BEAUTIFUL BATTLE

Too long I tried within my sin

To stop the world’s beleaguering spin;

But it is not I who has that power,

Rather it is the Christ,

His moment, His hour

That overcomes

Our tendency to cower

Until we succeed and

In the end the battle we win.

 

Fight! Most of all for your freedom;

Learn! What freedom really means;

Because most times it is accepting

The suffering and the cross

And not what our desire’s license seems;

Wean yourself! From everything

That is not Spirit or Truth;

Beauty is within your soul’s eye;

The only good that lasts as Eternity lives

While the physical world

Withers and dies.

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GOOD JOB

Every choice is conflict;

Every one is a cross;

Why agonize over

Suffering and loss?

The only good

Is giving in

To the one, true God,

Our Creator,

Our Savior,

The Boss.

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CONFUSION IS OKAY

Today I am thinking

All my thoughts are not so bad;

I have lost the persecution sense

That would make me mad or sad.

Inside out now,

In the spirit, I am clad

And not ashamed

Of my sin or

Of the Christ

Who saved me;

I have been had

But today I am.

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MORE THAN ART

What can I say

With tongue or pen

That has not been said before?

My God,

Now even in my art,

You would have me think

I am poor;

And would need my discipline decry,

Renounce or hence abjure.

 

But in its place You must agree

There should be something else in store;

That I would find

To give Your Love

To others still much more;

Or else I feel I am all done

And cannot long endure.

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