Poems of Life and Love

Life is one of perceptions,
Like pretending to be real when fake,
Better to be beyond deceptions,
And make reality your stake.

It's not God who condemns,

Though He does chastise,

Our consciences convict us,

When we open our ears and eyes.

The glory of the gospel,

Is what it inspires,

When we respond to God,

Our hearts He fires.

Hearts lit and aflame for The Lord: an undeniable movement of repentance, as we turn back to God for the glory of His name. Being convicted can seem such a threat, but it always leads to life!

A health concern

Is horrible to learn

In all kinds of different ways.

All we can do

Is manage our bodies true

Praying for peace all our days.

When we pray our circumstances don't change, but our view of them does. Health concerns can bury us in anxiety, which leads to fatiguing depression. But when we pray, seeking peace, God gives us a new porthole through which to look.

Something as a parent I always love doing:

Watching and enjoying my kids' learning,

That's always been my hope for them,

That they never lack their life yearning.

Our passions sustain us. Just so much desire in me for my children to find and do work they love doing.

Enjoying the simpler things,

Like music, movement, and the Messiah,

There, there is life in what God brings,

As hearts are lit and passions are afire.

Opening up to the possibilities for life and joy, beyond many varietals of spiritual oppression, is simply surrendering to the vast world of creation available to the open eye of the heart.

Too much of our lives we spend

Wanting to be someone else

When all God asks us is to

Be content to know our self.

As two become one,

Their love is found unique,

What they will become,

Is truly something complete.

Think of love as an unrefined perfection; what God can do for two imperfect people as they agree to submit to one another for the marriage's sake. Love is willing sacrifice. Love is God's answer: one human being to another.

If I'm concerned for you,
Because God's given me
Reason to be,
Let me care for you,
Provided I protect your dignity