Sunday, September 18, 2022

The Power Of A Name

 Hearts are humbled

to the sounds of hymns.


Your favorite verses

resonate as the movement

of grace falls around us.


The ministry of music

makes a wave among

the curious contender.


Bless the best kept

secrets of sound, 

the lingering spirits

the soul has found.

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Fourteen After

Welcome sinners

and hide

in the love

of every blessing.


Let changing hearts grow

from fallen chains.


Rejoice in finding

the wandering sheep,

focus on the shepherds' keep.


The never lost flock-

filled with the glory

of God’s reach.


Within his reign above

is bounty and endless love.

Sunday, September 4, 2022

Shotgun

 Why is your pain so special?


To kill

     abuse

         use until you choose to die

    take a life

 suffer alone

                  push until they fall away

love them so much they cannot stay.


           Raise your gun to my dismay

                    your voice

                             hand 

                             price of my life.


Pride too big to swallow

             and you wallow

                in your prison cell

where your fate is your shell. 

The Widow's Song

 With God be her glory,

where fellowship,

a joy divine,

distracts her

from her healing pain.


Run to the church

and pray your debts

to the Almighty.


Dedicate your hope

to build on nothing less

than mournful holiness. 


Gather at His Humble Hands

to hold her crumbling heart.


A beautiful word

as her voice carries

in this place of thinning faith. 


The weeping widow

spider spins a web

of her soul's sincerest desires.


Then shares the bread

of new loneliness.