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Squinting…through the morning mist.

 

Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father…There is no shadow of turning with Thee.

 

Lord I see You…but not clearly.

 

Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not…As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.

 

Will it be long Lord…before the weather lifts?

 

Great is Thy faithfulness, Great is Thy faithfulness…Morning by morning new mercies I see.

 

Lord help this dark city…until the sun shines bright.

All I have needed Thy hand hath provided…Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

 

Inspired by...1 Corinthians 13:12…Matthew 5:14...Thomas Chisholm

 

103

 

 

 

103

 

Lord in all Your remembering…can you still forget?

 

You know my frame…that I am but dust.

 

Forget when I didn’t…

                         bow down…

                                     trust in…

                                            hold on…

                                                     step out…

                                                               lift my eyes to the hills.

 

Remember my frame…

                      how little I can do…

                                       how little I can bear…

                                                           covered much in blood.

 

Nail pierced hands…my only defense.

 

50 years of pain…come sweet Jubilee!

           

 

Inspired by...Psalm 103..."forgetting" as a part of memory

 

 

                                                                  

Chasm

Chasm

Levi’s 29…your treasure here on earth.

You see my light skin…and know exactly who I am.

You…mock me.

You…beat me.

You…reject me.

I…still prayed for you as you leave for church.

Now you ask me…to fetch you a cool drink.

Monkey uncommon up…Massa?

Believe…in Him who raises from the dead.

Inspired by...Ft. Gaines, Georgia…Luke 16:19-31…Monkey Uncommon Up Cartoon

Shiloh

 

 

Shiloh

Lost…on the battlefield.

Hungry…thirsty…bleeding…defeated.

It was night…all night forever.

Flashes of lightning…Spring soil saturated in blood.

God…do You hear their cries?

Darkness...tries to hide the Light.

Water…water…water…God!

He heard their cries…and sent the rain.

The hammer still ringing…they saw the Light.

Inspired by...Civil War-Battle of Shiloh...The God-Man Shiloh (Genesis 49:10)...Isaac Watts

Occupy

Occupy

 

Bills to pay…kids in college…underwater mortgage…rising unemployment…corporate greed.

 

Is it the 1%...are they to blame?

 

We are the 99…march…shout…occupy!

 

 Oh… We rain on Wall Street…but God is The Consuming Fire.

 

Pride…excess…leisure…the sins of Sodom.

 

We the 99…hurling fire and brimstone on those we blame…have failed.

 

Haughty…we take God into our own hands…occupy!

 

God’s whisper…where is my church?

 

 Feed the hungry…

               clothe the poor…

                              help the widow…

                                             remember the prisoner…

                                                       
                                                                  suffer not the little children...

 

 

 

 

Come Lord…occupy our hearts!

 

 

Inspired by...Occupy Wall Street…Ezekiel 16:49-50…Hebrews 13:1-6…Luke 18:16


Government doing what the church has failed to do...

"American Trade"

"American Trade"

We come to offer you..a trade.

Demands of the trade!

Give me your black, brown, yellow...and keep your country.

Give me your welfare queens, lazy Mexicans, recalcitrant Indians...and keep your power.

Give me your underclass, immigrants, homeless...and keep your unlimited wealth.

Give me your incarcerated, orphans, widows...and keep your comfort.

We come to give you what you want...your white country...your white government...your white church.

We come...to cleanse you of your sin.

American response...

We "accept" your offer...but, who do we blame now?

 

  

Inspired by..."War of the Worlds"...Racism...Victimization...Paternalism...Galatians 3:26-28

1966

 

 

1966

 

What you saw…I want to know…can you still smell it?

 

Fried catfish…watermelon…love.

 

Living life…in the middle of it all.

 

Kelly Settlement…there in a vision.

 

Light and darkness but mostly gray…Mississippi paradox.

 

Slab cement…ashes…crying “freedom summer” in January.

 

Acrid smoke…still riding the air.

 

Crushed by…wheels of justice.

 

Satan and his demons burn in Hell…or is it Parchman?

 

The immortal declaration…slowly rises.

 

 

Inspired by Alice Agnew…Vernon Dahmer…Amos 5:24

Silent Song

 

 

Silent Song

 

Strange thing…a bird without a song.

 

No song…but crying for help.

 

I have no loud…pretty…manipulative…self-serving…or fake…songs.

 

Lord, can You hear the roar…of my heart?

 

Intercede Holy Spirit…with harmony!

 

The absolute trust…of a silent song.

 

 

 

 

Inspired by...Psalm 121...Romans 8:26-28

 

New Fears

New Fears

 

Fears of a young man...growing old.

 

Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.

 

Slowly forgetting…the old, old stories.

 

Take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise.

 

My memories gone…are you still my friend?

 

Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of Thy love.

 

Wandering inside dementia…know that I stand on His promises.

 

Take my feet, and let them be swift and beautiful for Thee.

 

New fears…old promises…eternal God.

 

The Lord will fight for you…you need only to be still.

 

 

 

Inspired by...My fear of old age/ Alzheimer’s Disease…Francis Havergal…Exodus 14