All the ingredients
Aligned in order
Like building
Brick and mortar
Time after time
The recipe fails
Though I have in hand
Boards, hammer, nails
The foundation, laid
The walls in place
Power flowing
Still no space
Can't find the thing
That makes up a home
Tried every avenue
But I'm still alone
If not bread for meal
If not work for peace
If not talk for walk
Then where is there release
I see it now, finally clear
It is the condition of the connection
Lines laden with matter
Is the yeast of convection
...when you just want manna
Written by Trudy Schrader on 06-10-2026d
He is risen
By Michelle Morris
05/04/2026
He is risen
Love has won
Humanity is blessed
By God's only Son
Death has lost
Life's essence prevailed
We are saved by Him
Our sins erased
Thank you Jesus
Thank you God
Thank you Heaven
Thank you Father
We are grateful
To be saved
We are humbled
Sing His praise
Amen and hallelujah
God's grace is true
He loves us all
His Kingdom rules
For Christ is risen
Let us rejoice
For hope and faith
In our souls restored
© Michelle Morris, 2026
He's risen, Christ the king
Sitted in his throne
In heaven above
A king without throne
While on earth
For wherever he sits
Is his throne
Ruling over
Principalities and powers
Leading people to thy Father Almighty.
He's risen, Christ the king
The law breaker
He ascended above
And never came down
Breaking the law of gravity
That says; whatever goes up
Must surely come down.
He's risen, Christ the king
The greatest mental physician
The miracle worker
The liberator of generations
The illuminator of the dark
The master of the wonderous world
The map to thy Father God Almighty.
It’s been far too easy
for far too long.
Getting dark so early
innate instinct was able to rest.
Now with rising debauchery
teeth flashing in first light,
we have risen and we’re hungry.
Armed with a charisma so strong
prey comes to us sumptuous and needy.
As church bells ring
blooming Easter lilies rise
thoughts of you in spring
Brought low, to crush pride.
With it, the Devil.
O'er that entombed who now stands
A befuddled fool!
"Light! A living form
Therein! Saps my will.
Victor over death! What for
Myself did once rule!"
He Is Risen (A Linking Pin Sonnet in the Spence Style)
The stone was rolled—rolled far from death’s command,
Command could not contain the Son of light.
Light broke the tomb and touched the trembling land,
Land kissed His feet, awakened by His might.
Might bowed to love, for love could not stay dead,
Dead gave way when life began to rise.
Rise spread like fire where fear once dared to tread,
Tread turned to dance beneath the open skies.
Skies echoed loud the cry of grace anew,
Anew the earth beheld the Savior’s face.
Face of all hope, both ancient and yet true,
True as the cross, yet full of Heaven’s grace.
Grace walked again where sorrow once had been—
Been dead, but now He lives. He rose. Amen.
© Professor Dr. Joseph S. Spence Sr. All Rights Reserved (April 4, 2025).
Jesus has risen,
Rejoice, He told us He would,
Promised, just did it!
Rest
Today, celebrate this day. It is
Sunday but it is also
Easter. He is
Risen
despite diligence of virtue’s outreach
vice lurks adamant seeking a weak breach
sweet talking as it beckons with a grin
spirals down spinning slow into a sin
my path did once veer off the righteous cause
sank steady in quick sand of sinful jaws
my muddled mindset lured into abyss
basking in toxic air of faux pas bliss
upon hitting the grimy gloomy pit
at the very bottom I saw to it
I learnt to spurn the taste of tempting trait
the promised land of vice deceitful bait
He is risen,
He is lifted,
He is seated now on high,
And the glory round His head
Is there to stay.
He can never be defeated,
He can no more come to die,
He is risen,
Ever-living up on high!
“Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.” Romans 6:9
“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” - Martin Luther
With gentle hands, He molds the soul
Breathing light past timeless shadows
Singing psalms of grace who’ll console
Loved by One who died and arose
His kindness paints admirers glad
In words of belief the heart knows
Singing joy to those who are sad
Loved by One who died and arose
With a soft voice, He stills the storms
Bringing peace everywhere He goes
Changing fates for those He reforms
Loved by One who died and arose
His word assures us that we’re free
Because of love that grows and grows
Grace holds answers, the real key
Loved by One who died and arose
With praises lifted so He’ll hear
I’m so thankful I’m one He chose
Because of Him, I’ll never fear
Loved by One who died and arose
Another sun has risen
And those dreams forgiven
Past miss takes were illuminated
And in sleep they were illustrated
Shown pictures of pleasures and pain
Painted on my mind it all seemed so plain
At the moment when hope had left me
The sun is rising, and I finally see
It was not a dream, but a nightmare
You screaming I was never there
And maybe you were right,
another sun has risen
And I find the light in my eyes now
Yes, it was a dream but some how
The darkness still sticks like glue
When every night,
I think of you
HE IS RISEN from the dead
The ground has been laid
The fee has been paid
The Words has been said
The crown is on His head.
Now the doors are open for you and me
And He want us to see, it FREE
Yes indeed, now to believe
And we MUST receive
Take it, it's yours of course.
As He sits, He stands, and visit
From the Father right hand side
With His Holy Spirit
He placed within our hearts
He is apart, far, far above all else
He cares for you and me
HE IS RISEN, HE IS RISEN, HE IS RISEN
Can you believe, can you receive
Can you achieve, take it, it's yours of course.
“He Is Risen”
Miracle Man
3/31/2024
Jesus Christ is my source of power,
my only hope.
As I navigate daily, the world’s
sin cursed slope.
He bore our sins when on the cross,
he was hung.
But it didn’t end there, the last verse
was yet unsung.
So today, while many live life in a,
self made prison.
Many Christians celebrate the fact that,
“He Is Risen”
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