Author: householdoftheholyfamily

In every corner of our lives
An unseen presence with us dwells
With life the Holy Spirit gives,
Breathed through Him who’s Emmanuel.

To each an angel He assigns
To guard us from the Devil’s wiles
Whose evil angels will malign
Each one who is our Father’s child.

Our guardian angels serve each one
With orders from St. Michael giv’n–
For us obey our Father’s Son,
Prepare us each to dwell in heav’n.

For angels we thank Jesus, now
Provides them with His nail-scarred hands,
As we with them to Jesus bow–
Give praise to Him throughout our land.

The Lamb for Isaac sacrificed
Has come before us crowned with thorns,
For Devil has us all enticed—
In thicket caught, we’re all forlorn.

But Cross becomes an altar laid
With Son who gives His life for us,
And for our sin our debt He paid
To give new life to earthly dust.

Our grave is not our final rest,
For He has made it Eden’s Gate;
We enter and complete our quest
That we’ve been on since Adam ate.

His Cross for us an altar built
Is Tree of Life for us is grown;
We eat and do not suffer guilt—
His Body, Blood in us is sown.

Then His new life in all is raised,
Unique in each, one of a kind;
His love for us each one will save—
Our sin with thorns no longer binds.

With purpose and so silently
     They glide on wings unfurled
On mission from His Trinity
     To earth, His priceless pearl.

For earth, once fallen, now is saved
     By Son from Father’s heart,
And angels come with words He gave,
     His wisdom to impart.

With open eyes and child-like faith
     We will His angels see,
And know there’re here to bring us grace,
     From fear to set us free.

On Spirit’s breath they to us fly
     From Father through His Son,
As Trinity to us draws nigh:
     Bring vict’ry He has won. 

DEDICATED TO OUR DEAR FRIEND,
MISSY DEBERRY

For us, O Lord, You bend Your bow
     And shoot Your arrows straight:
Hit Adam’s heart where we each sow
     Our death that is sin’s fate.

With love is every arrow tipped,
     Will hit each heart and heal,
And loosen in us Satan’s grip
     Who tried to each heart steal.

Those arrows will not be withdrawn
     For Your love never leaves–
Will open us to coming dawn
     And to our full reprieve.

We see Your bow across the sky
     And know our storms have passed,
For to us all you’re always nigh:
     Our future with You lasts. 

O Lord, come give us Samson’s strength,
And we’ll bring pagan temples down;
Your Church will go to any length
For truth You gave with kingly crown.

The thunder heard on Calvary’s hill
Was crash of stones when temples fell,
And pagan worship You have killed
With Samson’s strength– sounds their death knell.

Yet, unlike Samson You are raised
To life anew Your Church now brings,
For with Your Body, Blood You save,
And we to world Your mercies sing.

For in each one of us You build
A temple where Your Spirit dwells,
And with Your Body, Blood we’re filled;
Forever You’re Emmanuel. 

Both thorns and thistles come from Adam’s ground,
Were cursed when he committed our first sin,
Then woven in a crown of thorns around
The head of Him for us our nature mends.

And through Him all the earth is now redeemed,
Becomes an open gate to Paradise,
For from it bread and wine not what they seem–
Are Body, Blood of Him who paid our price. 

We gather at His feast within the gate,
Look forward to the feast that later comes
With Him who came to earth to share our fate–
Will rise with us as we like Him become.

Those thorns and thistles wound around His head
Adorn the One who rises from the dead. 

Your mercy is like morning dew
To earth that’s parched for lack of rain,
A wet that makes us ever new
Within our human bout with pain.

For all will suffer here on earth
As image You renew in us,
And wet from font brings second birth–
Gives us the gift in You to trust.

The dew is changed to Bloody Wine
To nourish us on journey here
As to us You say “you are mine,
No longer need you suffer fear,

For mercy’s dew restores your life
And fully you become yourself
As in the world you shine My light
While I return My earth to health.” 

From open tomb You rise to bring new dawn
With wisdom of Your Cross You give to us—
A death of sin for which our hearts have longed—
As Spirit breathes new life in earthly dust.

Your wisdom we learn never in us fades
But grows, is watered by the Spirit’s wind
That blows away the dark of Eden’s shade
And let’s our life You planned anew begin.

When we with You arise from Church’s fount,
You feed us with Your Body and Your Blood
As You with each climb up Your holy mount
On ladder of Your Cross where Life’s Tree stood.

With You, from mount we can our Eden view;
By You redeemed, our hearts make Eden new.