M D Haiku

selfless and caring

to the helpless and growing

showing the way home

RWOz2

Take the Open Door

Looking for God’s will?
And wondering still?
Take the open door.

With sin closing in
Begin with a win
Take the open door.

What He opens no one
Can close
What He closes no one 
Can open.

Whichever it is
’Tis His provision.

RWOz2

Righteousness

Righteousness
Is the reward
That stays 
The sword

We have none
Of our own
But yearn for what
You have sworn
To make our joy complete
Under heaven.

RWOz2

We Are His Valentines

On this day 
Show me someone
To show them Your love
On this day.

On this day
Show me the one
With room in his heart
For You this day.

RWOz2

Can You Tell Me

Can you tell
Me where to
Find Him

Where to look
Where to seek
Where to feel
Again

With all my heart
With all my soul
With all my strength
With all my mind
So it says

He is not far
From
Each one of us

But we
Can be
Far
From
Him

RWOz2

Love Invites

On the page 
It’s writ large

His design 
Is on you
Free of charge

From the depth
Of His heart
He invites you

Answer His call
He is the Master
The servant of all.

RWOz2

The Mockery of Falling Leaves

Their rustling skirts 
Had quieted
Wherein before
They’d rioted
Across the 
Concrete drive

There I’d done it
Seized the chance
After the wind 
Had ceased its dance
Across the
Concrete drive

I’d applied some
Wind of my own
A regular
Hand held cyclone
Across the
Concrete drive

Now perfectly
Still and pristine
One might adjudge
“To the bone clean”
Across the
Concrete drive

But one need only
Turn his back
There’ll be swirling 
Leaves of no lack
Across the
Concrete drive

Drifting down with a
Clattering crackle
Triumphing o’er me
With a soft cackle
Filling the
Concrete drive.

RWOz2

Contemplating the Abyss

Contemplating
The abyss
Is anything simpler
Than this?
Putting together
Endless lists
Of things that may
Or might go wrong

Thinking too much
And losing sleep
Things seeming such
Your peace won’t keep
At straws you clutch
And take the leap
When hope’s at bay
You don’t belong

At end of day
Can you croak the song?

RWOz2

His Mercy Waits

His mercy waits
While we’re sleeping
His mercy waits
Upon our waking
And follows us
Throughout the day

In it we move
In it we live
In it we have
Our being

When He calls
Do not turn away
For the day will come
At the end of days
If you have not come 
He will turn away.

RWOz2

Autonomy

Autonomy
The way
I got to be
It’s what I want
And want it now
Shellfish me
Not how I ought
Or should Be

Perchance tomorrow
Will end in sorrow
Look for the Godly kind
And not the worldly rind
Feasting on husks
And castoffs of your lust.

RWOz2