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September 24 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 8-9
Key Verse – Luke 8:1 And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY GLAD TIDINGS REVEALER
Lord God, You are my glad tidings Revealer
through Your kingdom preaching
Thank You for redeeming my soul by Your ministry-outreaching---
Let me delight in Your mysteries of divine teaching
As I believe Your Word in my submissive searching.
Lord God, You are my glad tidings Revealer
through Your diligent caring
Thank You for keeping my faith in Your patience for venture-soaring---
Let me manifest Your light with truth-rays enduring
As I launch forth into good works’ bearing.
Lord God, You are my glad tidings Revealer
through Your peaceful quieting
Thank You for rebuking my distrust, doubting, as well as fretting---
Let me beseech Your help against unbelief so tormenting
As I abide in Your presence of joyous fellowship’s setting.
Lord God, You are my glad tidings Revealer
through Your purposeful pressing
Thank You for comforting my heart from sin-sickness that’s depressing---
Let me exalt Your name along testimonial praising
As I follow Your steps against carnal racing.
Lord God, You are my glad tidings Revealer
through Your complete filling
Thank You for establishing my prayer life with Your dealing---
Let me rise through Your Scriptural answers so fulfilling
As I awake in Your triumph of revival-refueling.
Lord God, You are my glad tidings Revealer
through Your divine overshadowing
Thank You for delivering my soul from hell’s damnation blowing---
Let me share Your compassion with Your kindness-drawing
As I declare Your grace midst gratitude-glowing.
Lord God, You are my glad tidings Revealer
through Your sovereign commanding
Thank You for reviving my spirit by Your rebuilding---
Let me follow Your steps at Your bidding
As I serve You with joy along Your triumphant prodding.
September 24, 2023
Disposable Wisdom
Each day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?
Pride swallowed to remain independent
Large, sunken eyes peered from her weathered face
Her late spouse a decorated hero
Annie’s lifestyle a national disgrace
More enlightened cultures all over the world
Have revered their seniors throughout history
Asians and Native Americans
Are just two who honor their ancestry
Polynesians, other Pacific tribes
Respect the wisdom that comes with age
Seniors are welcome in family homes
But here in the states they’re placed in a cage
Bone-thin Annie Lesley chose to be free
Amazing neighbors with her endurance
When social services tried to intervene
She fought with remarkable resilience
Old photos on walls told many great tales
But only purring Tibby was listening
Each morning she rose to care for her cat
Until the day that Tibby went missing
In tears she claimed he must have been poisoned
Though in cat years he was older than she
Each day she sat by the window, staring
Awaiting the homecoming of Tibby
She’d been abandoned by society
Lost in the world’s most “progressive” nation
For sacrificing her spouse in World War II
Annie received little compensation
This widowed war bride never had children
Her mate had met his fate in Normandy
Posthumous awards she dusted each day
Annie’s life was defined by loyalty
To a man and a cat who never came home
And the vigil she kept all alone
Ended quietly one warm summer night
When an angel came to take Annie home
With a can of cat food in hand when found
Annie had nothing else to eat in her house
This is the way a veteran’s wife died
And tear stains had blemished her faded blouse
Although seniors’ wisdom is heeded
In societies that grow from history
Too many like Annie lead lonely lives
Wisdom untapped, they die in poverty
081521, Celebrating Carolyn's Poetry: An Uncontest Poetry Contest, Sponsored by: Andrea Dietrich. 1P
I chose this poem because it speaks of Legacy and Love.
It challenges me to be more caring and outreaching.
It paints a fresh portrait of the power of a poem and
a story. Curtis Johnson.
September 5 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Matthew 1-4
Key Verse – Matthew 1: 23Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, And they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY EVER-PRESENT EMMANUEL
Lord God, You are my ever-present Emmanuel,
along Your acts, revealed by the Holy Ghost
Thank You for saving me from sins’ condemning host
And still raising me as Your child within Your nurturing post…
Indeed, I honour You that You had me rescued against being eternally lost.
