A little love, now lost to us
We felt your presence, long for your touch
We grieve, for you are out of reach
Though near in heart, feel every beat
Our life goes on, your life will too
In memory, we think of you
We’ll tell your story, when we speak
The little love we lost, so sweet
A merciless master
My suffering prolonged
O sin, you would have me
Alone, without song
My saviour, the servant
Compassion’s concern
Would pursue all my rescue
E’en while I yet spurned
With glory obscured
Power hidden, en-veiled
He served us, his humans
Then the mountain he scaled
Raised to be lowered
Shame brought release
For my sin-burdened soul
To find its long-lasting peace
In your death…
The inherited cycle is broke
Sin’s hold cannot keep me
Your new life brings me hope
Life-blood’s passed on
From parent to child
In your blood shed abroad
I’m no longer beguiled
Sin’s great deception?
That I’m still compelled
To do all its bidding
That I’m under its spell
But my Jesus, you triumphed
In freedom, empowered
A spirit-led choice
To walk the life I’m endowed
With bended knee’s adoration
In restored humanity, stand
Before the depth of your feeling
Poured over me, by your hand
19/4/2019
Life passes by
The March of time
We hasten, pause
See rain and shine
But each one’s march
Begins and ends
In this we all will share,
My friends
Sometime march
In single file
Or pass the time
En masse, a while
Two-by-two
Lead on, be lead
Keep in step
Or lag instead
Distracted
One may march askew
The wounded
Drag a limb or two
But others may
Lift some on high
And give the march
Of two a try
Onward, though
We all shall plod
Whether we are
Or how we’re shod
Into the vast
Eternity
Our marching out
Parade, will be
16/2/2019
Strolling past, we stop and chat
I’m riding out, you’re riding back
Weed my garden, seek my good
Work on the farm, helped ‘cause you could
You ask about my younger charges
Neighbours help with tasks the hardest
Sorting out the shed of heartbreak
Eased you, some, of all my heart ache
Chatting, walking, get to know
As neighbours, friends, then off we’d go
Meeting up, and passing by
Now tears are all that fill my eye
Goodbye
Gina Marie – 8/4/2018
My beginning was first breath from You
Existence, ne’er before been hewn
But love and grace and choice make new
A life that You have given
Rebellion was of all my choosing
But choice from You was all redemption
Beaten, lonely, scorned and bleeding
Your life that you have given
Accepted, chosen loved and wanted
Washed by blood, my purchase granted
Belonging, living, free, untainted
New life that You have given
Free to live in joy unending
Peace and purpose all Your sending
Sing Your praise, all are bending
This life, we have been given
14/5/2015
Turn, O turn! Everyone turn
Who has been turned away
Return, restore, give back and walk
The life of right, be swayed
To turn from right to wickedness
Will bring to you a death
Turn from wickedness to right
Into light of life be swept!
I will judge each one of you
According to your ways
I take no pleasure in one’s death;
O turn and live today
My Son, for wickedness has died
His righteousness will give
To those who turn and will remain;
Abide in Him and live!
15/5/2014
Oh, mother of mine
Whose love, so divine
Was comfort to all
Whenever we’d call
Inviting us in
After thought or at whim
Grace and mercy all round
Loving arms to surround
Providing tastes to delight
Waiting up in the night
Home and clothing so clean
Diligence gone unseen
Growing gardens of flowers
Beholding beauty was ours
Grace was personified
In your life, now glorified
A piece of us left with you
When to Christ’s feast you flew
What joy it will be
When greets us, Saviour and thee
4/5/2014
I love you Mum, my mum
The Bible, Matthew 27:27-56;
‘The Passion of the Christ,’ movie by Mel Gibson;
Three Scenes, Tom Wall 1. Jesus endures the mocking 2. Jesus endures the cross 3. Jesus is no ordinary man, Corowa Presbyterian Church.
Oswald Chambers
Sin…is not wrong doing, it is wrong being, deliberate and emphatic independence of God…
Independence of our designer, creator and restorer.
As was mentioned today; a $50 note that has fallen in the toilet, the kitty litter, the mud, or anywhere else that would make it dirty, would still be of value to me. So is our value to Jesus, no matter how dirty our independence of Him has made us.
If Jesus was kept from death, I would have been kept from life.
Does God have to reveal Himself as I determine, for me to believe Him; or do I believe Him because of how and who He has already revealed Himself to be?
It was my sin that held Him there, until it was accomplished.
His dying breath has brought me life, I know that it is finished.
Stuart Townend – ‘How deep The Father’s Love For Us’
Steven Curtis Chapman – Take Another Step
And now here you are. You’re afraid to move. ‘Cause you don’t know where to go. ‘Cause you don’t know what to do.
Take another step, take another step. When the road ahead is hard, and you don’t know where to go.
Take another step, take another step. Trust God and take another step, and another step, and another step. Take another step, and another step, and another step…
And there we are. Nothing to hold on to, but the promises God’s made to me and you…
Take another step…
If there’s an ocean in front of you, you know what you’ve gotta do…take another step, and another step. Maybe He’ll turn the water into land, and maybe He’ll take your hand and say, “Let’s take a walk on the waves, will you trust me either way? And take another step, take another step.”
I’m going one step at a time; just as Steven Curtis Chapman, and Charles Spurgeon, and Oswald Chambers, and Amy Grant, and Rich Mullins have been reminding me.
When I had children who were born with blindness, it seemed the water was turned into land.
Life right now seems more like walking on the waves – large, ominous, crashing waves!
I will continue to take ONE more step.
Lying dead and lifeless
That which has fallen from above
When touched by heat and spark
Will a firestorm, behove
Though dead to life of tree
Now feed to living flame
Producing heat, destruction
None will ever be the same
The flame takes all alive
Toward the point of death
All living, true and permanent
Will shoot with a new breath
Refine me, prove what’s true
Remove all not of Thee
Breathe Your life into me
Life that with, You’re fully pleased
29/12/2013
