Category: Other Poetry

We see His Son rise over darkened land
And know our Father’s love has transformed all,
For His Son’s risen Body is His hand
To save us all from Adam’s tragic fall. 

Our Father gives His Son His Spirit’s breath
To breathe on all of us with open hearts
Who long to be redeemed from sin and death
And have in Father’s world a brand new start.

For sin and death do not to Jesus cling—
His risen Body is now glorified—
And all of us can with His angels sing
As sin and death have now forever died.

Our Father’s whole creation laughs with life
With Spirit’s joy that is unspeakable,
For life is free from death and sin-caused strife
And breathes forever life unquenchable. 

Our yesterdays we think are come and gone,
And yet they still can plague us to this day
Until the Lord within us says, “Begone!”
When He forgives our sin and has His way.

Our home that is to come is present now
In Word and Sacrament where Jesus lives;
Through water, bread, and wine He keeps His vow
To claim each one of us as always His.

In water, Spirit comes to through us flow,
And bread becomes His Body, wine His Blood,
So real world with Him we forever know
As we stand ‘neath the Cross where Mary stood.

We live in present and eternity
With mem’ries of the past and future dreams,
And Son of God decides what is to be
As past and future He in us redeems.

Through death we pass to resurrected life
With Him who seeks Himself to each one give,
And darkness in each one gives way to light
As we with all redeemed His new life live. 

The Devil howls in his defeat
When he sees Our Lord’s Body raised–
Refuses to His mercy greet,
Acknowledge all creation saved.

From wisdom he forever runs
While everything he tears apart,
And unity forever spurns
Turns back on love our Lord imparts.

But we all glory in His grace
Proclaimed on earth in Body seen
Of Our Lord, dead, then raised from grave
To take us where we’ve never been.

Our destiny’s to be transformed
With Jesus to be glorified
In body new by Jesus formed–
Grown from the old that with Him died. 

He is the Rock who water gives
    That we may thirst no more–
Who gives His life that we may live
    In Holy Spirit’s pour.

His Spirit to us water brings
    To bathe us in new birth,
And we with Him Hosannas sing—
    Know joy in Father’s mirth.

For joyful laughter is the fruit
    Of our Baptismal wet
When grafted into Jesse’s Root;
    We’re caught in Jesus’ net.

His water cleanses deep within
    As inside comes from out
To cleanse us each from Adam’s sin—
    Removes from us our doubt.

His image in us He now claims
    To live with Him above,
For all along this is His aim:
    We live in Triune love.

A prisoner I no longer am;
From chains I’ve been set free.
No longer slave in eastern lands,
I can be fully me.

The world without so different looks
When my sin taints it not;
I see there’s nothing God forsook—
From all removes sin’s blot.

My freedom means I’m free to see
The goodness lies beneath
And see the world as meant to be
Beneath His olive wreath.

For wreath from Him us all wraps ‘round
As we breathe heaven’s air—
Makes all our earth His holy ground:
Again, His garden fair.

O Lord, come in my secret place
     Where I have kept my fear;
Invade me with Your healing grace
     As You to me draw near.

Use this for my eternal good
     And for my family too–
Together stand where Mary stood,
     Your Trinity in view.

May Holy Family intercede
     For all of us below
That Your Son’s Blood for us will bleed
     His truth in hearts to know.

May we know now what always is
     That we are made by You.
To all, eternal life You give;
     We sing Your praise anew. 

Where is the peace for which we long?
     It’s found within our hearts,
For there we know that we belong
     To Him who life imparts.

For life from Him’s the greatest gift,
     The source from which we love,
As praise from lips to Him we lift–
     Soars on the wings of Dove.

From dark desires He sets hearts free
     So life from Him is loosed,
And we are who we’re meant to be,
     The bearers of His truth.

His truth is peace that sets hearts free
     To love and to adore:
His truth that we are meant to see
     And live forever more. 

He hides Himself to enter us
     To bring His Cross within
And crucifies our Adam’s dust
     So we’ll be born again.

His life in each will new arise,
     And we see Eden new,
Enlightened by His own Son’s rise
     To sparkle with His dew.

That wet baptizes all inside,
     Our sin is washed away,
And He in us will now abide
     To lead us to His day.

That day on earth to heaven linked
     By Holy Family Three;
We eat His flesh and His Blood drink
     And bend to Him our knee.

With all in whom He does now dwell,
     We celebrate new life,
For cast away from Satan’s spell,
     We’re bathed in heaven’s light. 

He hurls His hailstones at our sinful hearts
To pierce them with His ever-living love,
And we discover His love from the start
Created us to live with Him above.

Those hailstones hurled from heaven meant to save
All His creation of which we’re the link
With heaven that with earth He to us gave
And we’re not meant in hell below to sink.

For gate between the two is Eden New,
As hailstones water Garden we once left
And in baptism Eden springs anew
To life from which we once were there bereft.

His hailstones bring salvation from above
Are meant to heal with His undying love. 

Come, grow those good seeds I have sown
That Your good crop will choke the bad,
And I can see what You have grown
To conquer weeds that make me sad.

May harvest come that I can see
What You have done to save my soul;
At last I can be truly me
With soul and body make one whole.

May I taste resurrection here
And know what with You there awaits,
As You from me now take all fear
And with my family celebrate.

For family is where love abounds,
And each will always be with all,
For love unfettered knows no bounds
When voices one on You will call.