Category: Other Poetry

The radiance of your truth appears
In semblance of the bread and wine
To shine away our darkened fears
Through feast of love on which we dine.

Our hearts and minds together bow
Before reality, perceived
By faith, that understanding sows
And blooms in love by grace received.

Your Trinity illumines all
As clarity grows day by day,
And beauty of your truth enthralls
Our souls bathed in your cleansing rays.

Old Eden’s veil begins to lift;
Her fog in minds now dissipates–
Blows into us your Spirit’s gifts
From Father, takes us past the gate.

We see on hill your Calvary’s Cross
And find we’ve eaten of its fruit;
Your Tree of Life we once had lost
Now found on branch from Jesse’s Root.

All truth before us here is spread
From Eden to Jerus’lem New
Revealed in rising from the dead.
Hosannas sing to Him who’s true!

Of us you came and died and rose
     To lift our eyes above,
Your truth and beauty to disclose
     On earth from heaven’s love.

We cannot fathom what it’s like
     To give so great a gift:
Surrender to the Cross’ height
     And with you all us lift.

You say I will not equal grasp
     My place at Father’s side;
I’ll enter world that will not last,
     With Adam’s kin abide.

Not able we to keep you here
     In world of sin and death;
Instead you take us where You were
     On Holy Spirit’s breath.

And now with gift received from You
     We in your world will live:
To all mankind, not just a few,
     Your priceless gift we’ll give.

How often do we try to build
A Babel Tower for ourselves
So we will never need to yield
To Him who made us for Himself?      

Yet all our efforts come to naught,
And happiness eludes our grasp,
For we’re not happy ’till we’re caught
By Him who saves us from that asp,

For Tower built by human hands
Is in the Devil’s workshop planned,
And we have built upon the sand—
Against the storms will never stand.

When Tower falls, we turn to Him
Who built His Church upon a Rock,
And when we run to enter in,
We find the Church’s door unlocked.

We step within, and we are washed
In water cleansed from Jacob’s Well;
It comes within and hearts are crushed
To cleanse our hearts from Satan’s spell.

Then we’re swept clean by Cross’s broom
And clothed and fed with Body, Blood
Of Him whose house has many rooms–
Against the tides of time has stood.

As we go further in and up
With family and our friends around,
Forever we can drink His cup
Of joyfulness: at last we’re found. 

You come to us amidst the storm
     Of wind and water poured
From side from whence the Church is born–
     Your terrible swift sword.

A sword of truth through Your world cuts,
     Exposes all our sin;
Cocksureness can no longer strut
     When we are dead within.

Within we are by Spirit touched
     By truth from heaven comes
With You who love the world so much
     You come to take us home.

A home is earth when raised above
     To heaven’s footstool be.
Your Eden is renewed with love;
     Our eyes once blind now see–

Now see new life in storm you bring
     In blessed Trinity;
As Image Yours we’re meant to sing
     Of You eternally.

Lord, may your grace prevenient
Guide journey’s every step,
For it is my intent
That none of self be kept. 

May Holy Spirit dwell in me–
From all my sin to set me free.   

Repenting of my sin
Convicting grace reveals,
May I be born again:
By Holy Spirit sealed.

May Holy Spirit dwell in me–
From all my sin to set me free.   

Then on to glory take
My new enraptured soul,
And me for heaven make:
Again be fully whole.

May Holy Spirit dwell in me–
From all my sin to set me free.   

Lord, You will never hide Your face,
And all we are and do You see,
For You created human race
To be what You want each to be;

But we have sinned and tried to hide      
Behind a fig leaf from Your sight,
For we cannot Your gaze abide;
It fills us with a horrid fright;

Yet gentle You will come to us
As Babe with Mary You abide,
To say that You still will us trust
To see Your truth, come to your side;

And so we come to die with You
As bathed in water, blood You pour,
And covered with Your morning dew
On Spirit’s wings we with You soar;

And now we see Your face again
And revel in the light You give
To all who’re now made free from sin
And with Your Father, Mother live. 

From our sin we awake and see the dew
From heaven’s fountain splashed upon the earth—
Bathes world in dawn, and not for just a few,
But on all who consent to His new birth.

All tongues are born again to praise His name,
Who in creation said that all is good–
Then He through Mary’s “yes” among us came,
And with Him we will die upon His Rood.

Yet, from His side on Cross a fountain pours
To bathe the earth in His forgiving love
From heaven by His Spirit o’er earth soars
To join His earth with Father’s love above.

Awake at last are we, not cast away,
As Father, Son, and Spirit have their way. 

His heaven’s power touches us,              
And we are made anew—
Transforms within our earthly dust;
     By heaven we’re imbued.

From heaven comes His earthly might
     To guide each one within;
It’s deeper than our earthly sight
     And frees each one from sin.

And once He comes, He never leaves
     No matter what we do,
For gift He gives is to believe
     In Him who’s always true. 

Jesus, I trust in You;
Jesus, I trust in You.

At daybreak, Lord, your mercy overwhelms
The nighttime darkness of committed sin,
As your forgiveness paints dawns earthly realm
With heaven’s light, and we begin again.

The cool, fresh air is by your Spirit breathed
And wafts within the mercy of your dawn,
As sin is wiped away that has you grieved,
And we are claimed by One for whom we’ve longed.

Forever now we have new life to live
With feet on earth and heart with you above,
And we receive the truth you have to give,
Wrapped in your mantle of undying love.

May daybreak capture every human heart
And give each day to us a brand new start.   

My scarlet-colored sin is washed away
By Blood He shed on Cross at Calvary,
And now I pray with me He’ll have His way
And from my old creation set me free.

To be a creature new in Christ I long,
For with Him in me I won’t go astray;
Together to our Father we belong.
By Spirit know His Resurrection Day–

A Day that comes in me at Holy Mass
When I consume His Body and His Blood
That from the inside wash away my past,
And with them His new life will in me flood.

Praise God for His new creature I’ve become!
As His Word says,  “In you My will is done.”