Facebook user

Lately it has occurred to me 
Just how appropriate is this term
"Facebook user" what a laugh? 
Those I have now blocked
Those faceless entities...
Those who thought to lie?
Those who thought to cheat?
Those two words make complete
The description that comes to mind
Those ones : now blocked: now "deleted"
Yes they were "Facebook users "
Those identity thieves: liars, cheaters
Sick of those "Facebook users" 
The ones who seek to steal 
Our freedom: our fun: our peace if mind!
Those users and abusers who find the time
To con and scam: to pretend to be
Anyone but who they truly are!
Poor people: lost in limbo: lost in life!
Do not know how to live their life
Feel the need to cause some strife
Thus they live those pretend lives
Seeking to destroy our peace of mind! 

Time marches on

Oh how I wanted to hear from you
But I understand how it is
Life goes on around us
Times never slows her pace
It marches on to meet it's fate
We are all carried along in her chains
We are: none if us: free from her constraints

How does one explain to the other?
How does one relate the tales of wonder?
Truth is the daughter of time
It will all become evident soon enough
As Jesus comes in clouds of glory
We must tell His magnificent story
We must all do our part: no shirking!
We must all keep on working
Towards that blessed day
When the loud trump is heard
And our dear Lord returns!

Dream of me

Across the stormy seas of life
Far away and out of sight
I think of you: fast asleep
I pray you never suffer such strife
As has been my burden...in this my life
For that would just hurt you my son
My dear one: if it is at all possible
Dream of me across the seas
Yes dream of me as I think of you
Let our minds cross paths over the globe
Let our love enchanted be: for you see
There is something that carries me
Something unknown: some special peace...
How do you explain what you do not understand?
How do you tell of...how do you speak of it?
That mystical awareness...that sense of destiny
Only ever dreamed of...and never yet by me...

Ships in the night

It's almost 6 am and day is dawning
The sun comes creeping into my room
Light is here again: chasing out the darkness
Yes sunlight comes and dissipates the gloom
I wake to find your message
But again I find I am just too late
Just missed you by a whisker
Just missed you by a hair
So I have to wait all day dear
Just to catch you when you're there
It seems we pass each other
Just like silent ships in the dark of night
I know you are out there but
It seems I miss you even when
I try my very hardest to be aware
So I write another message
Say another silent prayer
Hoping you are well protected
Giving to God your precious care!
I read and re-read your message
I wish I could have been awake
But it is too late to hope for that
Because that time has passed
That tiny little window is closed
And now I must just cope
Do the very best I can all day
Until it is time for me to sleep again
Until it is time when you are wide awake
So far away: across the other side
Of this  whole wide world and
It might as well be: across the universe!

Lost at sea

I'm sorry my love
If you feel I've let you down
Please know I always did the best
Anyone could have done!

I tried to hold you up
I tried to get you to move
I tried to do for you
As much as I possibly could!

But you know my love
I could not do it all
Could not live your life for you
That was beyond my control!

Though I tried to pull you out from
The wreckage of your life
It was just beyond my power
It was all just beyond my means!

Told you so very many times
"Jesus loves you: turn to Him!"
But you just didn't want to hear me
You just didn't want to believe!

I'm sorry that you were lost at sea
Though you lived and breathed
Right here beside me
You were gone too far to save!

How could I be your saviour?
I am just a simple human being
It was never in my power
To save you from yourself!

Dear Jesus is our Saviour
He it is who surrrendered all
Gave His life to save us
Gave it all for me and you!

Oh Lord though I tried
Though I pleaded: begged
The downward pull was just too much
Everything I did: just wasn't enough!

Deep blue sea

The sea calls me to her
She calls me to simply be near
Negative ions bring refreshment
Salty water reminds me of tears
A few fishermen are angling
Way up high on the jetty
Though I doubt they are successful
For I saw only tiny little schools
The beautiful sea grasses waving
Playing hide and seek
Now you see the coral
Now you don't
A few tiny fishes swimming
Cheek to cheek
I guess there is safety in numbers
I guess that's how it is
We invade the ocean
Steal and plunder
Give nothing back which they might need
A few worms: shiny lures
A nibble for fishy lips
That is the depth of man's greed
I suppose the anglers seek their dinner
Each and every day of the week
No dinner here today I ponder
Everywhere is overfished
Too much take and not enough giving
Very few caring
About precious nature
That's the main problem
Of which I speak!

It's so easy to complain

It's always so easy for others to bitch 

And moan about another's choices

It's always so easy to just complain 

But unless we stand up and raise our voices

Unless we stand together 

And make our voices heard 

How can we ever hope to make a better world? 

