Here you will find the Poetry and Prayers that I write, and access links to the traditional Gospel songs and Hymns of the Christian Faith of which I am a member.
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I Don't Care Who Is Looking At Me "Funny" When I Say Prayers In Public Before I Eat! I Don't Care Who Knows That I Say Prayers To The Almighty God - In Jesus Christ's Name - To Watch Over Me When I Sleep! I Don't Care Who Thinks It Is Weird For Me To Say:
"Thank God for Grace and Glory!"
AND ... I Don't Care Who Thinks I'm Strange For Not Believing That God Is A Made-up Story! I Believe In: Almighty God - The Father Jesus Christ, Creator, Redeemer, Savior, Friend: God - The Son AND The Comforter: God - The Holy Spirit, Too! I Believe That Holy Angels Do Surround AND Protect True Believers from The Devil And His Evil Crew! I Believe That It Is A Fool Who Plays With The Devil Dipping And Touching Hands in The Devil's Pot of Deceitful Stew AND I Decided That Heaven Is My Goal AND I Know That I Will Survive And Thrive By God's Grace AND I Know - For Sure - That I Can Do Without Satan's Fool's Gold! I Shall Continue To Testify About What Good God Has Done For Me! I Will Tell It To The World That Being A Christian Does Not Mean That I Can't Laugh AND Be Happy AND That Laughter Is Not Akin To Having Killed The Fatted Calf! I Will Tell The World That In Jesus Christ My Failures Are Not Fatal AND My Mistakes Are Not Considered An Infestation of Rabid Lice So That I Must Be Put Down! I Can - And Do - Tell My Jesus Anything And Everything AND I Know That He Will Direct Me AND Mark The Straight And Narrow Path That I Must Walk Along! And ... I Don't Have To Worry And Fret AND Threaten To Commit Suicide ... "Just Because ...!" A Friend Is Doing Better Than I Am WHEN ... In Jesus Christ's Blessed And Holy Name The Almighty God Provides For Me! NO! NO! NO! No Closet Christianity For Me! I Am Out In The Open For All The World To See That Jesus Christ IS The Lover Of My Soul AND Come Hell Or High-water Jesus Christ Is Carrying This Soul AND His Eternal City Is Mine AND I Shall Live Forever - After Having Endured To The End - At The Fullness Of Time FOR The King Of Love Is My Shepherd AND His Love For Me Is Divine AND Not Love On The Line!
I Don't Know You But I Could If You Would ....! I Don't Like You But I Could If You Would ....! I Don't See You But I Could If You Would ....! I Don't Care About You But I Could If You Would ....! I Would Love You But I Don't ...! I Would Need You But I Can't ...! I Would Trust You But I Don't ...! I Love You But I Don't ...! I Love You But I Can't ...! I Love You But I Shan't ...! I Need You But I Can't ...! I Treasure You But Money ...!
And So The "STORY" Goes .... I Would If I Could! I Should But I Can't! I Live By A Lamp But Oil Futures Are Scant! An Excuse? Of Course! Finance Is King! Anything Less Is Heart ... Breaking! UNTIL ... THAT GREAT DAY I Met The Man Who Loves Me - LOTS! He Knew Me! He Drew Me! By Way Of Language He's a Polyglot! We Met! Our Hands Touched! He Gave Me His All! He Asked Of Me Naught! His Heart Was All Mine! His Love? Oh, So Divine! Before We Consecrated Love He Showed Me Hope On The Wings Of The Dove And My Heart Did Yearn For My Love Of Him To Learn That Sacrificial Love IS Love Returned Returned Though Oft' Cruelly,Cruelly Spurned!
In The Land Of The StoryYou Tell Your Side and I Tell My Side! BUT ... Who Will Tell The Truth? In The Land Of The StoryYou Will Make You Look Good! I Will Make Me Look Good! BUT ... Who Will Make Truth Look Good? In The Land Of The Story You Will Lie a Little! You Will Say I Lie A Lot! I Will Lie a Little! I Will Say You Lie A Lot! BUT ... Who Will Say Truth Lies Not? My Story = The Mystery! History = Winner's Tale! Your Story = Drama Unfolds!
