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Spiritual Strategies For Trump Times

We're in the midst of trump times and 
We need to understand 
That that individual in the White House 
Is not a righteous man 
He's all about division, discord 
And disarray 
And when a domestic terror act occurred 
He did not have much to say 
White nationalists staged a rally to keep 
A confederate statue in place 
No regard and no respect for any other 
Ethnicity nor any other race 
A group of anti- protesters were in a
Peaceful march as well 
Until a nationalist in a car mowed them down 
Causing utter hell

We're in trump times the country's 
Moral barometer has done a reverse 
We're in trump times trust and believe
It can only get worse
Threats against the North Koreans 
Who are launching potential weapons to kill
Instead of using diplomacy 
Trump wants to assert his will
On the precipice of what could 
Possibly become world war 3 
What should we do?
What are our spiritual strategies? 

One, we would do well to accept
The invitation from Christ our Savior
To worship, witness and walk
With a Christlike behavior
We need God to remind us
That we are not alone
And never ever forget that its He
Who sits on the throne 
God is in charge He's still in control
Hopefully He'll work on presidents
Trump and Kim Jong Un souls 

Two, we need gather together in 
Remembrance of He
Jesus the Christ who died
To give us the victory
To eat of the bread and drink of the wine
Remnants of His body and blood 
To examine our own hearts
And acknowledge His unconditional love
To stay in touch with reality 
To remember our past and our pain
Of the slavery that is still on American
A badge of shame

Let us never forget 
what has come to pass
Let us never forget Jesus 
and the love for us He has
For when we remember we reestablish 
All truths and how they came to be
And no tweet will erase nor change
The true reality 

Trump talks about fake news
But free press will prevail 
As only free press stops a nation from 
Becoming a dictatorship from hell

Spiritual strategies for trump times 
We need to realize 
We need to stay united
And keep our eyes on the prize 
Let us never forget the blood 
That was shredded and the sacrifice
Let us never forget that for our sins
Jesus gave His life
Let us look past skin color
And ignore race 
Let us remember God 
Who gave us His infinite 
Mercy and Grace


What Is the Altetnative

Life as we know it makes no sense if we have no choice 
So what is the alternative and do we have a voice ?

The world is spinning out of control with violence and death all around 
And the Republican presidential candidate is a racist media hogging clown
Everything is off kilter and while I sit and contemplate 
What is my alternative and what will be my fate?
How do I sing songs of joy when chaos is on the rise? 
How do I survive a Babylonian society and keep my eyes on God's prize? 
In the midst of perversity and immoral behavior 
My only alternative is to stay  connected to Jesus my Savior 

When I see a white man kill nine African Americans in a church
And after arrested given a bullet proof vest
Yet when an ex-military black man kills five white cops 
He's blown up I feel such unrest 
Over the injustice and the inequality that is occurring every day 
Over 123 black men killed this year what more is there to say 

What is the alternative?  What is it that we need to do? 
What is the alternative? As a nation we need to seek truth 
I don't condone Mr. Johnson's behavior 
but I understand where he's coming from 
Too many young unarmed black brothers 
Killed by white police guns

So what is the alternative? 
What as a nation do we realize? 
That racism is alive and well and killing blacks is on the rise 
What is the alternative? 
How do we bring about true change? 
It's time for white Americans to stop acting like we're deranged 
We are Americans too my people have been here over 400 years 
Yes we were once slaves but let me make this clear
We are no longer your property 
We are no longer your chattel 
Stop killing and slaughtering my people 
Like they're mindless cattle 

So what is the alternative? 
It's time we all develop a true relationship with God 
And hopefully be infused with a Christlike love
And true compassion in out hearts 

THAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE

The Destructive Disease of the Soul

No amount of thought 
Could negate 
Suffering in the mind 
Of Francis Phoenix. 
                                                              
That much he had always believed, 
That humanity is a sad, lost 
And suffering race.  
Sometimes he felt it so strongly 
That the worship of a Saviour seemed 
To be the only sane act on earth, 
And then it passed.
 