Were you there when she made her choices? 

Were you ever there: wearing her troubled shoes? 

Did you offer any words of comfort?

Did you offer up any words to ease her problems? 

Did you ever do anything but complain? 

How do you expect to see into someone else's world? 

How to understand another's life and choices? 

If you've never ever been the one so constrained? 

A dream of Tim

I dreamt of you the other night
It was a silly dream: that's right 
The two of us were going up 
To Sedan to collect our things 
All the furniture we'd yet to get 
In this crazy dream she was upset 
Wouldn't let us get inside 
Wouldn't let us collect it all
She left us there and went away 
But you had thought it out 
You'd touched the lock before she left 
The door just opened to your softest touch 
Thus we were able to complete 
The task that we'd been set
Until many others came
Then we had to run away 
She was upset about the damage
To the house: underneath
Caused by the flood 
Said it was dangerous...
Said it wasn't fair...
Ah the silly things we dream of 
Those silly things that concern us
In our waking moments 
These sill things that return to us
Cime to play upon our minds 
As we try to get some precious sleep!

Why do you flee?

Why do you always run away?
Why do you always disappear?
When I'm getting serious?
Why do you always have to say?
You have to go: when I am
Speaking of important things
Things that matter to me
Things that matter to my soul?
Things that matter to your soul?
It makes me feel unwanted
It makes me feel depressed
Just when I get going
Just when I'm ready to express
My deepest innermost thoughts
You excuse yourself and flee!
Well what about me?
What about hearing me out?
What about listening?
Please hear me out for a change
Or do you think I'm just too strange?
You make me think it's a waste of my time
The way you just up and go
I don't want to hurt you but...
I am considering: pulling out the plug
So think on this...contemplate...
Then just get back to me...mate!

Is your immortal soul worth the words?
Is it worth the time?
Do you even want to contemplate this?
Have you already made up your mind?
Is it too difficult a task?
Please...just ask yourself?
Please think long and deep...
Please decide before another day
Has gone by...before another sun
Sets in that beautiful evening sky...
Before the book of life is closed
And life is no longer there for you
To live it as you would choose!

Connected through Jesus

Though we are so many miles apart
We are connected by our faith in Jesus
We are closer together in our beating hearts
I pray you are well: no matter where you are!
I pray you are happy and in good spirits
These many blessings I send your way: each and every day
I ask The Lord to send His angels down
To keep you safe from harm
I ask that He brighten you precious days
I ask that He enlighten your precious mind!
That He bring you joy in each and very way
Yes dear one: all these things and more I pray!
For you as you live and breathe: so far away
On any precious given day: these things I pray!
Amen

Sabbath prayer

Off to church for Sabbath
Another blessed day 
To worship and to savour 
The many blessings that come our way
Though you are across the ocean 
Though you are so far way 
I ask The Lord to bless you 
I ask for your happiness 
Yes my dear friends; my neighbours 
These are the words I pray! 
Amen 

Weasels

A face book picture so true
I reckon so: don't you?
A lady giraffe: disappointed
In her search for love
She thought she'd succeeded
Thought she'd found: her true love
But she was upset: dismayed
For she has been betrayed!
That tall handsome stranger
The one she thought to love
Was nothing but a deception
A con; a letdown; no love!
It was a major problem
For you see she was betrayed
It was no handsome giraffe
Hiding within that cool trench coat
No love for her; no forever after
But a group of 58 weasels
Con artists; scammers; lying stoats!
So if you think you've found HIM
If you think to find TRUE LOVE!
You'd better think again!
Pray for guidance darling
Ask for help from God above
For those weasels; those lying scoundrels
Are hiding everywhere
Ready to deceive and take you
Totally unawares!

Laughing out loud...

Flying high

Fly high my precious children

Soar high like tiny doves

Satan is like the hawk that hovers

But you my precious ones: I love!

Never fear for I am with you!

Never stray my dearest ones

I carry you into battle

I will not let you fall

For my children I have saved you

I have already given you my all!

Even before I knew you

Yes before time began!

I am the beginning and the ending

I am the great I am! I know you still!

Be strong and of good courage

I stand beside you all the way

Yes, even in this evil darkness

Yes, even unto that great day

Soon I will return my dear ones

Soon I will take you up into the heavens

To be my precious jewels

Yes, those precious jewels in my crown!

So, slumber not, my dear ones

Bring lamps: bring oil

Cease not your every toil

The bridegroom is returning

The celebration will come

But just a little longer

But just a little time

I will be with you forever

No longer will you cry!

That shining day is almost upon you

Weary not your precious feet

For though it seems prolonged dear

Soon I will be there to meet

My precious children

My precious ones

Be ready! Soon I come!

