Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Three Graces of God - 2

Divine living grace
swirling around us, watching us
as a Father with a child
playing out in the field

Waiting, watching, hoping
that the child would run back to Him
would fall safely in His loving arms
when it was time to come home

Hoping that their children
would turn from the world,
back to relationship with Him
in Him our reward

A loving God, desiring our faith
our wanting to be close to Him
longing for our turning
away from our earthly wills

Offering to us
His grace, His love for us
proven, made possible
by the sorry on Calvary
the joy of Easter morning
and the birthing on Pentecost

Grace in the accepting, in the conversion,
in the repentant heart, seeing the failures,
the wrongness of human designs
knowing the evil we have done
repenting before God

Saying yes to the offer, the gift, the sacrifice,
relationship once more with the Creator,
sharing the cup with the Savior, being one
with the divine, as best we can
in that moment of saving

Not by our woks, never by our deeds
by grace alone we are healed
We fail, as all the people have failed
We need to grace, the gift, the sacrifice
of the cross, the blessing of Easter

We need Christ’s reconciliation
His victory on Calvary, in the empty tomb
to be brought home, by our opening the gift
and letting Him into our hearts  in the moment
we repent and receive God’s gift

Growing, living, acting out
the grace, the faith that lives within us
in piety, through study, by action
a natural response to the grace so freely given

Whether we have to go back to the start,
to the grace waiting for us before we know about it
when we stumble, and we will, knowing God
will bless us with his grace again and again

Always ready for us to come home
always eager for us to want relationship
to grow in our faith, to share His love
to the whole world, to the ends of the earth


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November 25, 2014
Three Graces of God – 2

-          merger of 3 revised graces poems:
-          edited November 25, 2014
Prevenient Grace – v2
Justifying Grace – v2
Sanctifying Grace – v2
November 25, 2014
Three Graces of God
-          merger of original graces poems:
May 1, 2008
Prevenient Grace
May 1, 2008
Justifying Grace
May 1, 2008
Sanctifying Grace
Walk to Emmaus
&
Prayers for the Women’s Walk to Emmaus
Crossroads Walk to Emmaus of New England
Walk to Emmaus
Luke 24:13-35
grace
love
Luke 15:11-32
Prodigal Son
Mark 10:17-31
The Parable of the Rich Man
(same template from 11/4/2012)

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