In The Quiet Moment I Mediate I Pray I Commune With My Heavenly Father Be It Morning Night or Noon! I Think On The Heavenly Father AND I Say My Prayers To The God Of Love! We Talk - Back and Forth! It is Quite Normal AND We Listen to Each Other Out of Pure Love! My Love For My Lord Is Unequal! It Can Never Equal Itself To His Love For Me For My God and His Love Are Infinite AND My Love Is Only As Big As Mortal Little Dust Like Me! When I Think Of God and His Provision Of Sight Sound Taste Touch and Smell I Think of His Amazing Energy And It Is Definitely Not Like That Found In A Man-made Battery Cell! When I Pray To My God I Make My Father Acquainted With My Hope, Wants, Needs, and Dreams My Sorrows, Cares and Fears! He Knows Them Already - That is NOT The Issue! I Believe That He Cares And Will My Burdens Bear And Me With Blessings Fill As He My Seeking Heart Prepares and Thrills! When I Commune with My Master It Is Because I Expect Something To Receive! I Always Go To Him With My Head, Heart and Hand Open Fully Expecting to Be Fed! I Believe I Believe As An Innocent Babe Does That My Father God Will For My Benefit Perform! I - as yet - Do Not Know How He Performs His Great Feats BUT I Know That With Him Near I Will Always Be Safe Saved Standing Firm On Rooted Grounded Narrow Path Straight-Walking Feet! I Go To God Believing Accepting Trusting Knowing That I know That He Is Faithful! Knowing That I Know That He Is Real! Knowing That I Know - Come Hell Or High Water That My God Will Not Permit My Hope in His Word By A Lie from His Lips To Be Cast Down or Even Derailed! My God IS God! My God is Truth! My God is Light! My God is Right In Sunlight In Nightlight In Heaven On Earth Under Earth and In The Sea! The Heavens Declare It! My Hearts Accepts It! God's Spirit Confirms It! Jesus Christ Stands For It AND THAT Is Good Enough ... For Me!
I Like God! He is My Friend On Whom I Can Depend! I Like God! Seriously, I Really Like God! "Strange Expression, don't you Think!?!" No! No! Not at all! Think about this: The people with whom I choose to associate are the people I really like, respect, trust, find companiable, comforting, helpful, comfortable, resourceful, loving, funny, smart, and trustworthy. We are the same things to each other, and we love each other enough to like being in each other's company ... all the time! And ... we are all-around good people, with character and faith in The True and Living God. Look at God:
Faithful
Merciful
Helpful
Caring
Gracious
Resourceful
Creative
Artistic
Comforting
Comfortable
Trustworthy
Loving
Just
Companiable
Wise, and
Funny and
Serious and
True, and
Truthful
God Knows The Best Ways for Me to Walk, all The Best Places where I May Lay My Head, Sets The Best Table, Guards Against Enemy Attacks, and knows where The Living Waters Flow, AND He Gives Me Life! Best of All, because He does not Pry, and Waits to be called, and is Always Available on Demand, I share things with Him that I will not Share with Another Living Soul, knowing full well that He will not "Desert Me" by Reason of my Weaknesses, and Bad Temper, and Lying, and Cheating and Stealing and Daily Fornications and Adulteries! God Listens and He Counsels, but there have been times when He put His foot down and Chastised Me, and stated clearly: "Don't Do That! That is Not The Way for You!" He doesn't leave Me to "Figure it out!" for Myself! He Teaches Me The Right Way, and Helps Me to Walk in it! We have had a few dust-ups over the years, though and, believe me, things were pretty bad for a while! You see, I wanted to do something that God - Repeatedly - told me not to do, and I got on my high horse, and called Him a few unflattering descriptives and went on my merry way and did my own thing and paid ... BIG TIME!! I was totally ticked off at God after that Debacle! "How could You let me do that?! How could You let that happen to me?! Why didn't You stop Me?! I thought you were My Friend!" Want to hear what He said: "Beloved, you have Free Will and Free Choice! I will Never Force you to do The Right Thing! I will Chastise, and Plead, and Love, and Call you BUT I will let you Decide AND whatever The Decision is that you make, I will be here Waiting for you when you call!" His Answer totally took The Wind out of my Overblown Sails! One day, I told Him that I gave Him Permission to yank Me back when He sees me going Astray and, do you know what? He has taken that request to His Heart, and He sticks closer to me that even my brother can! It is Amazing! On another occasion, we were Talking, and I Wondered how He could be Satisfied to be Always Giving Me Blessings for which I could Never Repay Him?! Do you know what He said! "I Love You! It is Enough that you Desire to be with Me, and are always Talking Intimately with Me, willing to Follow My Lead, and that you Trust Me, and are Walking - Faithfully ... Steadfastly - on The Highway To Heaven, as you Learn and Grow from Following The Way as Set Forth in My Family Book of Gifts that I Gave to you!" My Heart Leaped!
