Category: Other Poetry

God’s natural law is heaven’s scroll
     Unrolled within our hearts;
Is meant to guide both young and old,
     His wisdom to impart.

For on that scroll is heaven’s seal,
     His guarantee of truth;
And this is what on earth is real.
     Here is the final proof.

In us on earth His heaven seen 
By all along His way,
And His law is what’s always been;
     His Word here has His say. 

Within each one His kingdom reigns,
     His sovereignty assured;
For with His law each one He claims
     And saves from Satan’s lure. 

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.   

We’ll be like dawn in early spring
     When birds are singing sweet,
And everyone their gifts will bring 
    To lay at Jesus’ feet.

No gift is greater than the rest,
     For each gift is unique;
And all together are the best,
     Each one with no repeat.

No act of ours has brought this dawn;
     New Eden now we view.
We find for what we’ve always longed:
     A home that’s old but new.

See here and there familiar sights
     Transformed to should have been,
For all was wrong is now made right:
     There’s no more death and sin. 

You shape the hearts of everyone
To make them just His size,
And then you enter with God’s Son,
Who makes each of us wise.

The Son will speak to each His Word
     In Father’s voice with love;
Inspired by You we call Him Lord,
Brought to us from above.

And we can see in every heart
     How He’s in each unique,
For each of us He’s set apart
     By Word with no repeat.

Each one knows joy in other’s gifts
     As hand-in-hand we go;
To heaven each one He will lift
     Because He loves us so. 

The water poured on us is Spirit-filled,
And we drink life from Jesus’ empty tomb,
For on His Cross our sinful self is killed,
And from this fount we’re born from Church’s womb.

O’er all the world now blows His Spirit’s wind
From Father, sweeps away all Satan’s guile,
And all the earth through Him is born again–
Forever now is free from Satan’s wiles.

His Spirit’s fire away burns Satan’s lair,
Yet Eden by His flame is not consumed–
Becomes again His heaven’s garden fair
Where heaven’s life on earth is now resumed.

His water, wind, and fire bring life anew
Through Son who’s born of Woman dressed in blue. 

Come, Jesus, breathe your fire in me
To burn away my unbelief,
That faith within I clearly see
And know my unbelief’s a thief.

For Devil in me sows his seeds
To grow in me his lack of faith
And turn away from Him who bleeds–
Make me believe in Devil’s hate.

Yet fire within me brings His light
To see that hate is ill conceived—
Cannot stand up to our Lord’s might
And will no longer me deceive.

My unbelief in me is burned
And never will exist again;
No longer will I Jesus spurn
Whose Spirit’s fire burns up my sin. 

Your Body, Blood are offered for us Lord
That we may eat and drink your charity,
As with our body, blood, we You adore.

For You tie us to You with crimson cord—
We in your priesthood share humility—
Your Body, Blood, are offered for us Lord.

A victim we become as Your life poured—
In heart of each Your sacrifice can see—
As with our body, blood, we You adore.

Our sacrifice for You is spirits poor
That others see You with more clarity—
Your Body, Blood are offered for us Lord.

Through us Your Spirit for the world will soar
To fill the world with Holy Trinity,
As with our body, blood, we You adore.

Your hand in us takes up Your Spirit’s sword,
And we become who we are meant to be—
Your Body, Blood are offered for us Lord,
As with our body, blood, we You adore. 

Let virtues be my watchmen at the gate
To dangers of my vices early spy,
That I may at the last escape the fate
Of those on earth who fall for Satan’s lie.
May I surrender to the Lord of Hosts,
Whose soldiers are those virtues in my heart,
And I will never of my own strength boast
For I know virtues are His to impart.
On world outside the gate my virtues gaze
And see beyond our sin, redemption there,
As Spirit blows away the Devil’s haze,
Reveals the earth is heaven’s portal here.
May virtues always here His soldier’s be
To take me with Him to eternity.

Let virtues be my watchmen at the gate
To dangers of my vices early spy,
That I may at the last escape the fate
Of those on earth who fall for Satan’s lie.
May I surrender to the Lord of Hosts,
Whose soldiers are those virtues in my heart,
And I will never of my own strength boast
For I know virtues are His to impart.
On world outside the gate my virtues gaze
And see beyond our sin, redemption there,
As Spirit blows away the Devil’s haze,
Reveals the earth is heaven’s portal here.
May virtues always here His soldier’s be
To take me with Him to eternity.

We yearn for life to be complete
With sin forever wiped away,
And virtues in us are replete
As dawn breaks on an endless day.

That longing is for Him alone,
For only He can make us right
And for our sin on Cross atone–
Remove from us the Devil’s blight.

Come, Holy Spirit, with us soar
With Virgin Mother to His side
Where we all come with spirit’s poor
And riches find when we abide.

He then completes our life, earth-born,
But destined to in heaven live,
And all our sin by Cross is shorn,
As we have learned He us forgives.