Christian poetry
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Learning to Love: Day 18
The Guitar I have a set of stringsThat I pick and play along,And if I pick and play along enoughIt turns into a song. I have a melody at heartThat molds into my hand.I read the notes across the pageUpon… Continue reading
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Learning to Love: Day 17
Dreams Daydreams never grow oldNo matter how many times toldFrom generation to generationThrough stories of the ideal.I’m waiting for its incarnationSo my dreams can become real,But if there be no good in themIn the end God can see,Then let them… Continue reading
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Learning to Love: Day 16:
Easter I saw myselfUgly, bleeding, upward pleading,Finding no reply–No comfort, no rescue, left to die.I looked again and it was Him.So when I kneel before the throneThe Father looks at meAnd sees HimWho paid sin’s debt for me. Love has… Continue reading
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Learning to Love: Day 14
The Master Gardener My God’s the Master GardenerWho created the world.He fancied flowers, said His say,By which His dreams unfurled.The grasses grew, the bushes bloomed,The Spirit moved the leaves.The Gardener fathered the fruitAnd He supplied the seeds. The spot where… Continue reading
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Learning to Love: Day 13
Pilgrimage Archaeology He dug in the earth; troweled, plowedAnd troweled until the earth turned raw, hot,Until the ground grew red and growled,Disturbed ’til he found what he sought. He dug ’til his eyes turned stone-dry,His own hands chapped and cracked… Continue reading
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Learning to Love: Day 12
When You Seek God When you seek God with your whole heartFor what you want to know,He gives no stone in place of bread.What you ask, He will show.Do not inquire of rocks for help.They are not self-aware.Do not consult… Continue reading
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Learning to Love: Day 11
Constancy and Change When the sun’s fire pounds on the earthThen rises back from the roadAs I wipe sweat from my brow, When the cicadas play their fiddlesIn the dewy grassAfter dusk has arrived,I seek You.When the sand squirms between… Continue reading
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Learning to Love: Day 10
Resurrection Had you not lived the perfect lifeTo die for our sins through Your strifeThen risen from the dead,Oh where would mankind be instead?Every deed and everything would beNothing more than vanity.No sun nor moon in its full scopeWould we… Continue reading
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Learning to Love: Day 9
Romans 8:31 When daily troubles flood my lifeRemind me of Your deeds,And show me Your sweet promises.You are all I need.When gales and winds blow through this world,Teach me flexibilitySo I can bend and may not break,Because You are all… Continue reading
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Learning to Love: Day 8
Sanctification The Lord is glorious and mightyShining on His holy hill.He is all-powerful and sovereign.Each of His words He will fulfill.Nothing escapes His divine knowledge.No one can withstand His will.Let every facet of my beingBe refined by Your holy fire.Test… Continue reading
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