Poetic Proverbs No 3

Love's Freedom

Love speaks a language,
Beyond the spoken word,
It flies above our baggage,
The freedom of a bird.

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Courage in Trial and Relationships

Courage: the flight adorning faith,
Not just to stand up and fight,
Characterising the 'bear and grin',
Every human being's plight.

Courage: the boat floating grace,
The energy stifling resentment,
Beyond the pride saving face,
The vehicle to godly contentment.

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Tree of Life

Hid from view; a solemn night,
The morn taken from evil intending,
Goodness, eternal, takes holy flight,
The Tree of Life unending.

Holy tree of God's true light,
Given with tremulous accord,
Innocence is our only delight,
Obedience to the LORD.

The morn, dazzling in its God-light, is revealed only to those humbly obedient, innocent ones - innocent only by the works of their Saviour. All others: a solemn night. To them, the morn is hid; and so, the Tree of Life.

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Good Samaritan's Love

Tight as a glove,
Is the passers-by concern,
Neighbourly is the kind of love,
That gives without thought of return.
(Luke 10:25-37)

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God's Creative Purpose

God's creative purpose:
Dynamic expression of love,
Active in grace to redeem,
Eternal in peace from above.

God's creative purpose:
Making wisdom known,
Truth from above the witness,
The Saviour, his Son, has shown.

God's creative purpose:
The pursuit of interminable justice,
Arriving in an age to come,
Finally an end to darkness.

God's creative purpose:
Reconciling a people in grace,
Love and wisdom and justice,
Worship is the final embrace.

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No matter the anguish, guilt, shame or torment, there is an answer; a unique God-designed answer to each of our problems and for each of our lives. Mostly that answer is a process.

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Jesus, the 'The'

Jesus said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life..." ~John 14:6a. The operative word: "the".

Follow Jesus everywhere: The Way.

Seek Jesus always: The Truth.

Experience Jesus now: The Life.

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Colours of Love

Love in motion,
Fear demotion,
A kindness potion,
A patience lotion,
So much more than emotion.

Love:
Truth embraced,
Humility encased,
Reality faced,
Simply chaste;
Never in haste,
Or self-abased,
Or given to distaste;
Just God-spaced.

Love:
Bears iniquity everywhere,
Believes in ways to dare,
Hopes enough to care,
Endures always through prayer.

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Tricks of thinking,
Devil's in the detail,
Occurs when we're blinking,
Converting 'negative' to retail.

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One glorious future,
There for one to master,
If hope provides the detour,
Through the maze of disaster.

© 2011 S. J. Wickham.

Steve Wickham is a Registered Safety Practitioner (BSc, FSIA, RSP[Australia]) and a qualified, unordained Christian minister (GradDipBib&Min). His blogs are at: http://epitemnein-epitomic.blogspot.com/ and http://inspiringbetterlife.blogspot.com/

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