Poems

Purpose

Kings and queens may ponder,Agnostics shake their heads in doubt.
Some folk said you mightnever laugh again.

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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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We fly overempty landscapesof destructionand sail closeto catastrophicscars of change.

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NIGHT FLIGHT

The sky was ablaze with beauty,The cities were dripping with gold,But my heart was almost on empty.

TO BE AND NOT TO BE

To be a good Samaritan and a humble publicanHas set my heart afire.

Steps

Drained and in want,I lie here with no strengthto get up on my feet.

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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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The joy of blessing

May the sun shine in your heart,The rain nurture and refresh,And may you feel God's presenceEach step of the way.

Friendship

Like giving your warmCoat to the strangerWhen both of youAre cold

A musical reckoning

The music was the thing tonight that brought a reckoning.

Like a pearl

Some of you wrote to tell us you enjoyed the article in the March 29, 2004, kids' Sentinel by poet Lyn Hoopes.

Attitude

It's my twelfth double twist,and I've yet to stick one.
Lord, how I long to be carried upon Your wingUnder the radiance of Your Love.