tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89324676009378753592024-03-07T21:57:16.818-05:00Wrestling with GodDefinitely below average prose and praise in honor of the Everlasting Man, King of Kings, Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords....hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-28054804919021279682014-08-25T09:31:00.001-04:002014-08-25T09:31:57.623-04:00<div align="center">
Of Things Seen and Not Believed</div>
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I never met a flying pig with sprouted wings from fleshy sides.<br />
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I never met a little girl who shed her fur to take smooth skin, a former monkey-pie.<br />
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I’ve yet to meet that man of letters who could explain or teach a single thing, apart from grace.<br />
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Yet I have met a wormy little caterpillar-bug who once did crawl from dust to tomb, transformed, not evolved, to butterfly. <br />
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hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-89710942599663291682014-03-25T09:31:00.000-04:002014-03-25T09:31:24.857-04:00The Malachi PourFranklin once said: “if a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him”. This is true enough; though, at best, it is a splinter of the larger truth of generosity. The Lord says: “no one takes my life from me, I lay it down of my own accord”. The truth of generosity is simply this: if you choose to give something away, it can never be taken from you. If you give your wealth, how can it be taken? If you make a gift of your freedom, can you ever be made a slave? If you give love, mercy, forgiveness, can those things ever be snatched from your hands? If you give your faithfulness, your loyalty, your chastity to the bride of your youth, can it be stolen?<br />
Has the atonement, the completed work, then ceased to compel our hearts, minds and souls to give? Has the sacrifice and the “keeping of the feast” constrained us, at God’s holy table, to close our rails, to lid the cup, once poured out in love, for us? <br />
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I say, emphatically, no! For The Cup is a flowing stream from everlasting to everlasting. The Cup to the suffering, the broken, the afflicted, the sick, the proud, and all manner of men, is the old covenant fulfilled and made new perpetual. The Atonement, singular, definite for all time, empowers and empours for all time. It is no mere abolition of law; it is consummation and perfection, willfully poured out and pouring out still- yea gushing, flooding out in tides, and beckoning us to join the swells, purifying and washing so that we may give acceptable gifts of our own sacrifice unto The Lord. <br />
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“Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Malachi 3: 10</div>
hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-66593602071847507732014-01-21T16:03:00.000-05:002014-03-25T09:44:39.148-04:00Dismas is a Prince<div style="text-align: center;">
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A prideful boy once asked the King, a favor to enjoy:</div>
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The King he listened to the lad, and asked for his true wish.</div>
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The boy said “I am a man with many needs and also wants and dreams. I ask to be a worldly man, more stellar than my king.”</div>
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The King he looked with sadness down, then gave the lad his wish:</div>
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He sent away the foolish boy, to be a foolish king.</div>
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A sweet young lass of noble birth, then said to the great King:</div>
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“Your Majesty, you see my gifts, you see my many things. I am a child of privilege; I deserve above the rest. Look after me, especially, make me a royal queen.”</div>
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The King he wept a solemn tear to see this child awry; He left her to another king, and granted her true wish.</div>
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A man of sickness and great sin, in chains, was drug into the court. His flesh was torn, his legs were broke. He bled upon the stones. </div>
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The wretch, he could not even lift his eyes, to see the Holy King, yet hoarsely still, he found his tongue and slowly did he speak:</div>
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“I am a broken thief, condemned to die, a sinner to my core, but once I met, on Calvary, a man who is my true King…and there he promised to remember me, into his kingdom come. I have no merits of my own and yet I Know Your Son. He was the perfect sacrifice; His blood for all my sins…Great Master, if it by thy will, I came to visit Him”.</div>
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The King in splendor’s sovereign grace, he took this beggar in. The Prince of Peace, He healed his wounds, and gently lifted him. </div>
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The Spirit of the Living God, rejoiced with all the host, and Dismas sang eternal hymns to Father, Son and Ghost. </div>
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hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-16315885600724941672013-10-15T17:03:00.000-04:002014-03-25T09:41:10.964-04:00The Wrestler<div style="text-align: center;">
Inside the thirty foot line, the circle-world of pain, contest and fatigue, lies this struggle of man- of Jacob left alone. </div>
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With fear, sweat, blood and toil he grabs to take, at war against himself, his own self- made god.</div>
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In short time exhaustion comes, fatigue and sinews drawn, for loss and victory is certain now, assured only to One. </div>
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Humbled man, your little god is now so small and weak, would you yet cling, and seek the blessing of a permanent limp?</div>
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Would you now, not deserving, receive your new name, “Deceiver” no more but “Israel”; “Haser”, my child, you no longer lack.</div>
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Oh humbled lad, defeated, yet victorious, in the grip of Champion Everlasting, who never tires of love poured out- to sacrifice.</div>
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And still the blessings come, and yet, He wrestles on. </div>
hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-20898304406962634282013-10-15T17:01:00.003-04:002014-03-25T09:47:28.247-04:00A Poet-Warrior’s Pen<div style="text-align: center;">
A poet’s pen and mighty sword, is but a crutch to Thee. </div>
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A girl’s sweet smile and laughing love, shows just your heart for me.</div>
