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BEAUTY

December 29, 2006
Clay Corvin
General

Beauty comes in many cloaks
Fashioned from the mind
Energy expressed in time

Seldom do we realize
Beauty is dictated
By societies eyes

It is important to understand
That beauty is within
Valuing everyone

Dealing with our wisdom
To know that people count
Expressed by our actions of service

Beauty is an action
It takes pain to care
And will to share

Everyday is a challenge
To turn inward and ignore
He will help me care

When I’m faced with choices
Jesus looses me to face the day
And live life with beauty, God’s way

Clay Corvin     3/20/04

Dead Sea Travel

December 29, 2006
Clay Corvin
General

Dead Sea travel
Northern bound
A lot of noxious sulfur
Earthly found

Thought about the Romans
Many thousand strong
Hard nosed and charging
More their constant song

All around is desert
Deaths rules this land
People at the Dead Sea
Live with lots of brown

How can I change something?
It all starts with me
Commit to help another
Consistently bend my knee

Giving is the beginning
To change a brown, dead life
Listening helps forgiving
To free oneself from strife

History teaches what happens
When cruelty is in control
But God loves people
He can change the way I go

Hands and feet of Jesus
Becomes a changers goal
Acting like Christ to others
Reinforces heaven’s hold

Just a few thoughts at the Dead Sea
As we traveled north today

Clay Corvin   12/29/06

HEARING ME

December 29, 2006
Clay Corvin
General

Praise God for hearing me
I cried out in a plea
He changed me
And met my need

Praise God for using me
I wanted worth
He assigned me work
And I learned I was important

Praise God for loving me
Gave me the gift of relationship
Jesus died for me
And I received salvation

Praise God for forgiving me
I’m so forgetful and foolish
Every thought God has for me is good
And I was encouraged

Praise God with what I say
He is hearing me
As I work from my heart
Christ will see me home

Clay Corvin   3/19/04

THINKING OF

December 29, 2006
Clay Corvin
General
I’m thinking of you Rick
I wish you could have come
Rome is a joy for each of us
Buses full to bursting
Speeding around the town
Cramming in more people abounds
The joys of deliberate strolls
Walking by buildings 2,000 years old
And feeling all these Roman ghosts will make your skin tingle
Seeing where Paul suffered
Knowing Peter and Luke were scared
Helps me see your courage to be where God called you
The food is fabulous
I eat too much
But we’re walking five miles plus so I shouldn’t balloon up
It is a real celebration
Studying Ephesians
Seeing Paul’s profession of Christ and knowing he was true
Rick we miss your laughter
And the insights you’ve learned
You are God’s servant in you we see God’s son
Clay Corvin 3/19/04

IN ROME

December 29, 2006
Clay Corvin
General

Weary bones
Hungry eyes
As we discovered Rome

All ahead
Flight behind
What would my week hold?

I want to know more about Jesus
More of what drove Paul and Peter
To walk to their death
Praising and glorifying the Lord

The world ruled
With a Roman hand
Christians were charred
And Christianity spread

I want to know about big cities
Majestic cities of old
Stone cold and powerful
With a wealth that turned to dust

I want to see the ancients
To hear about their lives
And see their work
What can I use today?

I want to try the food
Smell the smells
And walk all their streets

I want to build this journey
Into a masterpiece
That I can filter and relish
For many years to come

And I want to see Jesus
And listen as He speaks
Of His love for me

03/19/04  Clay Corvin

HEADING FOR ROME

December 29, 2006
Clay Corvin
General

Early morning light
Foggy mind
Excited heart
Heading for Rome

All have come
To travel Rome
To get to know
Paul’s second home

Busy streets
Crowded walks
Everywhere is history
Open to our eyes

Carla comes to help us see
Pointing out and explaining
Paul was here proclaiming
Jesus death and resurrection

All the wealth
And power to own
And Paul claimed
This place for God

Around the world
Paul’s letters went
Soon he died at Rome’s feet
Jesus brought Rome to its knees

Paul and Peter and Luke
Wrote what Christ could do
Those Words from God
Speaking to me and you

Christ intended us to know
Where we stood and how to grow
Now we arrive in Rome
To see this place early Christian’s called home

03/19/04  Clay Corvin

WORKING THRU

December 29, 2006
Clay Corvin
General

Working thru our actions
Seeking what to do
Following Jesus
Will let your service be true

Struggling with our message
Writing out our plan
Things we say and do
Should lead others to You

How can I best serve?
Only where I am
Dreaming only futures
Forgets about man

Jesus saves people
Giving them light
All the love Christ gives us
Enables us to fight

The fight is for focus
Off the enemy’s ruse
God will fight our battles
If our heart is true

True to our confession
Faithful day by day
Filled with obedience
Serving Jesus’ way

Clay Corvin 3/18/04

IMMANUEL

December 29, 2006
Clay Corvin
General

Immanuel, God with us
Where we are
Not where we aren’t

Came to be
A part of us
All we do
Not just the good

Seeing us
Feeling our pain
Knowing our name
God’s love is real

Calling us
To follow Him
Eternal life
We can be like Him

Guiding us
Each day we live
Equipping us to give
And be His hands and feet

Doing for us
So we grow
Get to know
Jesus outfits us to win

01/05/04   Clay Corvin

MY LIFE IS REAL

December 29, 2006
Clay Corvin
General

My life is real
All the things I do
And God loves me

Where I am
And for what I am
Jesus has set me free

He has plan
For you and me
A plan of value and worth

Not to elevate me
Or lower you
But to equip me to serve Him

In service I grow
And reap what I sow
And see the Lord of life

My surrender to Him
Is victory for me
Enabling me to help you

My freedom is from sin
And not from God
I am free from death
I win

01/05/04  Clay Corvin

GOD JUDGES

December 29, 2006
Clay Corvin
General

God judges
Not me
I am to love
And care for you

All I do
I do for you
To become like Christ
And live His life

His control
My surrender
His life
My death

When I serve
It is to do
But first I must be
Like Jesus

I see you
The things you do
But I am called to serve
And not declare you wrong

1/05/04  Clay Corvin