Author: householdoftheholyfamily

A ROSE IS BORN TO LILY BLUE

In dark of night made dead by Eden’s sin
A Rose of Sharon born to Lily Blue,
And with them Eden will begin again
With life raised from His grave is born anew.

For Sharon’s Rose will pour His life Blood red
From manger to His Cross o’er all the earth,
And with His Body, Blood we all are fed—
Are taken through His grave to our new birth.

So Jesus is the hope of all the world:
Comes in the black as pitch of Eden’s night,
And swaddling clothes will be grave clothes unfurled,
For truth in Him shows forth His heaven’s light.

We celebrate the birth of Sharon’s Rose
To Lily through whom Eden’s dawn now glows. 

THE GARMENT OF TRUTH

Please make your truth my garment worn within
To cloak my heart from inside will turn out,          
As you from deep in me cast out my sin.
With love you make me who I’ve always been—
Your mercy for me never leaves a doubt;
Please make your truth my garment worn within

As I, immersed in grace, will help you mend
The world, no longer Satan’s strong redoubt,
As you from deep in me cast out my sin;

And joined with all who in you are your kin
Together will ascend your holy mount;
Please make your truth my garment worn within

That I no longer may with lies pretend
That I alone can Satan’s armies rout,
As you from deep in me cast out my sin.

May I from you breathe in our Father’s Wind
And learn what life on earth is all about.
Please make your truth my garment worn within
As you from deep in me cast out my sin. 

TRUTH FOREVER LASTS

Our mem’ries come from lives are past
     To point the way before,
For our lives will forever last
     As we on Spirit soar.

Our once-upon-a-time is now, 
     Eternity’s own gift,
When we before Your monstrance bow
    And earth to heaven lifts.

Where You are in our past made clear–
 It takes our breath away—
For all that’s in our hearts held dear
     Forever with You stays.

And then the future opens wide
     That’s seen in light from past,
As in your way do we abide:
     Your truth forever lasts. 

CREATION’S HEART

Your wisdom sees the harmony of all
As angels play your glorious symphony,
And you give us your wisdom when we call
To see creation’s heart that sets us free.
In your creation’s center glory dwells
In Three who are a likeness of yourself
Who’ve come with heart of yours—Emmanuel—
Restores our race to perfect human health.
Each living family here can now begin,
With all those families who have gone before,
To live in paradise with you again,
Join angels, to your Trinity adore.
We taste the fruit of life from Cross you raise,
For tomb is empty, and we sing your praise. 

HIS CLEANSING RAIN

His cleansing rain upon us falls,
     A blessing from above,
Baptizes us who on Him call
     With sacrificial love.

His water bears to us His Blood
     Atones for all our sin;
As we with Mary ‘neath Him stood,
     Are through her born again.

His Blood His Body also bears;
     Both enter into us–
Consumes in His love all our fears,
     Breathes life into our dust.

Our clay is formed by Spirit’s hand
     As in us water breathed;
New life through us comes to His land–
     No more is His heart grieved.

And now hope rises with His rain;
     We drink His blessings down,
And washed away is all our pain
     As in us grace abounds. 

INCENSE TAKES OUR PRAYERS

Our incense wafts above from thurible
To take our prayers to Son at Father’s hand,
For Satan’s stench on earth is terrible
As evil spirits move throughout our land.
Please hasten, Lord, to help in our distress,
Breathe Father’s Spirit in our troubled souls,
Forgive our sins and then through us address
Our earth to join with heaven and make whole.
Then our prayers will with angels’ praise unite,
Proclaim your Triune glory over all,
As your truth is for all of us your light,
And mercy triumphs over Adam’s fall.
Our prayers are seen to be of great avail—
For over evil in us You prevail. 

CALLED FORTH

His Eucharist now calls us forth
     To leave ourselves behind
To find in Him our sacred worth:
       Our true selves there to find.

His Body, Blood become our own
     As we are born again;
His seed in us by Father sown,
     And we are free from sin.

His Spirit quickens life in us,
     And all is fresh and new;
We look at world and in Him trust,
Baptized in morning dew.

This life we see is but a step
     To heaven where we’ll be,
For Triune Love has all us kept
     Alive in Trinity. 

MARY’S HOLINESS

Seek holiness of heart and life,
And Mary you will find,
For she was first to bring Christ’s light
     To fallen humankind.

His light shined first in Anna’s womb
     When Mary was conceived
To penetrate our eastern gloom:
     His nature she received.

Her sinless nature made her free
     To answer angel, “yes.”
Her holiness we all can see
     When we are on a quest—

A quest for holiness ourselves
     As Christ uniquely lives
In each to bring us Mary’s wealth:
     His Nature from her gives. 

FUTURE RECLAIMS PAST

Your future for me has reclaimed my past
To make it pure for our eternity—
In God’s plan sin was never meant to last,  
So from its grip I’m destined to be free. 
My past is given back when cast is made
And truth beneath the lie is finally seen;
No longer is it covered by death’s shade,
And it is seen for what it’s always been.
Forgiveness will forever mem’ries wash—
Make clean my life that I have lived before–
And I can celebrate in Spirit’s splash
That carries me through heaven’s open door
Where I arrive at last to fully live
The human life that Jesus to me gives. 

OUR DESTINED PARADISE

We travel earth so we can find
A place we can forever dwell
Where heart and soul and strength and mind
In union will be always well—

But here fragmented life we live
On eastern side of gate, now barred,
And union our own wills won’t give
As long as our frail hearts we guard—

But then He comes who’s one of us;
In eastern lands He shares our fate,
And yet His heart His Father trusts
On our side of that eastern gate—

And His obedience for us wins
The land beyond that locked gate lies,
And we can with Him enter in
To find our destined Paradise.