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The man who was, and is, and will, with joy and judgment bring: once came, still comes, and yet to come, eternal shall He be. </div>
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Psalm 45 For the choir director: A love song to be sung to the tune “Lilies.” A psalm[a] of the descendants of Korah. 1 Beautiful words stir my heart. I will recite a lovely poem about the king, for my tongue is like the pen of a skillful poet. 2 You are the most handsome of all. Gracious words stream from your lips. God himself has blessed you forever. 3 Put on your sword, O mighty warrior! You are so glorious, so majestic! 4 In your majesty, ride out to victory, defending truth, humility, and justice. Go forth to perform awe-inspiring deeds! 5 Your arrows are sharp, piercing your enemies’rts. The nations fall beneath your feet. 6 Your throne, O God,[b] endures forever and ever. You rule with a scepter of justice. 7 You love justice and hate evil. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you, pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else. 8 Myrrh, aloes, and cassia perfume your robes. In ivory palaces the music of strings entertains you. 9 Kings’ daughters are among your noble women. At your right side stands the queen, wearing jewelry of finest gold from Ophir! 10 Listen to me, O royal daughter; take to heart what I say. Forget your people and your family far away. 11 For your royal husband delights in your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord. 12 The princess of Tyre[c] will shower you with gifts. The wealthy will beg your favor. 13 The bride, a princess, looks glorious in her golden gown. 14 In her beautiful robes, she is led to the king, accompanied by her bridesmaids. 15 What a joyful and enthusiastic procession as they enter the king’s palace! 16 Your sons will become kings like their father. You will make them rulers over many lands. 17 I will bring honor to your name in every generation. Therefore, the nations will praise you forever and ever. </div>
hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-45633463707908020212013-08-16T09:17:00.002-04:002014-03-25T09:51:42.773-04:00Holy Sovereign, Savior, King<div style="text-align: center;">
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Only in generosity, yet only in righteousness… </div>
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Only in infancy, yet only in maturity… </div>
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Only in forgiveness, yet only in judgment…</div>
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Only in kindness, yet only in severity… </div>
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Only in work, yet only in play… </div>
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Only in peace, yet only in war… </div>
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Only in songs of praise, yet only in prayer… </div>
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Only in life, yet only in death…</div>
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Only in abundance, yet only in want… </div>
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Only in fellowship, yet only in solitude… </div>
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Only in fear, yet only in hope… </div>
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Only in doubt, yet only in faith… </div>
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Only in sickness, yet only in new life… </div>
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Only in sleep, yet only in toil…</div>
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Only in blindness, yet only in sight…</div>
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Only in joy, yet only in strength…</div>
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Only in celebration, yet only in mourning…</div>
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Only in corruption, yet only in purity…</div>
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Only in thirst, yet only in streams…</div>
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Only in pride, yet only in humility…</div>
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Only in power, yet only in weakness…</div>
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Only in hell, yet only in heaven…</div>
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Only in peril, yet only in rescue…</div>
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Only in brokenness, yet only in restoration…</div>
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Only in lack, yet only in provision…</div>
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Only in one, yet only in three…</div>
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hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-25242141801583506382013-06-27T10:23:00.001-04:002014-03-25T09:52:50.969-04:00When Poverty Came Home<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">When once You intruded through our doors, we asked You please to leave, but still You steeled away, and stood, to have Your say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">You taught us, though not “nice”. You taught us, though not “sweet”, but in the Master’s name, You bathed our soiled feet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">You pointed up to love; You showed fidelity: first fruits to God, above, then to the ones You love, a holy hope of life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-75441979397411769182013-06-06T09:44:00.000-04:002013-06-06T09:44:02.917-04:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He serves not one, but only
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He sits with none whilst in
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He speaks without hearing; to
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He boasts of his honor; he
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He rants from his bed ‘til it
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">His use is of others,
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He bears hard his wrath, and
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">Rather to die, than seek or
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He is a shrewd manager, no
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">What he chooses to carry; he sadly
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">His yoke is so heavy, to even
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He grips hard his pain; he
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He loves God first, but finds
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He sits with the low, but
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He prays for all men, yet men
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">His raiment is given, in
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He seeks truth and peace;
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He runs to the sick; He weeps
