Divorced from our true self, we wandered lost,
oblivious to truth of our being,
looming head-heart divide yet to be crossed,
with whispers of conscience disagreeing.
Trapped thus in a web of desire and fear,
joy in permanence soul sought was denied,
since ego let not love and light draw near,
deeming our waywardness as justified.
God, the dweller of our heart was dismayed,
yet waited for us, His child to awake
always ready to hasten to our aid,
by giving a gentle consciousness shake.
God’s left it to us to change our life’s course,
since touch of love applies no use of force.
Categories:
waywardness, divorce, god, introspection, love,
Form: Sonnet
The rampant waywardness of man's inhumanities
is continually taking its toll; but the eternal covenant
set in place by God still holds. Set in place generations
ago, such covenant will never grow old. Sometimes it's
too cloudy to see, but there's a rainbow somewhere out there beeming in colors of hope. So we must remind each
other that none need to give up, give in, or give out, nor
be found hanging on the end of a rope.
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Categories:
waywardness, endurance,
Form: Free verse
October 19 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Mark 13-14
Key Verse – Mark 13:5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR WARNING US
AGAINST DECEIVERS
Praise be to God for warning us against deceivers with their:
Dishonest words
Disgraceful ways
Disrespectful witness
Detrimental worldliness
Dysfunctional waywardness
Mark 13:32-37 Praise be to the Lord for
commanding us to be watchful while:
Waiting actively for His arrival
Working abundantly by His affirmation
Wanting His approval along His assurance
Walking against arrogant and apathetic attitude
Withdrawing from abominations through His assistance
Mark 14:6 Praise be to the Saviour for
delighting in our good work wrought on Him:
Dearly with dedication by His divine design
Diligently with determination to His direction
Dutifully with dependence on His driving defense
Devotedly with decisiveness through His distinction
Determinedly with discipline and discretion from destruction. Amen!
October 19, 2024
Categories:
waywardness, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Eve listened to the evil feelings and thoughts in her heart.
Adam heard her hissing, as though, conscience tearing apart.
Arrogance-filled waywardness shined in the form of Apple.
Against their pride, the Almighty's love was seen to grapple.
Did the core conscience of Cain convince him to kill Abel?
Crimes and crudeness like one's flesh and blood became integral.
Suicide, homicide, and witchcraft continued like chains.
Under kings and emperors, humans were in endless pains.
Could Moses, Aaron, or Miriam save Yahweh's people?
Could saints and prophets of endless ages end every evil?
Who must win when humans and men fight for a bit of bread?
Why should humans fighting against humans find themselves dead?
Goodness failed. Evils won. Virtues lost wars against vices.
Existence shrank into contradictions and compromises.
Categories:
waywardness, life, sin,
Form: Sonnet
May 28 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Esther 4-6
Key Verse – Esther 4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO GRANTS TIMELY DELIVERANCE
Praise be to God Who grants timely deliverance with His:
Victorious leadership
Valuable lessons
Virtuous liberty
Vital lifting-up
Valiant love
Esther 5:6 Praise be to the Lord
for granting our petitions asked:
Along His Word’s worth
About His work so wondrous
Amidst His wisdom, not worldly
Around His ways of worshipfulness
According to His will against waywardness
Esther 6:3 Praise be to the Saviour
for upholding our integrity:
Delighting in our godly honour and dignity
Desiring our good honesty as well as devotion
Directing our gracious hope along our dedication
Dealing with our guarded holiness and discernment
Defending us while granting us health from distress-despair. Amen!
May 28, 2024
Categories:
waywardness, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
May 6 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 18-20
Key Verse – 1Chronicles 18:6 …Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO PRESERVES US
Praise be to God for preserving us by His:
Power ably alerting
Presence always available
Precepts absolutely affirming
Protection attentively awakening
Provisions appropriately abounding
1Chronicles 19:13 Praise be to the Lord Who
lets us do that which is good in His sight as we:
Sincerely fulfill His will
Strongly face worldliness
Serenely find His wisdom
Surely fix our faith upon His Word
Steadfastly flee from waywardness
1Chronicles 20:4 Praise be to the Saviour
for subduing our:
Fears by His courage
Flaws along His corrections
Faithlessness through His compassion
Failure around His cheer so comforting
Foolishness with His commandments. Amen!
May 6, 2024
Categories:
waywardness, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
April 30 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 5-6
Key Verse – 1Chronicles 5:20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO IS INTREATED OF US
Praise be to God Who is intreated of us because we:
Trust in His grace
Thank His generosity
Teach by His guidance
Toil for His gloriousness
Triumph along His greatness
1Chronicles 5:26 Praise be to the Lord Who
stirs up our spirit for:
Service with humility
Separation along honesty
Sacrifice against haughtiness
Stewardship with helpfulness
Surrender that honours Him midst holiness
1Chronicles 6:15 Praise be to the Saviour for carrying us away from:
Worldliness that breeds sinfulness
Weariness that builds up slothfulness
Waywardness that braces stubbornness
Wealthiness that brags about selfishness
Worthlessness that is branded with shamefulness. Amen!