Be steady

Be steady weary soldier

Be strong and stand your ground

No matter the arrows: Satan uses

You must fight on: stand proud

Put on your Godly armour

Put on your miraculous device

God’s love: His words: your refuge

God’s plans: His days un-numbered

With His love you will survive!

So stop and think of

How Jesus died for you

It is already decided

Know it is the blessed truth!

Destruction draws nigh

Satan comes to be our destruction

Satan comes to blot out all light

He is the great impersonator

The great liar; cheater; our blight!

He will even try to trick us

By pretending to be our blessed Christ!

While truth is in slumber

Lies fly across the world

Satan never ceases: is always working

He never stops; never sleeps

Ever always he is waiting

Just beyond your imaginings

Just beyond your sleep

You must never falter: you must never fall!

For he is waiting to steal your life blood

He is waiting to steal your soul!

Stand firm

God has given pardon

God has paid your price

So stand firm true believers

Never give in to Satan’s device

Look ever upward to your Saviour

Yes, to Him who holds the gate!

Satan’s darts may sting you

But never ever hesitate

Look upward Christian soldier

Do not turn: never look back

For Satan also climbed the ladder

But was halted along the track

Though he was the brightest angel

Though he thought to be the best

God tossed him out of heaven

God tossed him out in disgrace

God showed us all his trickery

God showed us all his true face

So though he tries to claim us

Though he seeks to make us fall

Never give in to his evil angels

Never surrender up your goal!

Deception and lies

The great deceiver: Satan

Impersonates the good one

Satan tries to devise

Tricks to bring us undone

He is the soul taker

The heart breaker

Nothing is too much

Nothing is too small

He will draw you in

He will steal your soul

They say that

Sin enters like a pin prick

Spreads like roots of oak

So be wary, lonely traveller

He hides beneath his cloak

Satan has many helpers

Satan brings many trials

Each more dangerous than the other

Each as smooth as his lies

Can you tell when he is coming?

Are you able to recognise?

His visage beneath the masks

His tricks within those eyes

He is the soul taker

He is the man with a thousand eyes

Sees every little trail you offer

Knows every little secret of your lives

Do not let any word slip past your lips

He is ready to deceive you

Ready to demoralise

Every little pain you carry

Every little secret lie!

Is ready to be used against you

Ready to be flung back in your eyes!

The hour of shadows

In the Garden of Gethsemane
Below the Mount of Olives
Jesus spent His last hours
Alone: sorting out His destiny
Though He asked His disciples
To stay awake: to pray for Him
Though He begged His Father
Begged to be set free: He pleaded
"Take this cup from me!"
He knew it just could not be!
So as He offered up His prayers
As He fought for humanity
It was in the hour of shadows
That He was assaulted
By that unnatural enemy
Satan came and tempted
Satan came to change
But though he tried his darnedest
He could not conquer the Son of Ages
He could not steal our destiny
Though he wheedled and whiled
Though he fought tooth and nail
Jesus the precious Son of our Lord
Held strong to His Father
Held strong to His beliefs
Knowing it was all predestined
Knowing it was: had to be!
He fought for us even harder
To save us: to save humanity!

Just across the border

How many of us actually understand?
How very lucky we may be?
How many truly comprehend?
How blessed to be so free?
We live these insular little lives
We have everything we could possibly need
Whilst over the ocean: not so far away
People every day: are going hungry!
We have our three square meals
Our gadgets and our our tellys
But just across the waters
Just across a few imaginary borders
They have so very little
Barely anything that we would class as feed
No modern cons no shopping malls
Just a few bare floors: bare walls
Lord help us to think upon these problems
Lord help us to bridge the widening gaps
If only we could give more to help
Maybe open up the gates of these dams
These inconsiderate traffic jams of life
Give to those who truly need it
Give to those who starve: feed them
Give to those without the pearly gates
For though we have abundance
They have nothing! Please help us!
Help us to make things more even
Open up our hardened hearts
For it is only if we give: we forgive
That The Lord will give to us
Only then that we can hope to receive
Any of His truly glorious magnificence!

Tears from heaven

God’s tears are the rain

His voice the thunderclap

God’s words the lightning bolts

Telling us: the awful day He’s had

Yesterday His tears were pouring

Yesterday He cried so hard

There was hail in the rainstorm

Icy tears He hurled at us!

God cries for all the sinners

God cries for all the lost

He sends His tears earthward

He sends His words to us

Can you not hear Him crying?

Can you not tell He is upset?

Do you wonder at His anger?

Do you forget why He cries?

For so many long, long years

He has laboured to save the lost

Sent His only begotten Son

Paid a heavy price: oh such a cost!

