
To Decimate
Because
My-Want Trumps My-Need
Because
My-Greed Is The Speed
Through Which
Me
My-Self
AND
My-Eyes
Get A Feed!

Little
With Contentment
Provides Great Gain
For A Contented Soul!

A Lot
- With Licorishness For A License -
Never Knows That A Little
AND
Enough
Are More Blessed Than 
A Wasted Lot!

So ...

When Two 
Too Deep 
Pool Eyes 
Fill 
A Liter To A Stretched-Out One Gallon Slow-Belly
Know
Of A Sure Surety
No Matter What King Covetous
Unto Granny Eve Did Say
Death - Though Slow
Is Ever Coming
For
Eyes Always Have
AND 
In All Ways Possible
Will Make The Body
AND
The Belly 
Dearly Pay!

PRAYER:

Dear Lord,

Let Me Be Grateful

For What I Have In My Hand

For There Are Those

Who Have Not

And

Would Greatly Appreciate

Receiving Much Of The Good

That I Wickedly Discard

Into My Trashcan!

Let Not My Stomach

Prepare A Feast For Me

Which

At The Eating

Renders My Soul Captive

Unto Him Who Dearly Hates Me!

Let My Eyes Be Focused

On The Lord Jesus Christ

Knowing That

In The Fullness Of Time

I Will Enjoy A Perpetual Feasting

In The Heavenly Paradise!

Lord, Remember Me

And

Help Me To Always Remember

And

Love

And

Honor

And

Trust

And

Obey You!

Amen.

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: Contentment

Greed for Money Makes Men Mad

Madness for Money Makes Men Mean

Money Meanest Makes Men Murderous

Enough to Pick a Cold Corpse Clean!

The Bible States it Well that

Love for Money is The Root

Of All Evil that Can Be Seen!

So Use Money for Its Intended Purpose

And Men Will Not be Ravening Locusts!

Little With Contentment is Our Goal

Those of Us who Call Jesus Christ, Lord!

Our Little with God's Contentment 

Makes Bitter Herbs Preferable

To Great Strife with Much Meat!

Please Learn This and Daily Repeat!

My Eye Lead Me!

I once let My Eye Lead Me
Down The Primrose Garden Path
And when The Journey was all over
I had purchased for Myself a Golden Calf!

My Eye had an annoying habit
Of buying what did My stomach overfill
And it always left me feeling
Like I was a trussed-up chicken waiting 
For the Butcher to come and kill!

You would think that I would acquire some Commonsense
But you would be wrong on that very score
I again let My Eye make another purchase
And Hell came knocking trying to break down My front door!

Lord, if ever I needed You

Today would be The Day

Please Help Me for

Devil Dog and You Ate Bought It

Are playing "We Got A Covetous Pup To Make Pay!"

Lord, I know that I have been Seriously Lawless

But I finally have had My Fill

Lust of This Flesh

Lust of My Eye

Pride of This Life

Have been holding sway

But if You would condescend to help a Foolish One

I promise to live My Life evermore as You Command

Help Me, for I'm about to be undone!

"Child, rescuing You is No Condescension

When Lifting You up is My Sacrificial Goal

Repent, turn away, walk on in My Light

And soon You Will Walk on The Eternal Shore.

Turn, turn, away from The Dead Things

The Dying Joys of The World

Come to Me - I AM Your Savior

With Me Life Ends in Great Reward!"

From That Day until This Day 
On which we are conversing
I have put My Shoulder to the Gospel Plow
And by God's Grace and a Living Faith
I'm Walking Straight and Behaving like 
Chubby, The Contented Cow!

This World No Longer Fills These Eyes of Mine!