People called me timid
Because I go slowly
Moving step by step
According to the
Rhythms of nature
Because I believe in
The law of balance.
I do my best then relax
I don't try to force things
I always go easy on me
Zechariah 4:6, not by might,
Nor by power, but by thy spirit
Aggression births digression
Digression hinders progression.
Clarity yields results
Self hostility hinder prosperity
You're your own resolution
Endow yourself with worth
Not desperation for results
Be determined with the process
Time is the ultimate guide
Do it according to your pace.
Jesus painted a picture that I alone could see,
no more was I considered a Doubting Thomas.
Despite my many shortcomings He still loved me,
and had given to me hope, truth, and promise.
At times God has placed me on an uncertain path,
it’s during these times he is testing my faith.
Obedience is the key to avoiding God’s wrath,
And dispels any picture I have of Hell’s wraith
A Hinder Peek At Life
Miracle Man
6/15/2024
I couldn’t finish something,
that I didn’t first start.
Also, my tongue only uttered,
things found in my heart.
Any troubling thoughts,
I always quickly cast aside.
For God knows my heart,
and things from others I might hide.
My tongue is a launching pad,
that utters words that hurt.
So I think before speaking,
and those harsh words avert.
I’ve worked both hard, and smart,
my attitude, to be zappy.
Life awarded me no shortcuts,
in my quest to be happy.
Years ago seems like weeks ago, weeks feels like days
Of me seeing you in so many ways, such light that won’t fade
The past from me nor these sparkes say, how deeply your refinement affect me
Before you began to stray
Where has the sun gone when you're present? Have I of all been the one
you burden unto you? No matter how much the side of this heart keeps you inside, my mind won't heedfully let you hide
Though your touches, the feeling of your hands holding mine
How much I yearn it..our fingers mangled together like a vine,
Hugs so soft and embraced around your arms, wrapping me with your charms
Let us be together, we have yet to be one
As we shall swim in one’s heart, for love to be done
If only I could get cherish your image within me,
The true comfort I yearn for will occur for us to be.
Sometimes it seems bleak
Like walls built to hinder me
Please just let me try
Looking Hinder At 2021
(Searching Ourselves)
Written: by Miracle man
New Years Day 2022
Has your light shown brightly as God intended,
does your candle flicker or life been amended?
Whose life did you impact during this past year,
someone unknown or perhaps one you hold dear?
Has your witness been strong as earthly days waned,
Did you glorified Jesus or have you feigned?
Have you proclaimed God’s word as He has bidden,
or in your own heart have you kept it hidden?
Did you use your potential or did you try,
Or go your own way letting last year slip by?
In prayer for others, have you felt as one,
there's a Heaven to gain and a Hell to shun.
Looking Hinder
Written: by Miracle Man
10-30-2019
In nineteen sixty-eight,
I got an attitude adjusting.
Because at that time,
In God, I wasn’t trusting.
I traveled down roads,
clearly marked dead end.
With chug holes and speed bumps,
I seemed to always contend.
During these uncertain times,
when I wouldn’t commit.
There was always a locked gate,
that my key wouldn’t fit.
Then came a bad news day,
in which my future looked dire.
God used a match called Cancer,
to set my fields on fire.
Since my born again experience,
a new life I began to embrace.
It wasn’t through my works,
but through God’s saving grace.
Better safe than sorry, some claim it to be.
This gilded cage that can deceive.
Safe the woman held within, whom may never
spread her wings or sail in the wind.
The safety of this gilded cage hinders,
those scared or forced to stay.
A potential so great may never be known.
A life surrendered, for safety is unknown.
G-iving help to the needy
I-s a command of the Lord;
N-either hand will hinder
A-iding those who can't afford.
L-ending a hand to the skint
A-lters the serious situation;
B-ecause of the real love
R-elief is brought to emotion.
A-rms that are wide open
D-eny not the destitute;
O-ctober fifth early morn,
R-escue shall bear fruit.
C-are and concern for poor
A-re truly pleasant to see;
L-et both our hands assist,
D-oing what can cause ecstasy.
E-ach palm will support,
R-ight or left doesn't matter;
O-pen at any clime,
N-either hand will hinder.
Looking Hinder
(Is like whipping a dead horse)
Written: by Tom Wright
1/6/2016
A hinder look at life fields I’ve plowed,
Show some tilled acres to please a crowd.
The rows I planted weren’t always true,
And spaced within, some tares oft grew.
The harvest gain never appeared enough,
And oft my days were consumed by fluff.
Now, time has pilfered my youthful years,
And my opinions descend on deafened ears.
The path once chosen ends at my front door,
Hinder looks change nothing I’ve done before.
His heart is mine, and mine is his...
Twas winter when we gave this gift...
exchange of vows, of promise made...
beneath the sky of night and day...
our love it grows like ever rose...
no matter of the world to say...
so hinder, beast, before thee try to slay,
our love and fail, found mortal in your death, on this day...
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