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Premium Member Beginning to End

Quasi-star, Quasimodo, Quasimandias for sure
Eating stars, black holes, and planets, celestialities galore

It's no wonder it's so big with an appetite like that
Galumphing through the universe not caring where it's at

The size of a hundred thousand skies, you go just where you please
The only thing left in your wake won't even raise a breeze

Nature abhors a vacuum and this might just be the model
Of what happens when God himself is leaning on the throttle

Of a cosmic train that's runaway and making it's own tracks
Leaving holes where 'ere it goes, whether white or red or black

They'll be here until the end, where they'll spend their final eons
At the end of which comes something we can't readily agree on

Which is fitting for this splitting and emitting long enduring
A Providential palindrome... as enigmatic as alluring

Premium Member Exodus a Providential Pilgrimage Parta

He keeps his promises
     the marvelous work of God
prayer-answering
promise-keeping
caring living holy God
of the past
        the present
              & to be

speak o Lord
       your servant hears
fill my inadequacy
                      with you
make me your vessel
                     and renew

el shaddai
          my covenant king
          divine next-of-kin
who pays my debt
who bears my sin

Lord I can't
              you can
so I leave my outcome
                       unforced
my power of choice
                      is you
stay close
         set me apart
         different
        a light-bringer
a pilgrim
     with no hiding place
I contemplate
                my eternity
according to your mercy

Premium Member Exodus a Providential Pilgrimage Partb

I remember
               your invitation
the welcome
            of your arms
into your kingdom
                of priests
the  unexpected
in
a purpose-filled life
      the sheer wonder
      of your grace

faith's reality
a do-nothing salvation
the gift of God

          you saved us!

a time to sing
             Moses song
a persuasive testimony
                  of mighty acts
                  of a Lord who
                  acted again&again

that healing tree
                   manna(glida) for free
undeserved
unmerited
            what forbearance
            patience
            what love. what grace

a leap of light
                    into light
             a spirit of trust
faith met adversity
providence
            forward-looking
uplifted hands
         a hand upon the throne of God
a throne
              to touch for
              truth&life

revelations
                 to trust
                 as we stand
                 before the throne
messages 
of thought
        of words
           &deeds
                         so spiritual


Premium Member Exodus a Providential Pilgrimage Partd

prayer is an incense
of a quiet spirit

     this strength of fellowship
in a tent of meeting
personal
private
       a place 
       of communion
with Him

truth in every symbol
in the presence
               of the Holy one
                      among sinners
a simmering light
a seven branched stand

we change He does not
     word for word
      duty for duty
        this undeflected God
our substitute
&propritiation

a presence
        at the centre of our lives
devoted
      to detail
             persistent
ever watchful
ever caring

     marks His presence
bringing near
        on
           eagles
              wings

Premium Member Accidental Friendship Or Providential Guidance

Ours is not a friendship sired by accident.
and though the misplaced days
I enumerated as grains of sand,
Apart, we both were as sonar blips without detection,
But then from a heart's depth,
A letter, a call, an e-mail, a visit;
we were no longer as candles, detached, in low flame,
Time and circumstance had been abridged.
Our friendship, once again, has become a game
having no rules and without rhyme or reason;
Because a time of absent desire had turned to willingness,
A misplaced friendship was granted new life;
and because one besought,
Through God's Grace the love that exists between two families
was born.

We Love you S & R

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