Lord God, You are my ever-present Emmanuel,
along Your wise plan
Thank You for finding me out from false religion’s clan
And still filling me with Your provisions as a blessed woman…
Indeed, I serve You, since it is only by Your power that I can.
Lord God, You are my ever-present Emmanuel,
along Your divine treasures
Thank You for enriching with Your spiritual promise that assures
And still taking me out from wickedness’ pressures…
Indeed, I praise You while I dwell in Your will’s pleasures.
Lord God, You are my ever-present Emmanuel,
along Your Word of biblical preaching
Thank You for enabling me to learn from Your Scriptures’ teaching
And still beseeching me with Your mercies-stretching…
Indeed, I worship You, privileged to involve in Your kingdom’s outreaching.
Lord God, You are my ever-present Emmanuel,
along Your constant goodness
Thank You for purging me from sinfulness
And still sanctifying me as I repent against wickedness…
Indeed, I trust You as I dwell in Your lovingkindness.
Lord God, You are my ever-present Emmanuel,
along Your bountiful compassion
Thank You for setting me toward character-perfection
And still transforming me by Your virtuous restoration…
Indeed, I need You as I live for Your glory with Your provision.
Lord God, You are my ever-present Emmanuel,
along Your Word of fulfilling might
Thank You for refreshing me with Your truth and right
And still strengthening me against weakness-blight…
Indeed, I exalt You, in the soaring of my faith-flight.
September 5, 2023
October 6 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on John 7-8
Key Verse – John 7:37-38 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY THIRST’S DIVINE QUENCHER
Lord God, You are my spiritual thirst’s divine Quencher
by Your awesome miracle
Thank You for Your grace, saving my soul and shielding my earthly tabernacle
Help me do Your assigned task as a willing receptacle
For my work’s performance by Your powerful spectacle.
Lord God, You are my spiritual thirst’s divine Quencher
by Your lawful truthfulness
Thank You for Your mercy midst Your judgment and righteousness
Help me learn from Your lessons of justice as well as fairness
For my wisdom’s function according to Your Scripture’s steadfastness.
Lord God, You are my spiritual thirst’s divine Quencher
by Your Holy Ghost’s satisfaction
Thank You for Your answers to my question, pacifying my confusion
Help me apply Your precepts along Your instruction
For my faith’s strength toward spiritual progression.
Lord God, You are my spiritual thirst’s divine Quencher
by Your Bible teaching
Thank You for Your commandments exhorted during preaching
Help me exalt Your name in my service of soul-outreaching
For my kindness’ record of goodness-stretching.
Lord God, You are my spiritual thirst’s divine Quencher
by Your eternal treasury
Thank You for Your compassion expressed by Your wondrous Gospel story
Help me continue in Your ministry, subduing worry through Your victory
For my freedom’s joy in living for Your honour and glory.
Lord God, You are my spiritual thirst’s divine Quencher
by Your deeds of loving
Thank You for Your assurance as my anchor for believing
Help me speak of Your promises I’m convinced of receiving
For my testimony’s confidence against errors destructively deceiving.
Lord God, You are my spiritual thirst’s divine Quencher
by Your prophecy-fulfillment
Thank You for Your covenant revealed in Your testament
Help me rejoice in Your statutes of faithful agreement
For my revival’s inspiration as I abide in Your encouragement.
October 6, 2023
I teeter on the brink of possibility.
The sun on the new horizon glistens
its rays on the undulating sea of change.
I gaze a while, drifting with a squawking gull,
or diving with a hunting cormorant -
lost in my imagination, caught in plausibility.
Sometimes a gust of wind unsettles my balance;
I totter into uncertainty, struggling to stand,
but you take my hand and steady me.
Now I only look ahead; no way back.
The chasm is inviting me to jump;
to take a leap of faith and ditch the doubt.
I place my baggage at my feet;
packages of responsibility and confusion
tucked in neatly and nestling with the past.
