This poem was written Sunday Oct 2 before I heard of the Las Vegas shooter. It is not about the shooting in Las Vegas but about what happens in spiritual space when we gather in our churches to WORSHIP on Sunday. Satan becomes an indiscriminate destroyer of a distracted crowd. Sunday Shooting ( a poem)… Continue reading A Sunday Shooting
Tag: poetry for jesus
Eclipse
Photo by Rita Atkinson How bright the morning behind the moon.. How darkness drenced death will vanish soon As You hover like a halo around all that’s crying Encircling Your LOVE around the quick and dying Oh Sun of Moon OH SON OF MAN With every orbiting evil Your Glory shines forth Gods Plan 1.… Continue reading Eclipse
between the Altar and the Door
Oh God can’t you see from the Altar to the Door See how Blood spatters and speckles the church’s Dusty Floor! See the men in taverns tell tots tales of a Holy War. See mamas move prostrate sneaking prayer in a corridor. Look , crowds on the streets scream “we cannot take it anymore!” While your reporters write of a cry that they long to ignore: Many are the words of martyrs… Continue reading between the Altar and the Door
Mama’s Penpal
Look down Jesus from Your Holy Height to hear the groans of our children , the prisoners, to set free these doomed to die that they may live to declare YOUR NAME JESUS (Psalms 102:19-21) Oh church Oh church , can you hear our cries? We are outside your doors , our eye never dries! Seasons, they come… Continue reading Mama’s Penpal
Spring Planting : Good Friday 2016
We plant forgiveness and we wait for love to bloom. I waited a year to see the fruit of forgiveness. Now , today ,almost to the date of my planting with Jesus , I hear a pleasant report. Therefore I repost this blog as a true testimony that when you forgive as He is forgiving you,… Continue reading Spring Planting : Good Friday 2016