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God makes me Laugh - often!
God makes me Think - all the time!
In God, My Life is Complete
By God, I Stand Firmly on My Feet
With God, Bitter Tastes Sweet
For God Has Made Heaven The Prize
To Those who Faithfully Compete!
I Like God
He Is Wise
Uses No Lies
Plans No Way-out Strategies
Wisdom Is His Eye
I Can On Him Rely
By His Grace I Can Satan Defy
With His Mercy
In The Great By and By
I Will Live Forever
Winging To Worlds
Which Imaginings Can't Prophesy!
I Like God!
This Is Not About Obligatory Love
This Is Friendship ... And Beyond
He Called Himself My Friend - Unto The End
And Sought Me Out When I Faced Harm
He Looks Out For Me - Day and Night
He Fights For Me - Dissolving The Blight
He Died For Me - To Give Me His Light
He Carries Me - When Cares Benight
He Comforts Me - When I Take A Fright
He Watches Me - I Am Ever In His Eyesight
And Because Of His Sacrificial Love
I Shall Gain The Winner's Wreath At The End Of The Fight!
On The Day that I Finally Acknowledged That I Needed Jesus' Love Was The Moment that I Knew that He could be Depended Upon for Eternal Love. I did not have to be Official I did not have to Raise a Flag All I did was to Declare:
"Lord, You are My Shepherd!"
And Ask
"Will You Bless Me, My Lord King?"
The King of Love - Thou Prince of Peace Oh, Holy One Who Brings Relief Accept this Day My Humble Pray And Lead Me on to The Home You Have Prepared:
ToBe SaVed is Ever Always Surrounded By Sinners Sinning and Sin, and His Brethren NeeDing SaVing MayBe SaVed HowToBe SaVed and BeYe SaVed Have been His Heart Troubling! He Knows John 3 and Verse 16 He Knows 1 John 1 and Verse 9 He Knows he wants to be Christian But Sin - and Sinning - is Brightening his Searching Seeking Eyes! Sinning to ToBe SaVed Seems So Exciting! Do Whatever Whenever However you Want! The Thrills often Heard Excite More Than God's Word And ToBe SaVed is Iffy, Itching to Join Follow-Fashion's Herd! Follow-Fashion is The Great Deceiver! Truth to him is Not About Eternal Life! LIFE to him is about Fun, Fads, Falls, Foolishness and Feelings Especially when Delivered by The Cruel-Friend Knife! One Day, LIFE Itself gave ToBe SaVed The Ultimatum: "Choose You This Day Whom You Will Serve!" Poor SaVed ToBe, was in a Pickle ... a Quandary For Follow-Fashion was Great Fun and Fabulosity! ToBe SaVed Sat Down Weighed The Pros and Weighed The Cons And Asked The Great Question of His Own Soul: "When The Fun is All Done, Where Will I Rest When I Lie Down?" And His Spirit gave Him This Simple Dressing Down:
"Life Without Christ is a Satanic Device
To Draw You Away from Your Soul's Savior
That Life is Full of Thrills and Spills
Hangovers and Chills
And Friends that Last as Long as Your Last Dollar Bill!
With Jesus Christ as Your True Companion
Your Life will be Hard is Many Ways
You Will be Hated and Cursed
You Will Bruises Nurse
But Your Ride in The Hearst
Will Not Be The Curse!
Jesus Christ Saves!
He Died for You!
Don't be a Sin Slave!
Pick up His Light Burden and Walk
Sedately ... He is By Your Side
The Spirit of His Comfort Will Be Inside
And ...
At The Last ...
Just Like Jesus ...
You Will Be Raise From The Dead ... GLORIFIED!"
ToBe SaVed is today I-Am SaVed! He Knows When he Dies Angels will Mark his Cold Grave And he Walks and Talks As The True Christian Should His Walk and His Talk Match He does not Talk as Spilled Gas And Walk as Lit Match But he Blesses And Teaches And The Seeking Soul He Prays for and Edifies!
