you give your all

Your mercy washes new.

I hold back, you give all

I reserve, diminishing the call.

Other's in refusal or hesitation

 to them a deadly destination

Ananias and Sapphira with holding

But how sweet the voice of the one with in

No shouting or scolding

“Trust and give a better offering,

Unleashing is an answer to your prayers,

Giving unblemished prize,

Fostering in you a softer side”

Your mercy washes over me.

When I hold back, you give all.

Teach me holy spirit to answer the call

The initial pangs of release 

Filled eventually with peace

The greater gift mine

To Trust in the divine

Finding courage with each new stride

In obedience, your love magnified

If I hold back you, you always give your all

In Christ I cannot   fall

And yet in refusal how much is lost

Opportunity to say yes and not count the cost

To follow fearlessly

Giving all cheerfully

This the example of the one who answered the call

Not holding back his life, giving all.

Word for 2020 Resilient

  Loop Poetry Prompt Beginnings 

Word for 2020

Resilient

A new season of running the race

In the past fear setting the pace

asking for a word for today

Lord speak to my heart, dispel all dismay

Whisper released ..."Resilient"

Really Lord? My heart pushing back in resistance

Tough, stretched, able to recover from adversity?

Lord does this mean pain, suffering and infirmity?

Leaning in guardedly

I begin to trust even if imperfectly

" I will increase your capacity"

"I am your stamina, your staying power"

"Your endurance for every hour"

The days now beginning and end in awe and amazement

Squashing of the self talk and abasement

He carries me through holding my hand

Ever lifting my gaze invited into" In Christ I can!"

Out of your heart speak

Loop Poetry project


Oh where to find the words
to be out front
expectations weighing down
Asking for fear to be displaced

"out of your heart speak"
"Your heart and mine intertwined"
"declare my heart in this place"
Continue to relinquish the need to please
"Trust the words of the one who resides inside'


Luke 6:45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

where are you

Devastation

Anger

Shock

We don’t understand

What is your plan

 God?

We prayed and cared

Loved and dared

to believe

Still we are told she is to leave

To go where God?

Back to the mess that wasn’t hers

Your name was supposed to be enough

Go after the one

But now it seems to be done

God

DO you weep too?

Will you still yet come through

Hope like a microscopic seed

Is it enough?

 you say to ask and plead

by your own blood

What else do you need

Is heaven filling even now with our tears?

Tell us why,

please make it clear

Your word says your plans are higher

Praying yours for her never expire

 Hold them, hold them near

Surround her with angelic protection

God we still need divine intersection

Looppoetryprompt mid week

Listening to my heart

I hear a faint beat

It is well with my soul

This moment at peace

Fear under control

 A sabath treat

 Pursuit of joy

 A space to create

 Not letting emotions toy

 Tomorrows pressures delayed

 Contentment the word for today

Looppoetryprompt the lie

#Looppoetryprompt
The Lie

Wild joy
not mine to obtain.
Legacy of loss,
hope always constrained.
Coasting in neural.
To delight unrestrained?
Desperate for renewal,
for mind and heart to be retrained.
Total blockage removal.
Spinning, dancing, unable to contain
wild, crazy, unusual
to be given a new name
Live as his jewel
Passion to be unchained

Memory

#Looppoetryprompt

Memory

A dreaded word

An elusive place

I reach to touch

It escapes again and again

Uncooperative neurons

Shame sure to follow

Files never found

As if yesterday wasn't

A longing to engage in story

Captive to Frustration 

 Today only exists

Blessings in the now

today is here

Which will I choose

Ambivalence or Embracing

An invitation

The gift of the present