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March 11 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Kings 1-4
Key Verse – 1Kings 1:3 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR REIGNING UPON MY LIFE
Thank You for reigning upon my life goal
Upholding me in my steward’s role
For me to serve You with all my heart and soul
While seeking Your delight beyond bounty in a bowl.
Thank You for reigning upon my life direction
Upbraiding me in my faulty selfish decision
For me to repent with sincere determination
While asking for Your pardon away from destruction.
Thank You for reigning upon my life desires
Uplifting to fulfill what Your Word requires
For me to strive until my diligence retires
While prioritizing Your kingdom through Your revival fires.
Thank You for reigning upon my life security
Upkeeping me to maintain wellness against infirmity
For me to depend on Your protective stability
While exalting Your name with the best of my ability.
Thank You for reigning upon my life changes
Upstaging me to cope with varied challenges
For me to stand upon Your statutes’ charges
While trusting Your guidance in my travel along faith-carriages.
Thank You for reigning upon my life successes
Uprooting me from sinfulness’ curses and losses
For me to triumph over weakness-crosses
While claiming for your victory assured by Your power-forces.
March 11, 2022
March 11 Heart for God Bible Meditations Based on Joshua 1-4
Key Verse – Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
HEART THAT IS STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE BECAUSE OF GOD’S PRESENCE
Our heart is strong and of good courage upon God’s presence in our goal
Upholding us in our steward’s role
So that we can serve Him with all our strength and soul
Always seeking His delight against worldliness’ pole.
Our heart is strong and of good courage upon God’s presence in our direction
Upbraiding us in our faulty selfish decision as well as reaction
So that we can repent with sincere determination
Always asking for His pardon away from destruction.
Our heart is strong and of good courage upon God’s presence in our desires
Uplifting us to fulfill what His Word requires
So that we can persevere until our diligence retires
Always prioritizing His kingdom through His revival fires.
Our heart is strong and of good courage upon God’s presence in our security
Upkeeping us to maintain wellness against infirmity
So that we can depend on His protective stability
Always exalting His name with the best of our ability.
Our heart is strong and of good courage upon God’s presence in our changes
Upstaging us to cope with varied challenges
So that we can stand upon His statutes’ charges
Always trusting His guidance in our travel along faith-carriages.
Our heart is strong and of good courage upon God’s presence in our successes
Uprooting us from sinfulness’ curses and losses
So that we can triumph over weakness-crosses
Always claiming for His victory assured by His power-forces.
Our heart is strong and of good courage upon God’s presence in our stewardship
Upbringing us for servanthood by His partnership
So that we can follow Him along His loving leadership
Always involving in His ministry midst faithful discipleship and vibrant worship.
March 11, 2026
HILARITY
the comedic
to imbue
something
a little
different
memorable
twists
authenticity
in the
overlap
between
memory
conceived
atmosphere
upstaging
with the edgy
attention
organically
grabbing
the
seemingly
desperate
& ambient
embracing
effortlessly
&exploring
a tinge
of
experience
of an
immersive
journey
of the engaging
&thoughtful
focused on
the
self-conscious
inimical
&
blissfully
accessible
yet uncanny
curiosity
connected
to
the
sublime
&abject
being
surprised
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
Does life seem to you,
as love does to we,
that virtuous circles
engage healing intent
While viscious squares
of bad-tempered stomping
marches much less gayly
toward escalating drama
with harmful trauma
and persistent
discontent
Positive engagement
does not engage negative performers
as if some lives
are divinely entitled
to redemptively matter more,
and thereby attract glowing floodlights
Upstaging those worshipping lesser
unstraight
unmale
unwhite gods
and goddesses of trust
and compassion
without boundaries
Backstage,
opening opaque
and closing vulnerable curtains
breathes diverse gender icons,
sexualized idols
Muses
recomposing noted feelings
from inside out,
hard erect warriors
embracing soft receptive catchers,
absorbent empathizers
Integrity's copassionate healers,
pulling and pushing together
1 way
with 0 means.
Blessed season of Fall bursts with beauty
Exposing color-changes’ divergence
Accentuating air of serenity
Upheld by God’s glorious* magnificence!
Testifying nature’s great variety
Inspiring creativity’s influence
Fall’s radiance shines midst gloom’s obscurity
Upstaging Summer heat’s oppressive sense
Leading toward triumph’s progress-bounty!
Fiery glow over boredom’s prevalence
Autumn shows grand life stage reality
Lifting our spirits from failures’ despondence
Letting us learn truths on humility!
*Psalm 145:5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy (LORD's) majesty, and of thy wondrous works.
September 10, 2018
4th Place, "Beautiful fall" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by John Hamilton; judged on 9/14/2018.
May 9 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 4-7
Key Verse – Job 4:3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY INSTRUCTOR
Lord God, You are my Instructor,
upholding me from falling
Thank You for touching my heart that’s fainting and troubling---
You’re my Confidence through Your hope’s sealing
While You anchor me in Your righteous dealing.