April 30, 2024
Categories:
waywardness, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
April 26 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 18-19
Key Verse – 2Kings 18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO MOVES US
TO TRUST IN HIM WHO IS THE LORD
Praise be to God for moving us to trust in the Lord:
Directing us toward His will perfectly
Disciplining us through His way protectively
Declaring to us His worthiness-wealth prudently
Delighting us according to His Word’s working powerfully
Defending us against waywardness and worldliness peacefully
2Kings 18:6 Praise be to the Lord Who
ushers us to cleave to Him as we:
Cling to His goodness
Call unto His greatness
Clamor for His guidance
Come to His graciousness
Cheer along His generosity
2Kings 19:31 Praise be to the Saviour for
His zeal that always:
Revives our faith’s strength
Restores our fuel for service
Replenishes our fervor in stewardship
Rejuvenates our flame for servanthood
Reinforces our fixed firmness in supplication. Amen!
April 26, 2024
Categories:
waywardness, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
April 23 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 9-11
Key Verse – 2Kings 9:36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite…
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO ENLIGHTENS US
THROUGH HIS WORD
Praise be to God for enlightening us through His Word that is:
Inspired for our regeneration
Indestructible along our redemption
Incontestable toward our revival
Incorruptible with our renewal
Indispensable for our restoration
2Kings 10:10 Praise be to the Lord Who does
that which He speaks:
Fulfilling His will with triumph
Freeing us from waywardness’ transgression
Framing our wisdom along His testimony
Fixing our ways toward thanksgiving
Flaming our winnings midst trials
2Kings 11:17 Praise be to the Saviour for
reinforcing His covenant toward us that is:
Sealed with His devotion
Secured by His decision
Satisfied amidst His delight
Shown along His direction
Strengthened upon dominion. Amen!
April 23, 2024
Categories:
waywardness, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Alliteration
"When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth." Genesis 4:12 of the King James Bible
Wandering nowhere
Weary to find home
worn-out and anxious
worried, guilty of
waywardness from God…
Willful, soul feels
worthless as faith
wavers, seeking
way to the Lord…
Watchful for
wisdom, I'm
welcomed to…
Where God
wants me…
Win!
April 1, 2024
4th place, "Vanish, Voyage, Veiled, Vagabond Words" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France; judged on 4/7/2024
Categories:
waywardness, blessing, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
February 19 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Numbers 18-20
Key Verse– Numbers 18:20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO ASSURES US DIVINE INHERITANCE
Praise be to God for assuring us divine inheritance:
Precious and evidently heavenly
Priceless so ever-honourable
Perfect along eternal happiness
Profitable while evoking hope
Powerful that expects humility
Numbers 19:20 Praise be to the Lord for warning us
against defiling His sanctuary with our:
Unclean heart
Unsanctified mind
Undone offerings
Unsanitary practice
Unbelieving spirit
Numbers 20:12 Praise be to the Saviour Who admonishes us
to trust Him always, and never to act as unbelieving believers:
Struggling in the wilderness of sin
Suffering in our waywardness-caused shame
Stripping ourselves of joyous worth of salvation
Separating from His will and service
Sliding back toward wisdom of self. Amen.
February 19, 2024
Categories:
waywardness, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
“Following heart, not the head ~
Let’s be, by throb of love led”
~ quote by poet
Having made God search our quest,
we first cajole thoughts to rest,
by making eye nonchalant
and fickle heart, free from want.
When our heart ceases to sway,
mind too begins to obey
and soon presence becomes still,
relinquishing egoic will.
Whispers of conscience cognised,
our waywardness realised,
making amends, we atone,
our consciousness gently hone.
Embracing thought cessation,
in all time meditation,
attuned to the universe,
melodious is soul’s verse.
Emptiness is now the norm,
invoking a benign storm,
felt as divine magnetism,
igniting mind-body prism.
Our heart knows, love within grows,
for we’re in the boat God rows,
so we share, with those who pair,
light of our soul, self-aware.
Having imbibed love’s bliss fizz,
knowing God is all there is,
we are as He, living light,
truth we see in direct sight.
Categories:
waywardness, god, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
Alone with our thoughts, with no witness in sight,
soft whispers of our conscience wave a red flag,
contracting consciousness that we feel contrite.
Soul’s truth impulse continues to prick and nag,
asking us to discern between wrong and right,
warning waywardness comes with a high price tag.
We have been granted free will and so can choose,
deeds that shape our soul and flavour of heart’s muse.
God’s vibration is love, that employs no force
and though for most part, leaves us unsupervised,
manifests clearly as sharp pang of remorse,
whenever we find out we were ill-advised,
in following cravings of lower mind coarse,
thus falling from grace, soul growth compromised.
Subtle is love’s scent, to steer our soul’s ascent,
requiring but of us, to grant it consent.
Categories:
waywardness, love, muse, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
The one who dipped his hands in the till
Adventurist misdemeanour discovered
That waywardness create no anxiety
We smoothened ruffled feathers
We found our mind and heart tranquil
To be truthful we surprised ourself
But why not forgive and forget
Love is God’s healing elixir
Categories:
waywardness, forgiveness, love,
Form: Free verse
Deceived by a friend, who we fed,
we welcome our soul’s immersion
into a realm, where souls misled,
display for conscience aversion,
so that we forgive and forget,
soaring in skies, like an eagle,
finding no cause to frown and fret,
for their waywardness illegal
comes to us as a test in jest,
that we accept all as they are,
feeling at all times, by God blessed,
minding not, the inflicted scar.
Nonchalantly ambling along,
each experience makes us strong.
Categories:
waywardness, betrayal, forgiveness, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
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