Two Years of Struggle

Two years, almost
standing in the pulpit
asking if I should turn
if I should walk on the water

If I should turn
if I should move in a new direction
feeling the calling
but bound by the weight

The pit of the world
the choices long before
debt hanging over me
a load on my back

Wanting to turn
to follow the Master
yet feeling trapped, bound
by the sins of my past

September 25, 2011
since my Laity Sunday sermon,
October 2009
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A Stranger within the Gate

Known within these walls
a member of the flock
yet a stranger within the gate
the courts of the law

Awkward in my spirit
pacing in the hall
wondering why I don’t fit in
that I don’t belong at all


September 22, 2011
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A Calling to Write

Not oblique,
something unclear
not with words grandiose
a calling to write clear and terse

Poetry, beauty
in the straightforward
message from God
the words I hear in my heart

Called to share freely from him
to the ends of the earth
Comfort, hope, one truth revealed,
the love of Christ complete.

By his grace alone
we are made whole
our eternal lives restored.


February 4, 2010
Habakkuk 2:2
Habakkuk 1
Habakkuk 2:1-3
and Day 138, “Write the Revelation”, in
“Daily Mediations: On Golden Texts of the Bible”,
by Henry Gariepy
http://books.google.com/books?id=9tjVtRt3TUMC&pg=PP1&dq=henry+gariepy&ei=6tqBSqLVDJiQyQT4i9DOCg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
read 2/4/10


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