Words condense like gath'ring clouds--
Holy Writ in nimbostratus ink--
sky-pillar God in clapping thunder loud
poured forth incarnated torrent.
Word became flesh flash-flooding earth
in waves of hydrologos truth:
you'll find Eden at the Savior's birth,
the same God wat'ring Old and New.
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Thursday, July 23, 2015
We Also Are Compassed About with So Great a Cloud of Witnesses
The Lord breathed life
then blew it heavenward
scattering the dust to which
she had returned--
a specter glist'ning
in the sun-lit beams
whose specks are haunting
homes and picture frames.
So too, one day
the Lord will scatter
you and me like dust
blown off the counter-top
and gather us into
those sun-lit beams:
two specters called,
returning home,
and filling out the frame.
then blew it heavenward
scattering the dust to which
she had returned--
a specter glist'ning
in the sun-lit beams
whose specks are haunting
homes and picture frames.
So too, one day
the Lord will scatter
you and me like dust
blown off the counter-top
and gather us into
those sun-lit beams:
two specters called,
returning home,
and filling out the frame.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Unto the Possession of His Fathers Shall He Return
I sold myself a slave to sin--
poor in power, poor in grace--
and labored vainly in that place
as though I were an alien.
Then the trumpet sounded jubilee
and returned me to inheritance.
My Savior was from Heaven sent
to set me at my liberty.
poor in power, poor in grace--
and labored vainly in that place
as though I were an alien.
Then the trumpet sounded jubilee
and returned me to inheritance.
My Savior was from Heaven sent
to set me at my liberty.
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