Waking Up With Angels
It’s easy to forget what it is like to wake up with angels. – even when you are still living with them.
Perhaps it’s the fires that we all go through – the soot and the grime – the smell of smoke. The breaking.
When you have seen your angel after [...]
Sophistication
Do you mean to tell me that you are not a sophisticate? You are not “in”?
And what does it mean to be a sophisticate? – it might be worth knowing since it is so highly sought after in our developing world – especially in Western culture.
Like the serpent of Eden – [...]
Fool for Christ
Fool enough to follow
Fool enough to believe
Fool enough to take a stand
Fool enough to speak up
Fool enough to ask
Fool enough to listen
Fool enough to trust His Word
Fool enough to to play the fool
For all the fools who won’t
Fool enough to see the foolishness
Of all the great accomplishments of men
To watch the river carry
All [...]
Refugees
Bowing their heads as they go
Shoulders drooped
Discouraged
Tattered
Empty and stressed
Looking for something to save them
Longing for peace
Longing for rest
Battling out of the swift pollution
Crawling up on the shore
Bound for chains and slavery
Bound to suffer more
If only I could save them
There’s no choice but passing on
The time of escape from the horror
Slipped away and is gone
Men and [...]
The Fool
Twas then that I began
To play the fool
For all reason was abandoned
Good and Evil were embraced
So answer not the fool
Lest thou be just like him
For folly has an end
As the darkness yields to dawn
The sun will rise
The seeds will grow
We’ll reap a mighty harvest
Then we will be moving on
A fool to be a pilgrim?
You’re [...]
Before we go to War
Identify your Enemy. And then take some time to think. – or you may very well arrive in a situation you did not bargain for – and for which there is little if any remedy.
Yes – get your brightest
Gather here your best
Waste their substance on misery and
Poverty, the wages [...]
We Are not Saved
The Harvest is ended, the summer
Is past
And we are not saved
The party is over
The fight has begun
And we are not saved
The Cities come crashing
And tumbling down
The stench lingers
As it descends
Reach out and touch them
Lift them and heal them
And carry them home in your arms
We are not saved
We are [...]
Songs……, the songs of the soul……, – are inherent. We all sing, even the Orcs.
In the Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien describes their songs in these words, “Sam heard a burst of hoarse singing, blaring of horns and banging of gongs, a hideous clamour…”
A hideous clamour, indeed.
And of what do we [...]
The mundane, the profound, and the profane
The Mundane
Webster says this about the mundane:
Etymology: Middle English mondeyne, from Anglo-French mundain, from Late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus world
1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of the world
2 : characterized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary : COMMONPLACE <the mundane concerns of day-to-day life>
synonym see [...]