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He smiles at the rain; He
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He laughs with the children;
He sings to the aged.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He gives thanks for grace,
and sin fears His name.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He prays for God’s mercy; He
makes humble claim. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He carried a cross; He
praises God’s name!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He gave all for all; His yoke
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">He yields to be carried, but
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<i><span style="font-family: "Antique Olive";">And abolish all shame ! <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-6801223844019675192013-06-06T09:41:00.001-04:002013-06-06T09:41:10.005-04:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<u>The Deceiver’s
Great Crime<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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The crime he does
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Go back for evermore,
never forward…always to recede.</div>
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Great Satan’s myth
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That man, He cannot
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His one great crime,
in countless ways, sends men back unto the scene,</div>
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always as a dog unto
his vomit, he does burden, he does scream.</div>
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He smiles at this
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did you ever really
think, your own gravity, you could defy!</div>
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Give up he taunts and
whispers, so soft you cannot change,</div>
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of use you are to
none…your life is ‘most done… slide back to whence you came.</div>
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But a Man on a colt
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It cuts two-edged sharp,
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He looks him in the
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I cut loose the ropes
of those whom you would let die.”</div>
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And Satan he does
tumble and Satan he does fall,</div>
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in defeat he bows his
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Back to
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where man, he cannot
change, and God is of all time.</div>
hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-13469573788431515092013-05-31T16:21:00.002-04:002013-05-31T16:21:28.230-04:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<u><span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">The Man Up There<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">There is a man up there,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">See how he hangs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">Surrounded by those who mocked then and now,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">See his blood flow, see his breath slow, it is almost over<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">See how he hangs, now and then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">He once fed many with bread.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">He once taught many with words, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">Loved many, healed many, forgave many.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">See how he still feeds, how he still teaches, how he still loves, heals, forgives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">Then and now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">The man will soon be among us brought down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">He is as no other, but as every other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">Of God, but yet man, a King of all kings, a shepherd of lambs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">A frail broken body, sweet ascendant pure dove.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Antique Olive';">Our Christ and our savior poured out only in love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-41324006262002591172013-05-31T16:15:00.001-04:002013-05-31T16:15:38.093-04:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Men of God<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">If not for Godly men of faith,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">where ever would I be?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I am by no means certain now,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">but not on bended knee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">If not for Holy men of grace,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">what ever would I learn?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">I would be surely ever lost, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">and for God’s love, never yearn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">If not for blessed hands and feet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">where ever would I hide?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Just tossed along in waves of doubt, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">and carried with the tide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">If not for one strong teacher true,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">what would be my fate?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">To follow my own sinful ways, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">of envy, greed, and hate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-14093580110999336222013-05-31T16:13:00.002-04:002013-05-31T16:13:48.879-04:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Of the Red Cross Errant and His Triune Foes<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Sansloy, he is my daily foe, his sword, is never dull. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He calls me out to ways of anarchy; he taunts me with his shout. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">With the evil of my sinfulness, Sansloy he cuts me still, but in your strength of holiness, there comes the victor’s thrill. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Your law’s commands do call me back; confession, mercy plead, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Your true and honest pedagog, so gently teaching, leads:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">That on the tree was crucified, all sins of mankind’s seed, forgiveness is the healing leaf, the balm for cuts and sins, reminded of saving grace, Sansloy, he hides his face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Sansfoy, he is the next great foe, his axe will fell me to my knees. