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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Witness Stone

Set up the ebenezer
Let it never more be moved
Set it up beside the place
Where it all occurred

So come the future
When you pass it by
You will remember
To follow and to serve

From that time forward
‘Neath the open sky
A witness twixt you and
The omnipresent eye.

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Humble Exchange

Clinging to your troubles
Closed fisted and closed minded
Squinting to avoid the pain

Sense of guilt
Meets pardoning grace
Again and again

Can you be humble?
Will you take
The exchange?

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“The more burdens we put on His shoulders, the more precious will He be to us.”

— Charles Spurgeon

You See to It

Spotless blood betrayed
Fear increased
And not allayed
And those who paid
Made sure that
Upon the other
The guilt remained

‘You see to it’
Is what they said.

Feckless Pilate
Fearing the crowd
Which threatened riot
Dunked his hands
In the water bowl
As for guilt 
He denied it

‘You see to it”
Is what he said.

Under the light of truth
Do you become defiant?
Or do you change tack
And become compliant?

“Come and see” 
Is what He tells us.

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Holy Wonder

Ripple on the water
Streak across the sky
Solid weight of Glory
Thereafter in mind’s eye
Along the mystic chords
A glimpse of fleeting grace
How I long to see
My loving Savior’s face.

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The Place Where Glory Dwells

Do you know the place
where Glory dwells?
Can you help me find 
the way?

Look for
a holy hill
But know
Only the righteous 
there may stand
before the One
Who sees

Can I muster
the substance
to stand 
in His sight
and
in His light
to see light?

Only if He aids me.

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beauty comes

why is it 
when we see
a picture
perfect sky

something deep
within us
says that 
that is beauty

it pulls
us outside
ourselves

and engenders 
a longing
for more

when angels
herald
the birth 
foretold

and glory
fills the skies
would we see
beauty otherwise

without eyes born new
He will have 
no form
to attract you

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