One last tug at the sleeve of my coat
as they make a last ditch attempt to restrain me,
and I have jumped - flying through the air, free.
As I land I see you there smiling and safe,
arms outreaching. The promise of the future beckons,
and looks inviting, exciting and full of hope.
Once I teetered on the brink of possibility
now it is a glistening reality. The sea is calm now.
And, as the sun sets on the horizon, I am home.
(note: to all my lovely friends who thought I was literally considering leaping into a chasm to
my death, I can assure that I am most certainly not!!! It is merely a metaphorocal chasm,
and I intend to stick around for quite a while yet. Heavens, I am just about to have a book
published, life is very good! Thanks so much for your concern though)
October 10 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Matthew 21-22
Key Verse – Matthew 21:21-22 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR EXHORTING US
TO HAVE FAITH IN HIM
Praise be to God for exhorting us to have faith in Him,
trusting sincerely His:
Comfort with His care
Cleansing against curses
Compassion and clemency
Correction for our consecration
Charity midst chastisements in our conversion
Matthew 21:22 Praise be to the Lord for teaching us
to pray, believing that we shall receive through His:
Omnipresence around His will
Omniscience, asserting His wisdom
Omnipotence according to His Word
Opportunities, abounding wondrously
Offered optimizations for outreaching worthily
Matthew 22:18 Praise be to the Saviour Who
perceives our wickedness and checks our:
Hypocrisy, hiding our helplessness
Haughtiness, hampering humble handling
Half-heartedness, heralding our heathenism
Hard-headedness, hoisting harrowing haphazardness
Hopelessness, hitting heavenly holiness with hindering holes. Amen!
October 10, 2024
An unedifying wodge of a f@ggot’s unlit f@g,
Sat upon the unbitten flesh of his lower lip.
A moonlit spotlight skittered through the skylight,
Drawn down to a randy bastard’s come congealing upon her clit.
The liquid surface of her sherry glass eyes glistened,
Alike a bloodily blotched blade, alight with a crimson sheen.
The blunted blade receding, whence her legs enclosed within,
Like an un-burly butterfly, closing its withered wings.
Frilly flames licked at the lanky tip of a bored bastard’ titular tab,
Somersaulting rivets of smoke swivelled in a dainty plume of perforated performance.
Vivid branches of blotchy blues sat askew upon her ashen flesh,
Against the glossy maroon that marred his wrinkled chest,
The uneven wash of eager flush dawned upon the flesh of his wettened neck.
Vascular roots twined with the pale pink of a rose,
Arose to unfurl from the hollow of his clavicle, up his white throat
Her palms were damp, veins unveiled beneath rancid rot,
Outpoured from her open pores.
Alight with the lilac-blue of ignited night skies,
Mightily reigned by the mid of night.
She had become a mackerel within his make believe,
Nipping at the sea front’s air struggling to breathe.
Gooseflesh rippled across her hollow breast,
Whence he advanced with the gait of his senior state,
Outreaching tobacco stained fingers, to encroach the small of their stiffened peaks, so
The hollow of her breast staggered and sought the stagnant skies.
And where in the repeating retreat of associated countenance
Her eyes crept beneath the bedded covers, in their dissociated acceptance
Perhaps to haps the coarse comfort of the eventide,
Or to suckle the succulent rays of blistering sunlight.
And whence his drawl lulled into the languid pull of slumber,
His lame limbs sought the crease between her breasts.
And whence the moon dimmed, the night-lilac of the sky,
Swallowed the ‘bundant bruising beneath her eyes.
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Our Life......As An ...inverted......tree
Asvatha it is called
it is tree of life,
Name implies:
‘Not Forever’
Inverted it is
has its roots
in the skies
trunk below
oh it seems
topsy turvy
our world;
away from
its source
far away.
shooting
spreading
alive-gross
our desires
branches off
our Karmic fold
work. duties deeds
..desires necessities routes
Ordained in-ordained destinies
Deja vu surprises I knew it why me !