It was not increasing callousness, 
But an increase in the number of moments 
He felt quite intoxicated with compassion 
That had soured Frank's outlook.
                                                              
During those moments, he wept 
For all those he'd ever been cruel to. 
He could be so hard on people, 
So terribly hard.
To whom could he ask forgiveness? 
                                                              
It was his sensitivity 
That bred those moments of Christlike love, 
When he cared so little for himself, 
For his body, even for his soul
When it was the soul of his father, 
The soul of his mother, 
The souls of his friends and relatives 
And everyone he'd ever known 
That he cared about. 
                                                              
That was truth, that was reality, 
That was the purpose of all human life, 
That love, that benevolence, 
That absolute forgiveness.  
Otherworldly love is painful, 
But it is the only true freedom known to Man. 
Too much thought eventually produces the conviction 
That nothing is worth doing. 
Thought is a destructive disease of the soul.

(Both "The Destructive Disease of the Soul" and "The Compensatory Man Par Excellence" possess as their starting points a novel written at an estimate around 1987. I believe most of it was destroyed some six years thereafter.)

Premium Member Zealots and Evangelists

Within sleepy sheep folds
of retributive divine justice
postponed til kingdom comes
and diva queens go 
to hell where we sinfully belong
like all unfaithful *******
refusing to shuck and jive
custody of 20/20 eyes
and to disconnect bicameral ears,

Discovering within these quiet unexamined folds
remains an uncreative fundamental tension
between evangelical healing justice
and bad faith zealotry,

Between good news of God's universal EarthLove
and dark colonizing missionary zeal
to overpower alien health and happiness,
compassion and gratitude for global regenerate nature
spiritual nondualism.

Zealotry of StraightWhiteMale scriptural reconstructions
in Western roots fed by colonization memories
of overpowering violence.

Evangelical multicultural good news
roots are living watered
by creolizing necessities,
communal simplicity,
non-elite sufficiency
found in multiculturing non-violent domestic herstories,
communication circles ecofeminist
compassioned philosophies
of ecologically green resonant theology,
restorative win/win EarthJustice,
permacultural health-system therapies.

Zealotry is born of punishing bad faith
in colonizing memories.

Evangelism is born of healing good faith
in polycultural creolizing visions.

Zealotry is extrinsically LeftBrain dominant
and anti-Christlike.

Evangelism is intrinsically RightBrain prominent
and EarthCreation healing.

Which version of Christianity
do you find supported
by Republican StraightWhiteMale TrumpCards?

How might this compare unfavorably
to GreenDemocrat ecofeminist compassion therapy
if you are more of a Gospel Health-Crusading Evangelical?

Premium Member By the Grace of God

On the train that I rode today, 
into town I was on my way. 
You never know what you will see, 
out the window were clouds of gray. 




An old man came on with one knee, 
he hobbled over ~ sat by me. 
By God's loving wonderful grace, 
I softly said a pray to thee. 




An old lady with a sad face, 
filled with hurt and pain sat in place. 
All her pearly white teeth were gone, 
leaving just a wide open space. 





She could have been up near the dawn, 
she really slept on the lawn. 
I wondered what her life was like, 
so tired she gave a big ~ big yawn. 




Next a kid with a minibike, 
the kid looked like a hunger strike. 
God's loving grace has been on me, 
so that my life could be christlike. 

 

 

Date Written:5/11/2022 

2 place 

Rubaiyat Contest Contest Judged: 6/13/2022  
Sponsored by: Sotto Poet 

~~Note~~A true story from a train ride on 5/1/2022. 
Any of these could have been me. 
By God's loving wonderful grace,  
I was able to watch and then pray.
Form: Rubaiyat


Premium Member The Singing Bauble

At first I wasn't sure what I was listening to, if anything at all 
 but as I moved a little closer, sure enough she was singing 
 The Christmas branches hummed and the tinsel drummed 
 and the figurines beneath the tree gave sighs of sweet relief 

At first I wasn't keen on a bauble that could sing a Xmas song 
 I had failed to read the fine print ,yes the box had clearly stated 
 "no batteries required" so I figured she was just a bauble 
 like the other ones I tucked away each year, oh but she was not 

Every time the spruce was lit she'd light up like a Christmas tree 
 and with her acapella voice she'd sing me my favorite song; 
 "Oh Silent Night" was pure delight to hear with Christlike cheer 
 each time my bauble-een sang up, it was a living Holy dream 

At first I wasn't sure I wanted a bauble that was so socialistic 
 but as she sang my worries disappeared as I turned idealistic 
 she brought me such joy and taught me how to be altruistic 
 in a world so mundane she was an exceptional bauble- Mystic 

So it was no surprise that at the end of the season I kept her 
 safe in my trinket box, where the rest of the year waited 
 for the uplift of Christmas again. He is my Lord and my Savior 
 he made the music and bauble, made me creative and free 

Today I am glad I own such a bauble, I listen without squabble 
 and thank God for creating her and I thank God that she's able. 

