Category - Poetry

Purple from the sea snails
Dor was a popular place
Created wealth for merchants
Making plain cloth great

Thirty thousand sea snails
For just 3 grams of dye
The cost was near a fortune
Their wealth would never die

Dor is no more
It didn’t last long
Their wealth evaporated
Now others sang their song

Just like life
It comes and goes so quick
Hard to make a living
Wealth goes very quick

Money, monied people
Man’s measure is all wrong
The measure of one’s true wealth
Are things that won’t be gone

No one can take away
Anything we give
The more we give the more we get
Life is designed that way

How to be a rich
Give all you have
Give to others gladly
Wealth will grow in you

CC 3/19/05

They aren’t smart
They don’t know
Tomorrow is a brand new show
Unless all ends today

They aren’t smart
They say they are great
A common cold
Can end their fake

They aren’t smart
Look at us
Wonderfully made
So complex, us

They aren’t smart
To rail at God
Life is short
Evil isn’t fun

They aren’t smart
Life is hard
Confusing things
Track our lives

Humility declares its heart
It loves God
And serves mankind
Aware that life is not kind

Humility lives
Ready to go
Tomorrow is not promised
We may join the show

All is Christ
Christ is all
Humble is smart
Life is not slow

CC 3/19/05

Who’s the one that you can see?
He always has a plan
Even when we fail to see
His plan is in his hand

God is our creator
His hand is never seen
And yet He’s always working
On a plan for you and me

A plan that gives us perfection
Helping us to be
The very best at what we do
It gives us eyes that see

See the joy in others lives
Know that we have use
Filling up that hole inside
That pulls us to the Lord

His plan guides our journey
His plan keeps us safe
Close to the Father
Under Jesus precious grace

A plan of plans
That sees through the dark
Reaching to the future
Each moment blessing our heart

This is the day that the Lord hath made
His plan was made for us
So that daily we’d have victory
Living with the Lord in us

CC 3/19/05

Galilee I love you
Clean and pretty
Green and blue
Smelling sweet for me
Let’s stay here and work

Come He said
We must go
Down dusty roads
Through the land
Walking to Jerusalem

Jericho first
Heal some folks
I’m moving quick
I have my cloak
The time has come to go

Up to Jerusalem
Where the prophets died
On the Mount of Olives
The people cried
Blessed is the King

Hysteric leaders
Hatred thick
Plan concocted
Christ must die
Let’s do it this week

Palm Sunday glorified
The king would die
But victory lurked within
In seven days it all played out
God created victory and Christ is alive
5/18/05

Riding on the Golan
Looking down below
How did Israelis?
Let this place go

So many vineyards
Mines everywhere
Hermon pouring water
To users down below

Rocks thrown from heaven
Volcanos roamed then
A special land of richness
Filled with precious strength

Riding through the Golan
Druze everywhere
Now it’s all peaceful
People don’t care

What can we do?
Impossible it seems
Don’t give those people
The Golan dream

So much important
So hard to know
Look to the Bible
To see where it goes

As we face a problem
Especially impossible ones
Give it to Jesus
The thing will be done

Jesus Christ will answer
“Here are the steps to go”
Follow His leading
Obedience knows
CC

Dan is a problem
Evil was its priest
Led foolish people
By their sanity

They never saw Him
Cared less for God
All they ever wanted
Was to be in charge

Set me free Lord
To worship You
Wisdom guides me
To kneel before You

The only things I own
Are what I’ve given away
Help me sow my life
The Holy Spirit way

I know you’ve called me
I hear you each day
I need strength to serve You
To be Yours today

Open up my heart Lord
Work thru me
Reaching out to people
So they can be free

3/18/05

Look and see
The Galilee
Jesus home
Here He roamed
Healing folks

Hear His words
Setting free
Pigs destroyed
People freed
Evil flees
The Gospel is told

Touch it
This place exists
Walk where He walked
Listen to His words
He is alive

Wake up
Your must tell
Jesus in you
Evil dispelled
You are free
Tell all you see

3/18/05

God used pagans
To recover His scrolls
Hidden for centuries
Their story untold
Covered by the desert
Nature did His work

Scrolls galore
A dead hand response
Did God say?
Testified yea
What can the world say?
They don’t believe it’s true

Qumran exists
Through hermits and a twist
So many came along
Till those thrown small stones
And then the world could see
His Word lives on its own

Faith is such a fragile thread
Given for our day
Helping us find the way
To His divine home
And not be overwhelmed
The world is not our home

I see that hand
Do you believe?
Christ really came
You can have His name
Give Him your pain
Read what His Word says

CC 3/17/05

Ein Gedi, fountain of the wild goat
David’s place of refuge
Saul came with hope
Could he thwart God’s plan

Look at the night sky
The moon on the sea
A land locked oasis
Beckoning to me

Come aside-relax
Spend some time in prayer
Don’t forget the troubles
This wilderness could bear

Thirty miles to Jerusalem
Judea in between
Not a place for weakness
Strength was its acclaim

Always a respite
Before an assault
Lulling those of evil
The Lord was still boss

Remember as we journey
Don’t forget the springs
Often in the desert
The oasis is the king

Use your time with Jesus
To become God’s spring
You be the oasis
For those without a dream

CC 3/17/05

Out of sight of Jerusalem
Arad built its hold
Over minds of Israelis
Fashioned by evils cold

A thin veneer of proper
Developed by pagan priests
This place of Moses action
Was destroying God’s peace

Active on the edges
Coming out of the hills
Far enough away
For the king to forgive

Lulled into evil
Practicing man’s cult
Arad was evil’s companion
Destroying God’s love

Pulling at the garment
Fashioned by the Word
Claiming all the wealth
God’s people deserved

Just a little slippage
Not a major slight
Arad will soon destroy
The key to Israel’s might

Not unlike us Christians
Who are our friends?
When we live in two worlds
Our strength will surely end

CC 3/17/05