Branches bifurcating swaying together outreaching
Joys and Agonies All drawing from A common source
.now on their own accord erect strong grown
Bearing leaves flowers. fruits. inviting avians
Inviting cats for a nap inspiring kids to climb
Inverted Tree Metaphor Explaining Our Lives
Animate...alive...drawing from source...yet
forgetting at times. Was contained in a seed;
Space;Time; Destiny pulled it down. Now earthly
every season wearing a new appearance - Tree of Life
Knowledge gathered are the leaves and flowers
With seasons; some shed; some bear fruits
The fruits are a result of our actions; Karma
Karma are the fruits that the tree bears- only to drop
Tree sheds the fruits, in renunciation
In its own search for nature, aground
The fruits contain seeds
The seed beholding tree
The distance is abridged
As the tree regerminates
In reality or in potentiality
The separation- was never in distance
never a measure
was appearance
our forgetfulness
as we branch off
only to complete
the time journeys
enacted in space
In a play
no birth;
no death
.
Moksha- Is only a concept
.
born under the sea, an irresistible force
two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
equatorial deep-time child of Laurentia and Avalonia
journey northward, surfacing, submerging
surfing the waves again, a colder Hibernian dalliance
precariously perched on Eurasian plate
old bedrock confused, youthful erosion above the ancient order
darkness entombed around channelled winter light
early New Grange civilisation, the Boyne valley before the blood
river mouth vikings, raiding, assimilating
birth of the coming capital, eastern stronghold, Baile Atha Cliath
chain-mail Norman conquerors castle-building
appointing pious supplicants with sword, cloth, crook and cross
wholly unholy alliances unravel
rival hierarchies sharing ill-gotten earthly reward from overseas
saintliness, brutality, men and women
expanding Christendom, pagan kingdoms adjusting to defeat
Patrick, Brigid, Columba, Columbanus
Irish civilising roman catholic conduits, Dalriata to Lindisfarne
outreaching, a strand of Irish character
yet to encounter future revisionary metaphysical thought
protestant rebellion, mainland overspill
praying elites competing, preying on the island's god-fearing people
avian watchers on Skellig pinnacles
warm ocean currents well-up, catching the southwestern gale
enduring the ill-will of nature and man
supplanting, subjugating, saving souls, the power of might and fear
treachery within or well beyond the pale
fair and dark hair, ginger genetics existing on the edge of life
tossed thin people hanging on, many leaving
scraping blighted ground, returning to the sea, promise of the unknown
July 10 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 132-137
Key Verse – Psalms 132:8 Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ARISING TO HELP US
Praise be to God for arising to help us:
Shaking us from sorrow’s slumber
Subduing us against sinfulness’ shame
Stopping us toward selfishness-shaping
Shutting us upon slothfulness’ stormy swing
Smiting us, settling us to shun spoilage-stinking
Psalms 133:3 Praise be to the Lord for
commanding His blessings to:
Overtake us by His faithfulness
Overflow for us along His fruitfulness
Overwhelm us while we offer to Him by faith
Open to us opportunities for outreaching freedom
Order us toward obedience-optimization with fueled fortitude
Psalms 134:1 Praise be to the Saviour for
inviting us to serve Him and:
Stand for His Word
Stay under His watch
Suffer in His worthy will
Show His wondrous ways
Shine by His Scripture’s wisdom
Psalms 135:4 Praise be to the Almighty
for choosing us unto Himself to enjoy His:
Eternal grace
Everlasting gift
Enduring goodness
Extraordinary grants
Enlightening gloriousness
Psalms 136:2 Praise be to the Creator
for listening to our thanksgiving for His:
Peaceful trials
Precious triumph
Peculiar treasures
Powerful teachings
Priceless testimonies
Psalms 137:7 Praise be to the Holy Spirit
for remembering us in our:
Desire for His comfort
Delight in His compassion
Dedication and commitment
Declaration of clinging to His call
Dependence on His consoling cheer. Amen!
July 10, 2024