Do you think it did not hurt Him?

Do you think he suffered not?

How would you feel when giving all?

Nobody accepts the gift: the cost?

So when darkness comes upon you?

When the blackness is too deep?

Turn to God and ask forgiveness!

Allow Him to give the peace you seek!

When your thoughts become too heavy

When your questions run too deep?

Remember you are a part of

God’s amazing family: one of His sheep!

He is there to offer comfort

There to bring you release

The blessings of the heavenly Father

The love and understanding that you seek!

 Ask and it shall be given

Seek and you shall find

Knock and the door will open

He is there to open it: He is kind!

Feel the blessings of the rain storm

Feel the showers that do fall

For when we are drenched in His beauty

That’s when we understand His magnificent form!

Stumbling in

Though I slip and I do stumble

Though I slide and almost fall

You are beside me all the way

As I spread your joyful words my Lord

It is at times like these I pray

We all need some one to lift us up

To give us: that little shove!

To keep us upon our narrow way

That road that leads to heaven up above

That long and winding road!

God offers help to guide us

He holds out His mighty hand

Showing how much He truly loves us

Showing how much He truly cares

Showing us it all must go

Just as God has planned!

Tears like raindrops

Though my tears are like rain drops

In the ocean wide

Though my tears are like a spattering

In a massive waterfall

All these drops: when brought together

Become a torrent: a massive watercourse

So gather your tears together

Carry them into the light

For like God’s precious rainbow

They will rise up into the heavens

And return again in new light

Just like His precious words

Just like His infinite love

These tears we cry like rivers

Will spread His words throughout

Darkness will be conquered

That darkness through the night!

Know that our Lord is coming

Spread the joyful word

Touch another’s heart and soul

Show them the heights you aim for

The blessed second coming of our Lord

The mighty Michael returns anon

Though we know not His timing

Though we know not when

He comes: all eyes shall see Him!

In magnificence: in glory

All eyes will turn to Him

He comes among the angels

Among that heavenly host

Those brilliant covering angels

All glory to our Lord

Come dear Lord: dear Jesus

Come quickly Lord we pray

Please return and be our Saviour

Before another tear we cry!                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Holy Spirit come

Holy Spirit I invite you

Holy Spirit, come…

I open up this heart here

I invite you in: know you will come!

The blessings of your words I ask

The more to aid all others: lost in sin

I cry out for those lost ones

I cry out for their pain

For all those lost in sadness

For all those weak and ailing

For all those left waiting for the latter rain

Dear Lord please bless my heart: my hands

Dear lord please bless my mind; my soul

Dear Lord I offer up all I am

To do this precious work for Thee

I give you sole control!

You said it would not be easy

You told me I would stumble; fall

But though I know life is like this

I know your strength is at my call!

We are all blessed soldiers

In God’s army: we must stand

Firm upon the blessed Rock

For though Satan fires his arrows

Though he sends his armies in to fight

We have our Lord and Saviour

We have God’s strength

We have God’s might

We never truly stand alone

Though we battle fiercely…

Though we battle long…

With His armour and His weapons

We will remain strong!

Confession

Tonight: even the street lights look beautiful

Through these my pouring tears but

Thoughts of losing all of my close family

The straw that broke this camel’s back

Those fears that undid me: those worries

Yes: those worries that I should give back

If I should give my worries up in prayers?

The good Lord promises to take them up

To accept the burden in my stead

Ah…these crazy thoughts within my head!

I surrender all to Thee my Lord!

I give up my load of worries, of stress!

That thou might take them from me

That my burden may be less!

It is in these darkest times

That I would truly confess

Dear Lord I want to come to you

I want to lay my head upon your breast

I want to hear your beating heart

Within your mighty loving chest

I want: need your tenderness

I need to use your strength dear Lord

I need you to refill this: my empty cup

Yes; my dearest Lord: my Saviour: my King

This is when I need the fulfillment

Only loving and trusting you can bring!

This is when I crave that contentment

That fills up my greatest need

For as I feel my strength waning…

As I feel this earthly power ebb…

Then I need your God-given refreshment

This blessed love you promise me!

For I am truly feeling empty

Sincerely I do admit: I confess!

I am in great need of your unearthly power

Your love; your understanding: your tenderness!

Free entry

So, how long does it take Lord?

How long before we finally see?

That if we give in to depression?

Then Satan gets the “green light”!

The “go ahead” the “free entry”

The “please come and take me!”

If we give in to all the hurts?

That this life throws at us: constantly!

Does time actually heal all troubles?

Is that just another urban myth?

Shouldn’t we appreciate our Saviour?

