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 Nov 2015
Alyssa Underwood
It is out of the heart’s cavernous longing and furious search
for love, significance, acceptance, approval, identity, security,
freedom, belonging, innocence, intimacy and transcendence—
out of its primordial memory of what was lost to us in the Garden—
that we begin to ***** idols for ourselves.

Unconsciously we hope they might restore to us a taste of paradise,
taking away our fear and shame and isolation.
We yearn to go back but, alas, we cannot get in from there.
We ache to connect to beauty, to be desired by it as much as we desire it,
and Jesus is the only door by which we may enter.
He is the Beauty, and all the rest are simply there like pealing bells
to arouse our hearts to Him and tell us that He is coming for us.

Still, as if we haven’t quite yet heard and believed the message, we keep
aimlessly trying to forge a false righteousness through our false gods.
When they are lost or the dreams of them unrealized we are devastated,
for the shadows, echoes and reflections we had supposed would finally
make us feel good about ourselves have been exposed as frauds,
and once again we are left to feel naked but without fig leaves to cover us.

It is at these precise moments, when the bottom of our false hope falls out,
that we are best prepared to encounter Christ in His intimate fullness
and most apt to recognize at last that He alone is everything
we have been so desperately wanting.
It is our boiling point, where the unbearable weight
of failed expectation so crashes in on us that we are finally
begging God to lift our idols off of us and deliver us from them,
pleading with Him to come and capture us,
crying out to Him to possess us fully.
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Even the most negative mind can become a shining Light.
For we all have options on what we want to fill our minds.
We rely on the Holy Spirit to work on us, changing us daily.
Remodeling us into the likeness of Christ himself daily.
The more that we seek his positive example filling us with it.
The brighter the Light within us shall shine revealing true Hope.
For only he can give to us true Hope here on the planet earth.
For he is the True Living Savior , whom speak Life into us.
Thus transforming us , into his people and use us to reveal himself to others.
 Nov 2015
Mike Hauser
Born to us a child
A world that's lost it's way
All in God's plan brought about
Taking this worlds place

Growing up a man
For such a time as this
All along playing his life song
To the tune of righteousness

As through the day he'd make his way
Showing mercy to the lost
What he had to say and to display
Was straight from the Fathers love

Faithful to the call
Taking on the dirt of sin
Knowing it would take the cross
To reconcile the heart of man

Rising the third day
The day death lost its sting
God and man brought back again
To the place of harmony

When born to us a child
A world that's lost its way
All in Gods plan brought about
Taking this worlds place
 Nov 2015
IcySky
My mom is in the hospital, they're keeping her over night.... She had a small stroke... And to make it worse today's her birthday. Prayers are appreciated. Thank you!
 Oct 2015
R
Oh, I've heard a thousand stories
Of what they think You're like
But I've heard the tender whisper
Of love in the dead of night
And You tell me that You're pleased
And that I'm never alone

You're a good good Father
It's who You are, it's who You are, it's who You are
And I'm loved by You
It's who I am, it's who I am, it's who I am
Quite possibly at the Top of my list of my favorite songs.
God keeps me strong, He makes me whole, He makes me new.
I'm never alone for He is always with me.
 Oct 2015
Ann M Johnson
( written by my sister, shared with permission from the author)
  
                      He Lives Within                              
                                        
Within my heart there is a place,
Where love is always found.
The place is where my savior lives,
No matter where I am bound.
His name is Jesus and his face,
I someday yearn to see .
Jesus came for you, and me,
from sin to set us free.
Reach out for His loving hand,
and though your knees are weak,
He'll help you stand.
Look into His loving gaze,
He is with you through all your days.
And when He gently whispers your name,
You will never be the same.
This poem was written by my sister Cathy and appeared in the October 2015 , Sr. Perspective, River edition newspaper in the Poets Corner section. I am delighted that she let me share this with all my Hello Poetry friends.
This race that we the disciple of Christ are in here.
Gets harsh, the pain is overwhelming at times too.
The people that we meet some hates us without reason.
Sometimes our brokenness is reveal within us as well.
But we have a Savior that lives with us here on the earth.
He strengthen us, sometimes moment by moment.
But one thing that I know for sure that we shall overcome.
Because we have a Savior that strengthen us here on the earth.
So whatever you go through or see remember we shall overcome.
Because it shall be the Christ that lives within us that shall overcome
O remember the Great things that the Good Lord has done.
For even though you are struggling now, the Lord got your back.
For even though you are hurting now things could be worst.
Be ye positive and know that you shall still see more Miracles.
Never give up, just trust in him whom calmed the storms here.
For this is why you were born here, to see what you put your trust in.
To see if you put your Trust in God or if you put it in yourself.
Thus this shall reveal your destiny, here on this fallen world.
For if you put it in the Creator then you shall see Great Wonders.
But if you put it in yourself, then youv shall lose seeing these wonders.
I am not the Light shining within
The strength deep within my shell.
Is not my strength which I hold.
The Spirit within me is not mine.
But it is entwine with my Spirit.
For all of this does not come from me.
But from the Holy Spirit belonging to God.
Still I am blessed by God making his home within me.
Sharing his plan for my life with me everyday.
 Oct 2015
Mike Hauser
Lord, here I am
Unfit to tie your shoes
Still on my behalf you move
When I'm not sure of what to do

You comfort me
You comfort me

Lord, here I am
The blind man at the gate
Not able to see the way
You hold my hand and gently say

You'll comfort me
You'll comfort me

Lord, here I am again
The woman at the well
My sins explain themselves
They are mine and no one else

Comfort me
Comfort me

Lord, here I am
The man beside the pool
Needing healing too
Help me find healing in you

As you comfort me
Comfort me

Lord, here I am
The thief that's on the cross
With the right words I am at loss
As my sins you pay the cost

Which comforts me
Yes, you comfort me
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