November 6, 2018
Form: Narrative

Premium Member A Real Bodhisattva

A Real Bodhisattva

A bodhisattva is the Buddhist equivalent
Of a warrior for Christ, who is well on their way
To being Christlike themselves.
Of course there are many degrees of bodhisattva
From those who only have the wish to be
To those who actually are.
Literally millions are examples of the former.
The Dalai Lama is a good example of the latter.
Real bodhisattvas are rare.
Their hallmark is infinite love and compassion
For all beings
Combined with deep insight
Into the true nature of reality.
This week the world lost a real bodhisattva
In the form of a young American patriot,
Who at just 31 years old
Had successfully reached a whole generation
Galvanizing many young people
To critically look within  
And embrace traditional American values
Of family, honesty, integrity, openness,
Love, tolerance, inclusivity, and faith.
And for this he was martyred.
The world is a better place 
For having known Charlie Kirk.
But it is certainly not a better place without him
Unless we take up his mantle
Take the torch, and shield and sword
And become real warriors of Christ
Bodhisattvas in the army of truth.

(9/12/25)
Form: Elegy

Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR GIVING US HOPE TOWARD HIM

November 21 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Acts 24-26

Key Verse – Acts 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR GIVING US HOPE TOWARD HIM

Praise be to God for giving us hope toward Him since we are: 
Cleansed for conversion’s call
Created toward Christlike character
Cared for along compassion’s calmness
Committed through consecration’s cord
Contented by His counsel’s commendation

Acts 25:3 Praise be to the Lord for 
granting us desired favour for:
Glow with His gentleness
Growth by His governance
Guidance along His greatness
Gladness through His graciousness
Generosity midst His goodness in our giving

Acts 26:18 Praise be to the Saviour for 
opening our eyes with heavenly vision that is: 
Purposeful against perversion
Powerful above pride’s potency
Productive midst poverty’s prevalence
Persuasive around precept’s protection
Prudent along His perfect and proven plan. Amen!

November 21, 2024

Lord, Let Me Be Your Instrument

I once was a sinner;
But now I'm saved by Your grace
And my desire is to please You-
For in You lies my total strength.
Lord, let me be Your Instrument.

I know I have fallen short of Your glory
Through thoughts, words.and deeds
But cleanse me daily, deep within
From every unrighteous  act of sin
And with Your Spirit
Lead me Lord-
Let me be Your Instrument.

When troubles come and I'm about to fall
Help me to listen and hear Your call
To higher heights and deeper depths
With purer thoughts to spiritual wealth
To a mark of a higher calling in You.

Use me Lord, to do Your will
Let Your Love be the permanent seal'
To bind me forever to the cause
To stand for the Truth
No matter the cost
 That my life might be an example
Of a Christlike life, filled with Your strength
Lord, Let me be Your Instrument.

When others fail, and from You, turn their face
Because of disbelief of Your grace
Their eyes being blinded in discontent
Give to me that "more -than-conquerors strength
Take my hand; let me stand
Boldly in Your Word and not to  flinch.

Premium Member Suffering Transforms Us

Suffering is to be found in every phase of life
Will be evident in the life of anyone who follows Father Christ 
It is not a punishment or penalty
But an ordinary part of earthly existence

Patient suffering can be a shock absorber
That helps us over the potholes 
Rough places of life without becoming all shaken up
When we accept suffering without constantly complaining
We weaken their negative impact

Wheather physical,
Mental
Emotional huts
The better we endure the cross
The more Father Christlike we become

Accepting sufferings means 
Not running towards it but through it
Father Christ speaks of a mother
Forgetting her labor pains once child is born
Some saintly people have welcomed suffering
As a way of imitating Father Christ
Proving their love for Him
Savior has said we will save our souls
Through patient endurance.

Thanks Father Christ for Your suffering to save us

May 11, 2014

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