lifelong lessons
Life can advance no more Than the pace it moves The hurry we initiate and keep Cannot condition life to our terms Life counts moment by moment Minutes to hours, days to weeks No more or less that it is Why bear the pain of worry? Let tomorrow’s problem be with tomorrow Let the sleeping dogs of yesterday lie Sufficient for today is its evil And your best is – to be your best today The setback […]
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The case seems closed indeed You who refused to give heed Is now faced upfront with need And helpless like a withering seed Once confident, now in your shadows Time to read, you strolled instead in the meadow* For study, you took rather a bed below Now reckoning nears like a farmer’s sow From the store full of nothing Remembrance brings not a thing Pained and helpless like a stone less sling Your case, not a solution […]
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Stranger than fiction Is the concept of failure When all that led to it Is a sure dint* of hard work Marrow-deep is the pain When after long days of toil All that fills our barns Are no better than the rewards of a sloth* ‘Incomprehensible’ is the word That does best describe A result that negates All premise* that led to it How best can it be explained If the universal principle of ‘Sow and Reap’ […]
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Tears have made me look Like a scarified being They have been shed uncontrollably Rolling from upper lid to lower lip I cried not because I had tears Nor because my emotions were tweaked* But there was a pain in my heart That forced the tears from their source When I tried to hold back these tears Unthinking these thoughts that made me sad Though my eyelids were in close contact My lashes remained wet from the caress […]
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It began like a flimsy thought Testing the waters for opposition I knew its type and daring nature But seeing it creep, all I did was behold I had the bridle and the bit To condition my horse of a mind But I held both bridle and bit And watched the back of a galloping horse This thought had set my mind to race And when I knew what I was doing I was surprised I was […]
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On the quest to mold We all have borne ourselves here Carved in by torments we know Only too well to tell another Arriving at the Potter’s porch Loud wailing, silent sobs Expressing our burdens as we know how The Potter is not more moved than He is Awaiting our call We watch others’ burdens flee Earnestly wishing to be next As the Potter’s wheel spins on When our time is come We anticipate a relief, a […]
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Who was a king and yet a child? Who in a mortal’s womb tarried And born at birth a little lad? My Jesus Who lived and grew at sturdy pace? Filled with the Father’s love and grace Who for my sake, this world did grace? My Jesus When men picked stones to cast at me Who stooped to write a law for me And while in sin did set me free? My Jesus When scars of evil […]
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Through the winding path, unto Golgotha Trod children, men, mothers, babes also In their midst was a man Upon Him was a wooden cross Whips struck as they were forced Nowhere else but upon His back Mockery was made unanimously Verbal assault on this undeserving One Golgotha reached, the cross was raised Other crosses also were raised Upon the crosses were hung men Two justly, the other faultless The faultless one was struck and His blood […]
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I came across a written desire So bold, I couldn’t help looking Startled at first, I took a second look Then I saw it clearly, or so I thought “Oh God I desire to be successful I want to be rich and influential I want to be great and famous But most of all, Lord take me ‘THERE’” “Where is ‘THERE’?”, I unconsciously asked If a man prefers ‘THERE’ to wealth and influence Trading greatness for this vaguely […]
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Just words and the formless earth took a form. Only His word could conjure a geoid* Through the geoid and the void without it A being roams to and fro, the devil But He, in omnipresence dominates With weakly bonded molecules of water He did rid earth once of evil These molecules bore an ark way high Above the highest of peaks With the invisible force that sways trees Parted He the red sea for His people to tread […]
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