Forgiveness is devine offerings
The most humblest best of one’s heart strings
I know because I have plucked that one
And healing of my soul has begun.
When you let the light of life shine through
It’s amazing what our Lord can do
He knows what’s right and He sees wrong
In his arms is where the good belong.
You are safe as can be, He said to me
I am the shepherd of earthly fleece
I grant the peace that you are looking for
Light still shines through your windows and door.
When weathering the storms passing through
The sun will shine again, down on you
Peace is the balm that lessens one’s pain
Helps broken hearts become whole again.
In two weeks,
the Loy Krathong
will begin.
12th in the
Lunar calendar,
atone for a sin.
Floating specks,
like us
but in the sky.
The stars
or the lanterns;
fault of the eye.
To beg for
forgiveness
to an imaginary friend.
Hence the offerings
galore
faithful until the end.
No one has seen
Or known our humanely ruin;
but we have fantasized.
We still have mosaics,
delusions, excuses,
never considering if they were lies.
There is no such thing
as truth or deceit
in matters like this.
Strip away the skin and
flesh and bones
a soul trapped in a fist.
It beats,
the fist a prison,
and pleads to escape.
It tries until
it gives up one day,
then it is too late.
So take a fragment
of your essence
hold it in the tips
of your fingers.
Watch! Its
pure joy
converts into light
and its warmth lingers.
Once you release it, the light, your
spirit,
floats in a ship of parchment;
you’re too late, you believe.
But then a glow
slits into your eyes;
you made it part of the sky,
your soul is free.
You offered me nothing new
You didn't have a trace of gold in your sandals
You merely came to my four walls
but we became confused
about the things we couldn't heal
Steve McQueen and Patricia Neal
came a jolting
All our yesterdays awoken
Paddling down the stream
did we care anymore
Changes the preordained way
Apologizing if i stayed too long
waiting outside
Think of greater things,
Prayers we could be offering.
Earth unity bring!
February 14 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Numbers 7-8
Key Verse – Numbers 7:3 And they brought their offering before the LORD… and they brought them before the tabernacle.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO WELCOMES
OUR OFFERINGS FOR HIM
Praise be to God for welcoming
our offerings for Him:
Sanctified for His anointed purpose
Set upon His altar of prayer
Sincere according to His plan
Sacrificed along His providence
Surrendered by His approval-perfection.
Numbers 8:3 Praise be to the Lord Who
brings light to our lamps while we:
Testify about His goodness against despair
Trust His great direction
Triumph in His grand doctrine-distinctives
Thank His great deeds
Toil for His Gospel-declaration
Numbers 8:11 Praise be to the Saviour
for enabling us to execute service-performance:
Enlightened by His Word
Examined through His ways
Established in His work
Empowered along His will
Esteemed with His worth. Amen!
February 14, 2024
January 26 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 25-27
Key Verse – Exodus 25:1-2 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO INSTRUCTS US
TO BRING HIM OFFERINGS
Praise be to God for instructing us
to bring Him our offerings:
Willingly with satisfaction joy
Wholeheartedly along salvation jubilation
Worshipfully in our spiritual journey
Winsomely through our stewardship jobs
Exodus 26:1 Praise be to the Lord for granting us
what His tabernacle requires:
Curtains of redemption
Coverings of righteousness
Clothes of revival
Exodus 27:21 Praise be to the Saviour for radiating to us
His holiness as our testimony-light before Him that:
Burns from evening to morning
Beautifies for His glory and majesty
Blesses His magnificence as well as His omnipotence
Besets us around His righteousness for Gospel sharing. Amen!
January 26, 2024
January 16 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 46-47
Key Verse– Genesis 46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO WELCOMES OUR OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES
Praise be to God for welcoming us to offer sacrifices unto Him Who:
Speaks to us with His “I am God” with assertion
Secures us with His “Fear not” assurance
Settles us with His “I will surely bring thee up” affirmation.
Genesis 47:12 Praise be to the Lord for nourishing us with His:
Bread’s bountifulness despite famine and fruitlessness
Benefits’ blissfulness despite failure of money
Business’ bonuses despite fear of futility. Amen!
January 16, 2024
O' so fine so fairest ever true
IN His presence
You're His Blessings, offering and in HIM
In you He birth good things so true
Blessed are those Offered Offerings
From our Father to you
5/20/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2023
Long ago our ancestors,
waited for the time,
When it was warm in spring
To plant the grain, the fruit, the vine,
The Earth, it is awakening
Ere winter storm subside.
Fallow fields are waiting
for the seedlings to reside.
lighting up the flames now
in the season filled with fire,
passion, love and fruitfulness,
All fuel us with desire,
As the flames go higher
Throw your offerings in the embers.
As we thank mother nature
for all the goodness which she renders.
OFFERINGS
appearance
entering
a
space
with
evasive
gestures
triggered
changes
interventions verge
on the
infinitesimal
ideas fully
experiential
participating
again
in another
interpretative
process
of
enlargement
to encourage
to promulgate
interpretation
so fundamental
is allowed
to escape
to dissolve
into
belief
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
I offer up little as God gives much lots~
3/29/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©
I
I give thanks to The LORD six days a week. I forget which days I forget!
II
Little Jack Horner refused to sit in the corner: I may be little, he said, but I have a right to free pie
I propose you
sweet words,
flowers and words...
I offer you mine
core and soul...
heart of love
and friendship
of soul...
I deliver you
feelings,
pure, white
immaculate
and others...
Pure, red
in love...
I carry a bouquet of
emotions
colorful...
I present you pleasure
from my body
and other things...
I hope with faith
you may offer
your heart,
and accept my
heart,
one day...!
Sharp the need
burning the bitter weed
burnt offerings in
fragments of imagery
feeling the spice sweet
dreams come
nice as the world swims
out of view
the light feeds on the pain
as if on cue feelings curl
around my spine
as the monsters crawl
were all is pain
smoldering lighting
erupts the vain
the poison seeps
on the nerves optically
burn the sweet spice
turn feelings
harrowing or serene
burrows deep
my spine sharp
but nice
burning the bitter weed
sharp is the need
Rain falls silently beyond the farthest hill
as morning cries from life's night of despair
Where shaded shadows stand in solitude seeking wisdom
after stars fell without notice by human eyes
corrupted by caustic cradles of candles waxing
Searching for answers in skies where there is no sun
and finding weakness wandering to wailing walls
because all are lost from reason and sanity
infused instead by illusions of light lit longingly in wistfulness
As anger confronts confusion leading to the death of all
left to be buried by no one but the passing of time
that cares not whether we pass this way again
Maybe another candle will be lit
8/30/20
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