Devotion Carpe Diem Poems

Go at
                      Your dreams...

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To the measure you seek, you find
And reaping comes after you sow.
From the depths of humility known,
Then to exaltation flown.

To the measure you give, it...

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Willfulness releases and often are dismissed from one's mind, step aside from trials and
tribulations. One's survival  taking ones time, rushing not to get older,...

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The homily

At the church entrance
Beggars line up when the sermon is over
The parishioners in the warm feeling of faith
Give beggars coins.
God’s work be done. 
The...

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The song of resignation 

Memories are not crystal clear, a broken mirror on which the sun shines
The residue of the imagined, what ensued or will...

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No water

The land is thirsty in Portugal.
Dams are like wadies 
despair and dust 
not yet noticed by city dwellers.
Flush their loos with enthusiasm
buy potable water
At...

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People came from near and far to say goodbye for now.
People came to see that great man laid at rest.
People came to take pictures and...

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Sweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

after William Dunbar

Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest...

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Called to serve the Lord*

Take first faith-step now…obey

…Leave comfort zone; plunge.

*Colossians 3:24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance:...

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Face now* multi-tasks

... well-fulfilled...

Flee to God for strength.

*John 19:28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled…

July...

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Now* is the time to assert God’s truth-verity
Affirming the Lord’s love of mercy’s certainty
Especially His salvation along eternal life’s security.

Now is the time to avoid...

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Now is the time to plan…
…with the vision to be 
better than the past.

Now is the moment to prepare…
…since lack of it can cause
missed opportunities...

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Starting in well-doing* now
Quit not…
Be motivated to toil with joyous zeal
Along love for labour, accomplish today!

Never linger
Wasting no time
Achieving with Christ’s might
Desirous along utmost best!

Subduing...

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Let your light shine*; seek God’s presence of love’s insistence
Though weary, weak, faltering when pressures are intense…
While laboring with utmost grace-persistence
Depend on His empowering omnipotence!

Let...

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Today* is the day of salvation!
Be not faithless; 
Believe on the Saviour Jesus Christ
The Way, the Truth and the Life**
Toward eternal redemption’s security.

Today is service-engagement...

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