25, Season Episode 5 - SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS (10/8/21)
I would like to apologize for a mistake I made in last week’s podcast. When talking about David and the Psalms, I said he earned his salvation. The did not earn it, he prayed to live in God’s salvation. It is only by God’s grace we find salvation. Forgive me for my mis-statement.
Again this week I m not sure where this one is going. 4 poems from Living In God’s Rhyme (©2017 by Tim Carter). Again the common thread is God and Jesus. That is more than good enough. We’ll just follow the Spirit where He leads.
From Living In God’s Rhyme, pg. 29
MONDAY MORNING THE NIGHT BEFORE
There is nothing to say
Nothing new in any way
Except the thunder I hear
Slowly as it moves near
There is one difference I have noticed
Since putting letters together that form the words
Well now two
I have misplaced the punctuation
And one line is too long
But through it all,
On this day I still hear
His voice, his call.
He is still, as always, here.
Always and forever
Includes tomorrow,
Knowing the he will never
Leave me in my sorrow.
Another day to be in his presence
Another hour to be thankful
That through his grace my penance,
He has taken from me, it is paid in full.
So, I will awake in the morning,
To the rising Son.
There will be no mourning,
The battle he has won.
The only fear I will know
Is the awesome reverence
That by his holiness I must show
To God for taking my repentance.
Monday morning’s prayer is
That all my desires
Are that I live wanting what is his,
His love for me is all I desire.
On pg. 34
THE RHYME OF GOD, THE RHYME OF ME
There may be no rhymes
As in other times.
But it is not that the Lord
Has struck a lost chord.
(if he did it would be sung
as every church bell was rung)
His rhyme is his word,
The scriptures we read
Through which he plants the seed,
With hope that we have heard.
It is through his grace
That we see his face
In those we meet
And those we greet.
If we believe,
In us lives his rhyme
Forever in time.
He will not deceive.
Then I decided to write
About something right,
But got it wrong
Because it was me,
Me, just me, alone.
I can wander in this world,
Oblivious to all that is good.
I can try by myself
To lift myself up,
Up above the
Hustle without
The bustle,
And fail
Because the bustle
Of this world
Is the hustle
That tells me
All I see
Is all I need.
Then I awake from what I hope was a dream,
Hoping that all is not what it seemed.
I look in the mirror and see
The reflection of what I used to be.
What I used to be before
My Savior redeemed me,
Made me righteous in his eyes,
The eyes of his Father in Heaven above.
Every moment of every day I felt his love.
A love for me and those who surround
My life, who have oft times run aground.
I pray that what I dream
Is never real.
I pray that what may seem
Somewhat surreal
Is nothing more than a bad dream
From a bad movie scene.
As I live I pray that temptation
I turn over to my Savior
Who has conquered my sin
No matter where I’ve been.
When I turn my back
I lose my sight
Of what is wrong
And who is right.
May I focus my eyes,
The eyes of my soul,
So that to my sin I die.
He has mended the hole.
Reflection on The Rhyme of God, the Rhyme of Me
Someone once asked me at a book signing where the name God’s Rhyme came from for the first book. From Him I said, He is the Rhyme. Later I realized that I also had a poem in the book with that title. What a memory!
On pg. 47
HAVE WE SEEN, HAVE WE HEARD, ARE WE HEALED
“Though seeing, they do not see,
though hearing they do not hear or
understand.
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah;
You will be ever hearing but never
understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
For this people’s heart has become
calloused;
They hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them,”
Matthew 13: 13-15
The heart keeps the body alive
Pumping blood through our veins
So in living we might thrive,
We might live without bodily pains.
But when calloused our heart becomes,
We seek wealth
Instead of health.
Our days become totals of our sums.
Our hearing, our sight
Do not hear or see the fight
As we run from the light
Into darkness.
This world has forsaken the light.
Living with our adulterous gods of money and sin,
Never knowing what should be right,
Never knowing that tomorrow we may not win.
We believe that the easy road leads to pleasure
As we follow our heart to find the treasure,
The satisfaction of believing we are good,
Not knowing we never really understood.
Have we heard someone speak
That as mere mortals we are weak?
Has someone ever taken our hand
And lifted us up to stand?
Has anyone asked you to listen, to look
At your yesterdays and todays to see what you took,
To see that we have no gain
For what we cause in a world of pain?
Someone please shout,
Shout the world about
About God’s saving grace
As we have we run this race.
Be healed,
Your fate sealed
By believing
And receiving
The Son
Of the one
And only God
Who loves us all.
Please,
Hear His call.
Reflection on Have We Seen, Have We Heard, Are We Healed”
Near the end of God’s Rhyme I noticed that the poetry was changing. There was more of the pain we cause God. I should correct that, more of the pain I cause God. It culminated with the last poem I wrote for the book, Broken Hearted. It was about how throughout Old Testament and New Testament history we have broken God’s heart. I think the God Still Rhymes has that in it also. In writing the third book I am finding that I am being led to continue that theme, that and the need for God in our lives, so our hearts will not be broken at the end of our days.
We read the following poem on Episode 8 of Season 1. There must have been something or someone that led me to use the poem again on this episode. Let’s see if we can figure it out. It is on pg. 69
2 TIMOTHY 4:2
“Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season;
correct, rebuke and encourage – with great patience
and careful instruction.”
The word we are to preach,
In and out of season.
This command given to each
Believer for a reason.
We are not all preachers
And certainly not teachers.
But we are all believers
Overcoming deceivers.
If we are to preach the word,
We have to not only read the word,
We have to desire the need
To acknowledge what we read
Is indeed his plan
For a fallen man.
We must hunger for his word,
We must desire to know him,
We must listen to what we have heard,
We must want to do more that sing a hymn.
So we read, we pray,
Asking to understand
What we should say
To obey your command.
Ask God to put in your heart
A desire to live in his embrace
So that you may open a heart
Of someone lost in the race.
If we love God, we will follow him to the ends of the earth.
It is only through him and the sacrifice of his Son,
Through his unending grace that we find our worth.
May we show others the way before the day is done.
Thank you Lord.
Thank you Jesus
For who you are
For all you do.
more noncents
SLEEPLESS IN . . . , no not Seattle
Can’t sleep
So I’ll keep
On writing
Stop the fighting
The tossing and turning
And constant yearning
To fall asleep
Without a peep.
It’s like a run on sentence
Without ending, period
Words will rhyme
Why not time
That’s a question
Of my hesitation
To lay my head
Upon my bed
And there the sentence ends.
Oh my,
Oh why
Does my brain not sends,
Plural for more than once,
Understanding to me?
I have no pillow that I can see!
There it is on the floor
By the dresser drawer.
Must have been in a fight
Sometime earlier in the night.
Now I can lay my head
On the pillow on the bed.
Good night and sweet dreams I wish for myself. (It’s cloudy so I can’t wish upon a star.)
That’s enough!
Don’t make another peep!
It isn’t tough.
Close your eyes and go to sleep!
Do it now!!!!
Closing Prayer
If you give
Him the times
As you live
His word rhymes
We are the King’s kids and you will never get rid of us because we are His with Jesus.
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