Lord God, You are my Instructor,
uplifting me by Your discernment
Thank You for purifying my faith in Your empowerment---
You’re my Foundation in my service-commitment
While You guide me in Your wisdom-fulfillment.
Lord God, You are my Instructor,
updating me with Your answer to my supplication
Thank You for guarding my soul from sin’s affliction---
You’re my Deliverer along Your assured redemption
While You hide me from the scourge of hell-destruction.
Lord God, You are my Instructor,
upstaging me from worldly worthlessness
Thank You for pulling my mind toward Your gracious peacefulness---
You’re my Sanctifier, cleansing me from filthiness with Your forgiveness
While You search me in Your truthfulness.
Lord God, You are my Instructor,
upsizing me against down-treading grief-calamity
Thank You for granting my request with Your certainty---
You’re my Strength Who is Almighty
While You help me with Your gracious sovereignty.
Lord God, You are my Instructor,
upbringing me from ignorant reasoning
Thank You for consuming my pride along humanistic winning---
You’re my Teacher, causing me to understand divine learning
While You turn me from perversion-leaning.
Lord God, You are my Instructor,
upsurging me toward heavenly desire
Thank You for clothing my personality with virtues You require---
You’re my Comforter midst anguish that doesn’t inspire
While You preserve me until I retire.
May 9, 2023
You meet and shake hands
Things seem fine, real grand
You're married; so are they
You all work for your pay
He's a dentist; she's in social work
Professionals, not lowly clerks
Then you notice their kids. They're strange, a bit weird
One wakes up after noon; another has a full beard
Of course, your first two divorced; they take after you
The next two -- idiosyncratic: Are you that way too?
When you visit their home, their kids are all raging
Yelling and screaming, constantly upstaging
Their parents, who'd once seemed so engaging
And when they return the favor, your oldest just sits
He stares into space, picks at buttons and zits
As the other texts like mad, anything to
Avoid talking to friends of Mom and Dad
You view them as parents now, and what do you see?
A pair of losers whose kids run wild and free
And when they look at you, they see something similar too
A couple of failures whose kids drive them cuckoo
It's time to go; you smile and shake hands once again
Half-heartedly agree to another date, but when?
Who has time these days? "We'll get back to you."
As you silently stew: How'd it all come unglued?
My new forest and park neighbors,
mostly birds
squirrels
and strangely curious
and ravenous rabbits,
Have become accustomed to,
spoiled by,
fragrant green sanctuary
ancient fertile memories.
But, today
our neighborly horse farm
must be cleaning house.
This smells of too rich compost
upstaging even more gracious green.
This downgrade
calls to me
recalling former toxic smells,
fossil fuel exhausting,
were sooo... much more degenerative.
Horsey compost
lies between love's light life fragrance
and dark skinned death
of odorous Earth.
Yet, comparing distances
between green forest
and horse fragrance
and transported stinky fractures
through sacred climates ecological
resonant and resilient airs
and gusts
and breezes,
Comparative distances
continuously,
yet consecutively, change
what one might argue
is a contrasting wealth of difference,
+1, to -1, with midway
horse-powered zero neutral
Feels more like two-thirds healthy fragrance
and only one third toxic
Feels closer to three-fourths salient
to one-fourth punitive memory
from here
and now perspective,
Feels closer to seven-eighths
to one-eighth formerly deranged
of a revolutionary
resonantly regenerative
fractalling
resiliently redundant
multicultural sensory/spiritual
nurturing
re-communicating natural octave
of Golden Ratio/Rule comparison,
At last
resiliently resonant.
It had been a day full of miraculous detail.
Freezing rain played the ground like a kettle drum.
Trees snapped and flowers curtsied
before engaging in a pas de deux
with blades of grass on the stage
of this summer eve.
Our erupting blazing star...
Sported a set of yellow barn doors sorely in need of a paint job;
Closed shut with a heavy metal rusty lock seeping a golden shade;
Upstaging the blue sky and creating its own distinct wash
to signal the break of day.
A curvy curved river flowed naturally through
the mountains into a water colored sunset.
The moon waited patiently offstage with bedroom eyes
anxious to make her entrance.
And I,
Well - I just stood motionless,
Hoping to absorb it all;
Hoping to never take this planet for granted;
A non opiate
I like to call
Organic Ecstasy.
And not a sign of men’s hands anywhere in sight.
14~12~2014
Maurice Yvonne
People often get stuck on what to call their fish
and in many cases come up with ridiculous things.
They imagine some kind of greatness, attached to
naming, and they name them Moby, or Jaws, or Hannibal.
Some are poetic and flowing like water- Eulalie
or Aolani( Ay-o-lawn-ee) which means "Heavenly Cloud."
Some joke, and call them Sushi or Chips
which no self respecting pet suspects the meaning of …..
or, they invoke nature -with
Bubbles, Starlight or Pearl.
There was a puffer fish named Toto that became
a small attraction at a resort turtle pool
Beside a path of yellow stone he would surface -
squirt a perfect stream of water from his mouth
to the surprise and delight of passing tourists
daily upstaging resident sea turtles.