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">A giant man, he boldy walks in vales of death; he boasts of tragedy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">He knows my weakness, knows my fears; he smells my doubts with ease. Reminding me I am no Shepard King; nor even Jesse’s boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He laughs at such a little child, and calls my weapons “toys”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet, Sansfoy, he does forget, the one great worthy thing: remembering not the blood of Christ, already poured aground, but then reminded of sustaining grace, Sansfoy, he turns his face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Sansjoy, he is the worst of all, his breath, an odious cloud. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">He dwells in towers of broken light; he spies me from afar. He is an earnest enemy; he never leaves his plough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">His hands, they would tear out my heart, and turn me from the way. He wields the bitter tears of death, his tongue it does inveigh. He is a scaly nasty beast, his aim is to deceive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">He plucks the weak lambs from the flock. He brews a bitter tea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet Sansjoy he does forget, the army of your saints. With brotherhood and conquering hymns, they shout the psalms of praise, announcing one great reigning king, who conquers every place, and when he sees the sovereign grace, Sansjoy, he loses face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-39468399288860675792013-05-31T16:10:00.001-04:002013-05-31T16:10:19.078-04:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;">Melancholic Joy<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">It cuts like a light;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">It causes no fright,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">But only to fear,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">A savior brought near.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">It seems a sad thing;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">a life poured out for no thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Fighters for purity;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">His resurrected death is your surety:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">The surgeon healer’s steady knife-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Blood poured out in love to save, this melancholic joy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If God were bad
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If God were bad, this
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If God were bad,
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If God were bad,
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If God were bad,
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">But God is good, and
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hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-44601643226968223672013-02-13T08:17:00.001-05:002013-02-13T08:17:02.188-05:00<div align="center">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Faith, Hope and Love<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">These places to abide,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">through fears, our faith does lead,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">to love, His broken heart, received,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">yet plant our hearts with seed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">and grow, three places to abide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-88683032627382116592013-01-29T08:47:00.001-05:002013-03-24T08:42:20.923-04:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
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he took a gift from
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The shining face, of timeless age, reflected back at him.</div>
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limb it sprang from Holy root, the tree of life it grew, and in a twinkling of
an eye, the man <br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Court
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A court
of grace would have no laws, but brim with broken hearts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and
flowing there, on stoney ground, would run a crimson tide,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">a
tide of love, a tide of tears, in thanks for sacrifice,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and
flowing from the open doors, this tide would be poured out…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">a
river of new, unending healing balm, forgiving every doubt…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">awash
in answer to His prayers, His mercies, inside-out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-6467634975072293382012-11-25T17:38:00.000-05:002012-11-27T05:14:13.936-05:00Theology<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Theology<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Three apostolic holy men, evangels all, once walked along a road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">They’d traveled far to foreign lands, and now they neared their home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The one whose name was Law first spoke, to his companions true:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-30145396595675641152012-11-12T11:28:00.002-05:002012-11-12T11:28:50.997-05:00The Adorner<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-31676655347482636492012-11-11T09:34:00.000-05:002012-11-11T19:43:50.888-05:00Manna of God<br />
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hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-9220521564971692302012-11-11T09:27:00.000-05:002012-11-11T09:27:22.475-05:00Of Gamecocks and Men <br />
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hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-88880817420855506412012-08-16T17:12:00.001-04:002012-08-16T17:12:13.641-04:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">The Living Prayer, he is a man, of grace and joy and peace, but not a man of solitude, nor yet a man of ease: a thankful soul, in patience wise, a watchman in the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">The Living Prayer, he is a sign, a witness to the last. In slumbers still, his courage comes; his smile, with kindness, lights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">The Living Prayer, his heart, it brims, his tongue is held in love. His ears, they know, the Shepherd’s voice; his eyes, they see, His face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">The Living Prayer, he joins the hosts, the Shepherd knows His lambs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He reaches out: the hands are scarred, but marked with holy grace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">The Living Prayer, he prays out still, His love, it knows no end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">He sings with laud, to Christ’s great joy, the Shepherd holds His lambs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-766173981391306222012-08-16T17:07:00.001-04:002013-02-17T08:08:26.500-05:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-67498703596580916542012-07-08T15:45:00.001-04:002012-07-09T10:50:39.991-04:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Little Poppy was petrified and indeed horrified by the spectacle. She said simply in a quaking, wavering, nearly tearful little voice: “Coach, the sky is breaking!”