Episode 7 Show Notes
RANDOM THOUGHTS FROM A GREEN PAPER NAPKIN HOLDER
How odd our God may seem in the days we dream,
Not odd in the ways we know, nor in what he does, no.
There are times when he gives us his rhymes,
Those occasional times we find that he has opened our mind.
A view from a window,
A word from a friend,
The shape of a shadow,
May it never end.
Out of nowhere we suddenly must share
The rhyme he gave us, as he did with Jesus.
The thought of what we ought,
No, must do because of his trust.
It may be a simple embrace putting a smile on a face
Or proclaiming a word that someone has not heard.
It may just be a smile for the one who for so many miles
has walked through the rain with teardrops of pain.
Or maybe it is for the holder of the napkin while eating a meal,
A note from God that shows his love and desire to heal.
For me it was this as I ate with friends an evening meal:
“God puts people in your life
When you need them.
For that we are thankful.
However, we always need
To also put God in our lives”
When we eat, when we play, when we pray
At all times if we listen God has something to say.
He finished his words with this reminder to me:
“I walk a fine line
Knowing the sign
When I go
That I know”
Reflection on Thoughts from a Green Paper Napkin Holder
We were having dinner with a group of friends and I had some thoughts about poems. I wrote them down on the paper napkin holder. This poem is the result of my wandering mind. I have been told since writing this that it is not a holder but a ring, that paper wrapping around the napkin wrapped silverware in restaurants.
© 2018, Living In God’s Rhyme, Tim Carter
There is more in Tales From the Raven in God Still Rhymes on this group of friends.
OUT OF THE CLOSET
I opened the closet door,
I could hide there no more.
The clothing I had worn
Now was tattered and torn,
Shaken to my very core
Renewed I was reborn.
No more hiding.
Now deciding
I could no longer hide
The life I had tried,
So much living
Without giving,
Without thought
Each day fought.
I opened the door
And found there was more
Than my heart could store,
With His love I was no longer poor.
I no longer hide from myself.
I did see the need for His help.
And I can no longer hide from you,
No matter what I say or do.
No I cannot,
I opened the door
Of the dusty
Locked closet
Where rags
Were torn
And thrown
Around.
A knock,
The door opened,
A breath of fresh air.
Born again, now His heir.
Now clothed in His grace,
Not living at the world’s pace,
I can now run the race
Refreshed as I see His face.
The face of my birth;
Can I help you open the door,
Help you up off the floor
So that you may find your worth.
© 2019, God Still Rhymes, Tim Carter
THE KING AND THE PURSE
The King was walking the halls
talking to pictures on faces and the walls
waiting to make or take a phone call
hoping the door wouldn’t close on the stall
His discourse, he would rehearse
on one then another for better or worse
those he met would look for the hearse
but all this changed when he saw her purse
“What a lovely purse,” he did regally say
on another sterile disordinary day
“May I help you,” he asked, “on your way?”
it was the 2nd month after May
(maybe)
Spring like with flowers
born in an April shower
she visited for what seemed like hours
purse in hand with the King’s jester
Oh, she did
do that
for she loved
that funny
odd jester
& had
only met
the King
that day
in the hall
In 2005 I was hospitalized for severe depression, at least that was the diagnosis. I had lost a job and was stuck in a new job I didn’t like. Add that to the fact that I had let pride rule me in my work and that led me further from God, and there I was, quarantined from the life I had been living.
One of the patients I befriended met noticed when my wife visited. He always commented on her purse. He was the king of his world and I had been Mary Lou’s jester for so many years. This helped me accept where I had been and where I needed to go.
© 2019, God Still Rhymes, Tim Carter
There may be more on this in a 6 page poem from Living In God’s Rhyme, Maybe . . .
Let the word (spoken by) the Christ, the Messiah,
have its home (in your hearts and minds) and
dwell in you in (all its) richness, as you teach
and admonish and train one another in all insight
and intelligence and wisdom (in spiritual things
and sing) psalms and spiritual songs, making
melody to God with (His) grace in your hearts.”
Colossians 3:16 Amplified
MAKE MELODY TO GOD
We sing Your Word
which we have heard
with our ears
throughout the years.
We sing
& the words ring
of what You have done
thru Jesus Your son.
Psalms & hymns
sung of Him
Whose life is praised,
from death he was raised.
Living
for years
knowing
life’s fears
crying
hurt tears
Then,
believing
without sight
accepting
now the light
living
thru His might.
We sing even more
of His glorious splendor,
of the life He has given
unlocking the gates to Heaven.
Psalms, hymns & spiritual songs
of His righting our wrongs,
we sing of His glory
that all may hear His story.
May our living be a melody
to God & His Son’s body.
May we sing with His grace
In our hearts in faith.
© 2019, God’s Rhyme, Tim Carter
This is one of the cell phone notes app poems. I started out wanting the rhymes, but also knew where it had to go before the end.
THE DAY HAS COME
The commission
Of omission
The distraction
Of subtraction
The commission
Of of addition
The infraction
Of inaction
Is not mathematical
It is grammatical
The changing memes
More than it seems
Truth to lies
The past cries
Change defies
Those once wise
I hear it said
It is what it is
No longer fed
It was what it was
What is it today
For this I do pray
To know what is true
From lies shaded hue
On bended knee
For all to see
My hands I raise
As God I praise
5/20/20, tcarter
I might consider more of the cell phone note app poems if they weren’t more political ad the state of our nation today.
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