44, 5-4, REVISED 2, SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS, updated 2/15/22 (Scheduled 2/18/22 )
Today we have the oldest Carter brother joining us. Listeners and viewers, meet our brother Paul. We asked Paul to join us to help us improve on the podcast. Paul will be directing today’s show. Hopefully he will help us eliminate the ums and ahs and pauses we have become infamous for.
Dave explains Paul’s role as podcast director
Let’s start with a poem from God Still Rhymes
CRASHING WAVES (pg. 75)
Like waves crashing upon a barren shore
Your love so overwhelms me.
Your high tide through grace does overcome my lows,
Calming the stormy sea.
The waves crash but you do not roar.
Your love engulfs me
As from your grace your love, it flows,
A quiet love I can see.
Let those who have eyes see.
Let those who have ears hear.
With you, when I hear, I see,
Just as when I see, I hear.
To listen is to see
And to see is to hear.
Yes, you have washed me,
Cleansed me as I sinned.
And now in me you see
Your mighty calming wind.
So upon the waters I might walk,
I do now walk in faith, not in fear.
There is no fear as I hear you talk,
Walking as we talk now without tears.
Discussion:
Well Paul, how did I do?
I was going to say brother, but I only wanted one answer, not two.
Director response: do you not want your brothers to answer your question? Give us a chance to see who has a quicker response time, ok.
Discussion:
OK, hopefully this one will be easy to read. From God Still Rhymes, pg. 43 . . .
I WAS JUST THINKING
I was just thinking
about what you said the other day
do you remember what it was
I didn’t think that you would
so I forgot too
Director Cut: What was that about and how does is fit in with the podcast theme?
Tim: let me read the reflection from the book.
Reflection on I Was Just Thinking
While searching through the archives I came across this piece of nonsense. It reminded me of something I had written for the kids a few years ago, which was many years after this was written. I wrote a book titled “I Can’t Remember the Things I Forgot.” I got reactions from, “what’s this?” to “I get it,” to “you’re such a dork,” and finally a couple of, “ . . .”
I’ve read this next one before. It wasn’t written with a message for Christians, but I think it is there.
Again, from God Still Rhymes, this one is on pg. 34.
Director Cut: All those unpublished poems you have talked about and your are repeating poems.
BACK TO NORMAL
a storm came passing thru today
took the roof right off the barn
didn’t really do nobody no harm
’cept nobody’s got nothin’ to say
now ain’t that the problem
the cat’s done gone got their tongues
probably had them
since they was all jus’ young
Director Cut & Discussion of Kermit’s reading abilities
You said you were going to read the poem.
they all done swallowed their words
what from eatin’ that there alphabet soup
they done swallowed ev’ry letter
so’s they can’t make no rhymes
when they talk they don’t use
them punctiation marks and such
them’s what adds flavor
to any kind of talk or conversatin’
there ain’t no meaning without an exclamation point
ain’t no use in pointin’ that finger either far as I can say
if ya ain’t talkin’ with yer heart
might as well jus’ keep yer hands in your pockets
Director Cut: Are you sure you want to continue?
if ya ain’t got no capital
ya can’t begin to state yer case
there ain’t no run on sentence
where I can see yer smilin’ face
can’t feel yer pain
can’t answer no questions
don’t know if them’s tears
or just the fallin’ rain
that storm that came thru today
yeah, it took the roof off the barn
an’ I think it got yer writin’ desk
‘cause ya seem to have lost yer letters
Not much else to say except maybe . . .
did you see the storm as it passed through
or is still storming and you just don’t see it?
Or is it that if you don’t talk about it,
it didn’t pass over you, what is one to do?
Maybe you do know what to do,
you just don’t want to.
This is the world we live in,
too many not noticing the storm.
Discussion:
Dave introduces the southern pastor.
Tim explains Kermit, the reader of the poem.
Paul asks about the rumor of more voices.
OK let’s get serious or some word like that.
Discussion: Croswell, the lumber yard, Paul’s bicycle basket, moving to Port Huron.
Our phone number in Croswell, buying Paul’s tick for the Maxine Theater, Dave graduating from being transported in a bicycle basket to a automobile.
The next two poems are from Dirty Socks, a fictional autobiography written for my family for Christmas of 2012.
A SMALL TOWN BOY
little boys with little soldier toys
Tonka trucks that never get stuck
bicycles for riding
tree forts for hiding
throwing baseballs in summer
and snowballs in winter
the real heroes were baseball players
yeah, them and dragon slayers
sure, there was school and chores
homework to do and grass to mow
but the days were fun
whether rain, snow or sun
THE MOVE
it’s moving day, boxes to pack
nothing to say, no turning back
there are no memories until you’re gone
leaving behind a home left all alone
the moving van, really a big truck
will find your new home with any luck
oh sure, they have directions & a map
you hope no one makes fun of your baseball cap
Discussion:
And this one from the very last written page in God Still Rhymes . . .
Also by Tim Carter – God’s Rhyme
Read about the beginning of the journey from love through birthright, the carpenter’s son, somehow, God’s rhyme, the every man, touching the heart of God, sixteen days in Hunter’s House.
You are love
and how I love you,
you, Jesus are love I can be.
Rejected by most
in his short human life.
He has created
in each of us
by the nails.
He understood
that when a mother
loves an alcoholic
you pray.
Director Cut: This makes no sense. There is no title and even though the words are
meaningful, they don’t necessarily form a consistent stream of thought.
She’s always had your heart,
She always will, your little girl.
The simple oddity of life
is God’s rhyme.
He needs us as much as we need him,
by reaching out he makes us stronger.
The awesome privilege by helping the orphan . . ,
of touching, yes touching, the heart of God.
You who are weary from the day’s race,
Come and rest in his amazing grace.
How about a couple of unread cell phone poems to end on a spirit filled note.
BLESSED BY FRIENDS
I have many friends, most I’ve never met
In person, yet I am still in their debt.
They have given me inspiration,
And relieved my desperation,
By the words they have spoken,
By their listening when I was broken.
They have read the lines,
The words that are mine,
And kept reading the many times
I kept writing and sharing the rhymes.
The thoughts they have shared
Lifts my spirit knowing they cared
Enough to let me know
Of the seed I perhaps did sow.
Through all of this it is God who is praised,
And Jesus, who from death he raised
To give me the times
To write His rhymes.
May God bless and keep you all in His embrace.
8/21/2021, tcarter
THOUGHTS AFTER CHURCH
I am no longer fearful of living in fear,
No longer from my eye wiping away a tear.
It is not only that the Holy Spirit of God is near,
It is that His Spirit is always, yes always, here.
Dear Father,
I pray that every day,
As again I start
I open my heart
So what I see
Is who I can be,
Not as one
But with Your Son,
My savior Jesus.
And may Your word, I hear it
Following the Holy Spirit.
2/6/2022, tcarter
Closing thoughts:
One last poem written as I was waiting to record this podcast.
WAITING FOR THE WORDS
(while waiting to record)
Sitting and waiting,
Thinking and relating
Thoughts of another time
To make this night rhyme.
So here I sit
Wanting to quit,
When I hear a voice,
“Son, it is your choice”
“You’ve heard
My word.
You know what I say.
Pray and you’ll find a way.”
“There is always a rhyme
If you give your time
To share with another.
A sister or brother.”
“So, there,
Now share,
And you will
Not be still.”
2/15/2022, tcarter
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 for we are His with Jesus.”
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