. She knew things were amiss, and that of all things, the continual presence of the sky was a source of stability. The permanence of the heavens was at least something upon which a two year old mind could really depend. It was not the noise which frightened her, it was not the gaudy colors or the designs which so startled her, it was rather the more unfathomable prospect of the sky and heavens really and actually breaking apart and passing away, the realization that permanence may not be permanent. It was this realization which absolutely spooked the sweet little child in such a fantastic, cataclysmic, and remarkably profound way. For in one instant, Poppy had grasped her own smallness, the smallness of all of us, and the fact that we have nowhere to hide in the face of a great power beyond ourselves: and the implicit affirmation of the dependency on God’s daily mercies, all in one simple, short phrase: “Coach, the sky is breaking!”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For Poppy knew, as all little children know, that when something such as the sky “breaks”, there is something coming which is more profound, real, and a matter of such significance as the world coming apart at the seams. Mommies and Daddies might well reassure their children that it is fine for the sky to “break” on the traditional day of fireworks, but only children can imagine the terror of such a notion without holiday, and it is the terror of the end. It is the terror of stopping. It is the terror of conclusion. When something funny happens it is Poppy’s habit and joyous response to command: “do again!”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As obedient grandparents, we stage a repetitive performance of the humorous event, and on these occasions the old always grow weary of the joke before the young ever tire of it. But in the world of the broken skies, it is possible that we may not be able to “do again!”, because we have run out of do-overs and second chances, and it is finished. This is, of all things, something to fear. It is a child’s appreciation of the gravity of the forecast of the apostle Peter in his second letter: “But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. The heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything in it will be found to deserve judgment.” Such a caution should be equally fearsome to adults as it is to children, yet it is not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Most mature people in our world do not believe in something so fantastical and “mythic” as the end of time unless, of course, they are speaking of something so popular as global warming, but almost all children easily and readily grasp it, because they can grasp their own shortness, both in their stature and in their history. They grasp the miracle of waking up each day to discover something fresh and new. They grasp the wonder and joy of saying: “do again!” and then seeing it done again. They grasp their own silliness of laughing over and over again at the same little joke. They grasp the wonder of daily creation. They grasp their very smallness and their dependency on Mommies and Daddies, and hopefully, through the example of the family, their utter dependency on Christ’s creation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They grasp that bedtime is only a temporary ending, and waking again each day to a dependable sky and heaven which was there before they came is a recurring, repetitive and delicious miracle and gift. They remain, in part, humble in the humblest sense: they are aware of their smallness and the bigness of the heavens. With full appreciation of this small humility, their fear of the end and conclusion is not the irrational fear of the mad cults making preposterous forecasts of the precise time and date of end of the world, but it is rather the quite rational fear, in the sense of profound respect, of something larger, more real and much, much more powerful than they, and they “get it”, even when the unenlightened and over-educated adults around them do not. They understand the lie of their permanence, and the absolute truth and expectation of the future unseen permanent. They understand the joys of the new beginning and the trepidation of the absolute end just as do the very old and very wise before their very end. They grasp the profound reality that God may not choose one day to “do again”; they understand what might happen when the sky “breaks” on some day other than the Fourth of July-</span></div>
</span> </div>hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8932467600937875359.post-48483097175188112822012-03-26T06:48:00.000-04:002012-03-26T06:48:14.280-04:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Holy Tears<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><br />
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Born of joy, conceived in love, the holy tears stream down His face.</span></div><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Abandoned son, of tortured man, a broken heart cries tears of pain.</span></div><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of sins wept clean, of shame washed dry, the tears they work, unfathomable grace.</span></div><br />
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The tears they fall, they wash the feet, they speak to men, these Holy Tears:</span></div><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">First<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martyr’s death, is it in vain, or are you touched, by God’s own pain?</span></div><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The tears of blood, yet made in love, are these your tears, in measured years?</span></div><br />
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In anguished pain, He stretches arms; He reaches out, high on His Holy Pole with two thieves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Do you see, His healing balm, will you look upon this forgiven serpent’s sting, lifted up, for all to see?</span></div><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Look closer still, into His eyes, drink in those tears of glorious love, and see, blind man, see.</span></div><br />
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Amen. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Taste and see that the Lord is good….</span></div><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ps. 34 v. 8 </span></div>hank wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15854269670894659728noreply@blogger.com0