Authority


When mountain walls confront the way.

Why sit and weep? Arise and say

"Be thou removed!" and they shall be

By the power of God cast in the sea.
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Lovely Laura, and Debs - "Refreshment for our Souls" - He certainly does keep us refreshed.

Bry - yes, we can be thankful that He is always there, and has promised to Never Leave or forsake us.

Po ate a tree

Master Po you are so wise
where did you get such knowledge.
From others much wiser than me.
Socrates you are such a gadfly.
I searched for truth
and found mediocrity.
Question begot question
and knowledge was born.
Question shared with question
and wisdom was born.
Truth was afraid of lie
and defense was born.
Love was afraid of hate
and honesty was born.
Boredom was afraid
of loneliness
and flirting was born.
Life was afraid of death
and reason was born.
Question met answer
and insight was born.
Truth met truth
and happiness was born.
And they had questions
ever after.

“Because I Believe”
I can make it through another day

I can keep this heart from decay

I can give this hurt inside to You

I can trust You to see me through

I can make it through everyday

I can mean it when I say I’m ok


Because I believe
That with You I can achieve
All I set my heart to do
Because I believe, Jesus I believe in You


I can know You’re always there with me

I can count on You on the mountain top as well as in the valley

I can go down on bended knee

I can feel You there with me

I can count on You to hear my prayer

I can call on You from anywhere

Because I believe You hear me when I cry

The blood You apply


Because I believe, Jesus I believe in You
I can count on every word You say
I can make it through everyday
Because I believe, I can make it on this earth
Thanks to my rebirth


Because I believe, Jesus I believe in You
Yes, I believe in You
Jesus, I believe in You


Susan C.
June 22, 2007

“Because I Believe”
I can make it through another day

I can keep this heart from decay

I can give this hurt inside to You

I can trust You to see me through

I can make it through everyday

I can mean it when I say I’m ok


Because I believe
That with You I can achieve
All I set my heart to do
Because I believe, Jesus I believe in You


I can know You’re always there with me

I can count on You on the mountain top as well as in the valley

I can go down on bended knee

I can feel You there with me

I can count on You to hear my prayer

I can call on You from anywhere

Because I believe You hear me when I cry

The blood You apply


Because I believe, Jesus I believe in You
I can count on every word You say
I can make it through everyday
Because I believe, I can make it on this earth
Thanks to my rebirth


Because I believe, Jesus I believe in You
Yes, I believe in You
Jesus, I believe in You


Susan C.
June 22, 2007

True Love

Love can always conquer
Whatever discord brings
And love can also cover
A multitude of things

Don't you under estimate
What love can ever do
For love is God eternal
And His love can renew

What is cold and lifeless
Now lost all hope and died
For love can breathe new meaning
And give it back new life

Please don't give up on love
When it seems that all is lost
For there is always hope
If we're prepared to pay the cost

For love is always worth it
No matter how much the price
For love will be much stronger
When we trust in Jesus Christ

So let God have full reign
Let Him live within your heart
Then you will know true love
For this He will impart

© By M.S.Lowndes

The Unentanglement Of Love


They were all driving me quite mad.
And it was really making me so sad.
Then I remembered you and I was glad.
Cause you are the best friend I had.

How you did it I have no way of knowing.
But somehow our love just keeps growing.
Like a jungle with vines; Not controlling.
But like a direction we are still going.

Into the great void of it all unwritten.
Taking me through the jungle unbidden.
Warm in your love and not frostbitten.
Making me know for it is now written.

What a joy to serve you and know you.
Feeling your presence as morning dew.
Correcting my path as only you can do.
Letting me know the way of the few.

When I am lost you are still there.
You taught me how to be able to share.
You give me peace when I am unaware.
But mostly I know that You do care.

Lord I am a yo-yo
And you hold the string
When I am low
You pull me up again
Sometimes it seems
You don't pull hard
Cause I don't go up very far
Then I hang
Suspended in time
While the string
Slowly unwinds
One day I'll make it
To the top
Keep pulling LORD
Please don't' stop
Problems get in my way
The string gets a little knot
But with you in control LORD
The knot comes untied
Keep on pulling LORD
Help me to climb
This long and hard string of life
For when I've made it
To the top
I know I've made it to YOU!!!

Your humble servant

Debbie

I like that one Debs.

Know the feeling, very nice

Faith
Christian poem - M.S.Lowndes

Increase our faith so we may see
What you’re doing in our lives
And all that we’ll accomplish in you
So our faith begins to rise

We need to be reminded Lord
Of the small mustard seed
And how the same amount of faith
Moves mountains if we believe

As we walk in pure obedience
With confidence in you
Our faith begins to grow and flourish
Bearing more abundant fruit

We must go beyond the limits
Of our comfort zones
Our faith is activated at those times
When we walk into the unknown

For it’s when the safety net is gone
We realize we need our Lord
When there’s nothing left to fall back on
We must lean on God much more

And faith is released in our hearts
As we bend our knee to pray
We shall be strengthened as we walk
And commit to Him each day.

Love's Deity
Classic Poem by John Donne

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.
I cannot think that he, who then loved most,
Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn.
But since this god produced a destiny,
And that vice-nature, custom, lets it be,
I must love her that loves not me.

Sure, they which made him god, meant not so much,
Nor he in his young godhead practised it.
But when an even flame two hearts did touch,
His office was indulgently to fit
Actives to passives. Correspondency
Only his subject was; it cannot be
Love, till I love her, who loves me.

But every modern god will now extend
His vast prerogative as far as Jove.
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend,
All is the purlieu of the god of love.
O ! were we waken'd by this tyranny
To ungod this child again, it could not be
I should love her, who loves not me.

Rebel and atheist too, why murmur I,
As though I felt the worst that love could do?
Love might make me leave loving, or might try
A deeper plague, to make her love me too;
Which, since she loves before, I'm loth to see.
Falsehood is worse than hate; and that must be,
If she whom I love, should love me.

Emily Bronte
POEM

No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the worlds storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heavens glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.

O God within my breast.
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life -- that in me has rest,
As I -- Undying Life -- have power in Thee!

Vain are the thousand creeds
That move mens hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main,

To waken doubt in one
Holding so fast by Thine infinity;
So surely anchored on
The steadfast Rock of immortality.

With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.

Though earth and man were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee.

There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou -- Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

We’ve shared our lives these many years.
You’ve held my hand; you’ve held my heart.
So many blessings, so few tears
Yet for a moment, we must part.
The memories you’ve given me
Are times I’ve shared with my best friend
I’ll hold them, love. right here they’ll be
Until we share our lives again.

T.C. Ring

Sword Of Light And Shield

Rapiers drawn with single edges.
En Guarde.
I thrust and you deflect.
You thrust and I deflect.
Shield.
We stand front to front.
Double edge shield.
Twin edge sword
turned inward.
Inward anger.
Single shield.
Single rapier turned in on fire.
Single rapier turned out.
Inward tension.
No shield.
Single rapier turned in.
Single rapier turned in.
Friendship.
We stand back to back.
Double edge sword.
Double edge shield.
Argument of friends.
Double edge sword on fire.
Double edge sword on fire.
Love.
We stand.
Double edge shield with fire.
Double edge sword with fire.
True Love.
We stand.
Double edge shield burning bright.
Double edge sword burning bright.
Marriage.
Triple edge shield burning bright.
Triple edge sword burning bright.
Holy Ghost.
Infinite edge shield burning bright.
Infinite edge sword burning bright.
Wrath of God.
Infinite edge shield burning bright with fire.
Infinite edge sword burning bright with fire.