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UPDATED 12/6/21
Poems leading up to Christmas
THERE IS ONLY ONE RHYME THAT WILL LAST BEYOND TIME Living In God’s Rhyme, pg.93, ©2018
From the beginning and until the end we
Have rebelled against our most Holy Father.
We have committed adultery with gods of wood
Thinking that for us they could provide good.
Prophets of Old Testament times have spoken
Of your anger at a people whose lives were broken,
Broken because their bond with you was torn
Long before so many were ever born.
John of the New Testament describes his revelation
Of the future of this world, of the end of nations.
We who are living in the grace of a new covenant
Have brought disgrace to the grace of his Providence.
What are we to do amid this turmoil
As the Heavens cry and our hearts boil?
How do we avoid God’s anger, his wrath
As we continue down our destructive path?
Read his word, the scriptures both old and new.
Read his word, believe in his word and have life anew.
Though angry his love turned to blood,
His blood, that of his Son, that of his love.
If you believe in the God of the Bible,
You must believe his every word,
What he has done and what he will
Because of what we have done and will.
His ways are not our ways
And our ways are not his.
Be thankful that he loves us
More than we can ever love him.
He wanted us to be with him forever
So he sent his son to be the sacrifice,
To pay the price for the sins of many,
So that in his sight we are made right.
Read, believe, be baptized and spread his word.
Open your hearts to him so your soul may be saved,
That you may face eternity, not with foreboding,
But that you may face it forever with joy.
We know the story of the past,
Pray that we do not make it last,
Pray that the die has not been cast,
That at this time you accept his grace.
Since his word spoke this world into existence,
Since that word paid the ransom for our resistance,
Since before we were conceived in the womb
He knew us and desired that we avoid the tomb.
It is in our hands, the decision to be in his hands.
Get up from your life and with God stand.
Stand with faith in the resurrection of his Son
And our resurrection from what we have done.
God loves us.
He wants us with him.
He died once
That we might live.
Jesus rose so that we who believe
May also rise with him as we receive
All.
Reflection on There Is Only One Rhyme That Will Last Beyond Time
Every time I read the Bible I hope that God has a new poem to write. Sometimes it has been after reading only a few verses. This time it was after reading Jeremiah 14-16. I have been fascinated with end times prophecy for years. I am now more fascinated with the Old Testament prophets. I remember sitting with a small group in a 7 week session on Christ. The question was asked, does God ever get angry. Yes. I am glad that He loves and forgives. This poem is a continuation of the last poem in God’s Rhyme, Broken Hearted. I wrote it on Dec. 30, 2014. When I finished the poem, God said that the book was done. I know now it was only the beginning.
WE WERE BORN IN BETHLEHEM, God’s Rhyme, pg. 9, ©2019
We are the children of the Father of Abraham,
children dispersed to all the nations
We are the children of the Father of Moses
who led his people from captivity
We are the children of the Father spoken of
in the books of the Old Testament
We are the children of our fathers and
mothers and generations that came before.
We are God’s children
Both Gentile and Jew
Through His death and resurrection
And the promise of God’s covenant
We are God’s children
We have been chosen
Whether it is by His saving grace
Or a promise to an ancient race
We are God’s children
His face on this earth
As the ancient scriptures did foretell
Covenants old and covenants new
We are God’s children
And so we must live
Praising Him with words ever so bold
Singing songs and hymns both new and old
We are the children of the Father of Abraham,
children dispersed to all the nations
We are the children of the Father of Moses
who led his people from captivity
We are the children of the Father spoken of
in the books of the Old Testament
We are the children of our fathers and
mothers and generations that came before
next one written in late 1970s initially submitted in a manuscript, The Jesus Poems
BIRTHRIGHT, God’s Rhyme, pg. 16, ©2019
“And she brought forth her first born son,
and wrapped him in swaddling clothes,
and laid him in a manger; because
there was no room for them in the inn.” Luke 2:7, Amplified
Our birthright to Heaven
born in a manger;
no room in the inn
among life’s strangers.
The new born King
lay in the stable straw
while the Pharisees
taught what they knew as law.
No room in men’s hearts
for His teaching of love
and the spirit He possessed
like that of a dove.
Rejected by most
in His short human life;
had they only known
He could rid them of strife.
No room in the inn
when our Savior was born,
no room for Him now
in this world that’s so torn.
Was it prophesy then
in a confusing time
that hearts are still not open
at the end of the line?
Are our lives so full
as He seeks a room?
He’s at the door,
please open it soon.
OUR BEGINNING OF FOREVER , God Still Rhymes, pg. 101 ©2019
The Christmas story
tells of God’s glory.
It is a story of a gift,
a story of his grace,
of his loving embrace.
The words
have been heard,
our hearts stirred
by a star
and shepherds,
the three kings
and a child’s birth,
who we are
through his words,
voices that sing
throughout the earth.
The Holiday Season
leading to a holy day,
we are the reason
for the ransom he did pay.
The birth of our salvation
in this baby Jesus.
In a world of starvation,
believing, he feeds us.
Do we deserve joy,
the birth of this baby boy?
Yes, if we have believed
and have not been deceived.
Yes, through God’s grace
we feel his embrace.
The Alpha and the Omega,
the beginning and the end,
Just as he was with God before time.
we can be with Jesus beyond the end.
Through his birth we can be born again.
Through his death we are forgiven.
And through his resurrection
We are a new creation.
Wherever you are in your race
accept the gift of God’s grace.
May God’s blessings be with
you this Christmas season.
May your New Year be filled
with God’s rhymes.
Reflection on The Beginning of Forever
This was our 2015 Christmas card. Three previous years are in “God’s Rhyme” titled “The Christmas Progression.”
How about couple of unplanned poems . . .
COMMUNION OF THE CHURCH, pg. 60, God Still Rhymes, ©2019
I saw him lurch.
Was he late
because he ate?
Maybe we’ll see
what will be
when set free,
free from this world,
free from ourselves.
So off we go
to celebrate,
never late.
He is alive
so we do strive.
As members of his body
we must be fed
so we are led
to communion
with God’s community.
POEMS ABOUT YOU, pg. 99, Living In God’s Rhyme, ©2018
I no longer have to write poems about you
you are my poetry
no more searching for rhymes
and worrying about the lines
in you I find
my words are to be spoken
the pen shant be broken
over any parchment
nor will the mind hinder the heart
as I have found
I no longer have to write
poems about you
you are all the poetry
that’s been pent up inside of me
you are my rhyme
For my wife Mary Lou, a blessing from God.
Closing Prayer
If you give
Him the times
As you live
His word rhymes
And don’t forget: We are the Kings kids and you will never get rid of us because we are His with Jesus.
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