Best Redemptive Poems
Born a sinner, baptize me in our love
Cleanse my soul with your sweet words
Each kiss a divine taste from above
In your arms I’ll find salvation
That is if I’m worth saving
I’m the antithesis of saintly
But I swear I’m a storm worth braving
Drench me in your holy waters
Show me I can be redeemed
The peace in your embrace
Brings more joy than I had dreamed
Economies of cooperative redemption,
like taking turns licking
melting ice cream cones,
favorably contrast to
stingier economies of personal private
sticky and prickly ownership
Including feeling entitled to purchase
whatever and whomever
I can afford to buy or rent
in cash up front
or through a commercial commodifying
installment plan product
with interest paid out
to a not personally invested corporate banker
So often straight white He
with legal right to demand full repayment
on my unfortunate overextended
ego-imbalance.
Economies of competitive secular development,
rather than sacred cooperative resonance,
sadly and madly contrast,
compete against,
empowering richer economies
of compassionate and resilient stewardship
not entitled to purchase sacred Earth
Nor to shop for bargain basement lands
and seas
and mindbody laborers
unpaid for cooperative working foundations
win/win playing
and designing co-creators
copassionately co-invested
in sacred polycultural joy relationships
in
and on
and now sadly under
our over-rated capital-infested futures
Gladly co-investing over
around
through
green ecologies of win/win wealth
Co-redemptive
permaculturally healthy
and robust enlightened financial systems
producing politically empowering
passionately resilient
enlightened mind
and empowering body
EarthTribe cooperative outcomes.
Redemptive love nourishes
Redemptive love heals
Redemptive love embellishes
Redemptive love empathy and sympathy feels
Under provocation, redemptive love forgives
Preferring to shield from harm
Redemptive love sublime peace gives
Redemptive love showers calm
When raging storms all around wreak untold havoc
Scattering to the wind established comfort zones
A boat of peace, Redemptive love doesn’t rock
Singing tunes and melodies in soothing tones
In homes, on buses, on planes, in ships
When hearts on fire cry out
For succor as distress tears apart friendships
Assailed at short notice by clouds of doubt
Which redemptive love puts to rest
Enjoining hearts to dig from deep within
From reserves that when activated cure the unrest
To leave a romance war front clean and free of pesky din.
A Redemptive Shroud
By: Miracle Man
1/30/2019
Hospital days elapsed slowly
As Heavens choir auditioned.
Today, I'm cognizant of the fact
That my time is being amortized,
And that God's redemptive love
Surrounds me like a pall.
Psalm. Lord, Keep Us!
I could sink, and languish sunken,
But Christ will not let me lie in broken days.
I am pulled up from the longest moments
And the trials of pain.
Selah. Breathe.
I declare. Since youth I have pronounced
That there is Nothing
That I will allow to separate me from God.
But attempts and trials came through five decades.
Selah. Breathe.
Holy One, I am thankful for the clutching angels
You send to flank the hillsides of difficulty and
Surround my bedside, trying to battle for my health,
Keeping me from ancient days of enslaving places.
Selah. Breathe.
. Holy! Lord, I rise in your redemptive promises,
And feel you in my soul, as in heaven. I assert
The power of your Kingship. Holy! Holy!
You lift me in my believing from encroaching despairs.
Selah. Breathe.
You reign in never-ending love — as you created —
And instill with all forgiveness, without demands,
Given freely. I kneel humbled, thankful, always
Awaiting your touches and callings. Filled. Alleluia!
Selah. Sing.
Beauty, ever-creating enduring beauty
We share so with all others, in your image.
We all rise. Holy! Holy! We call! Keep us,
Please, from hints of hopelessness, to glorify you.
Selah. Breathe. Sing. Dance.