The greatest love: our greatest gift?

Does “peace” finally come upon us?

Does it finally “just settle in?”

Ah…these many questions Lord!

I have not the answers! I give in!

Questions in my mind

Does the loneliness ever get easier to bear?

How do people get through their days?

Without their God to assist them?

Without that hope that He portrays?

They must be miserable indeed!

Without His blessing: without His seeds?

All these words: running through their heads

The unbearable cacophony: the noise!

If there is no place to run to?

No blessed sanctuary: any blessed release?

For me it is the seaside

For me it is the crashing waves!

There I head whenever life dismays!

Ah…the absurdity of it all, Lord

The sadness of so many endless days

So, come Lord! Shine your light into my darkness!

Come light up these darkened skies

I try to look at all these things that

Are bothering me: try to laugh

To ease the unbearable emptiness

It lifts my mood a little: the sadness is: less!

So, if sharing a problem halves it?

Why not ask for that necessary aid?

That simple solution in these crazy days!

So dear Lord: I ask: help me!

So dear lord: I knock: open the door!

So dear Lord: I seek: help me to find!

That blessed peace I desperately long for

I will not give in to sadness!

I will not fall beneath the waves

For Satan seeks to claim me but

My Saviour leads my steps!

So as I look out into the darkness

As I listen to the waves calling unto me

Here I find the peace I seek

Yes: here beside the turbulent seas

I know that Jesus is right beside me!

Even as I speak!

Sounding board

When you need someone to talk to?

Someone to listen to your words!

When you feel so sad, miserable

Too down to cope with this evil world?

When you don’t really need their answer

Just a listening ear: a sounding board!

When everyone is just too busy?

Is there someone you can call?

Someone to make that faintest echo

Of your Saviour: your redeemer: your Lord?

When you’re feeling sad: don’t even know why?

You feel abandoned: so alone in this crazy world?

Do you know that God loves you?

Do you even realise: He understands!

Do you believe in the power of prayer?

Can you even fathom God’s amazing plan?

You ask: why does life have to be so hard?

Why does life have to be so difficult?

The tears come pouring from your eyes

Can’t even see: can’t comprehend your life

Questioning yourself: your life: your reasons?

For all the things that get you down

“Why would anyone want to love me?”

That age old question: regularly gets me down

Terrible sinner that I am: what’s wrong with me?

When will all this pain just stop?

The stupidity of these…simple questions

Is this madness? Is it truly so?

The laughter and the crying: together…

The enemy is at the gates!

He seeks to pull me down

Dragging me away from my Saviour

My redeemer, my unearthly crown!

So “Get thee behind me Satan!”

I will not let you be the victor

I will not be another one of your spoils

I will not let you win this soul!

Archaeology of my life

Digging deep through the layers

Searching for what was the past

Pieces of history: pieces of a life

Less than perfect: less than…

What I expected maybe?

Never what I wanted: needed

How does one unravel a life?

How does one seek and finally find

The answers to all the questions

Within that earthly, troubled mind?

How can one possibly understand?

The workings of a superior intellect?

This life that I’ve been living…

This less than perfect existence…

All the ups and all the downs!

God designs and we just follow

That’s the way it goes: it’s true

But how can I truly fathom out

The layers, of this crazy, earthly being?

Shipwreck

 I was lost at sea: could not see me

For the tears that poured from my eyes

Though the lights were made pretty

I was forlorn: such a pity: for the pain

Was so terribly real: no sanction for me

No lighthouse there: neither pier nor jetty

Dear Lord I was distressed: devoid of hope

I’m so sorry Lord I that could not cope

I felt so empty: so down into that nitty gritty

So overwhelmed by my guilt: those tears freely spillled

Like showers; no: more like outpouring torrents

If rain showers are God’s tears then

What hope for me? As I cried and cried: it hurt to be

Alone with my thoughts: like dark rain clouds

Cumulo nimbus on that dark night around me

Emotional

Feel so emotional
Tears just want to pour
Out of my sorry eyes
Feel so out of sorts
So emotionally drained
Just want to vent, complain
But nobody's listening
I know you hear me Lord
I need your guiding word
I need you love to fill me up
Please fill this empty cup
I need your support
To hold me up, keep me going!
Sabbath 26/10/14

I have loved you

I have loved you ever since
I found out you were coming
I have loved you  ever since 
I knew you would be mine
I have loved you ever since 
The beginning: that moment in time
I have loved you ever since
I birthed you after those long hours
I have loved you ever since
You were able to smile
I have loved you ever since
You took hold of my finger
I have loved you ever since
You grew beneath my heart
I have loved you ever since
For ever...right from the very start!