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They
Say
They say;
No creator, no plan,
Out of chaos all began.
No God - only man.
You say;
I was, I saw,
I existed always before.
I made - all this and more.
They say;
No design, no goals,
No purpose for our souls.
Past and future - black holes.
You say;
I wait, I see,
Each heart is known to me.
I will wait - eternally.
Sue
McNaughton |
Push
Play
Push
Your
body to the screaming limits of fatigue.
Mountain,
river, game and race,
Will
you to succeed.
Push
Your
mind to the expansion of the edge you know.
Guru,
book, degree and course,
Lead
and off you go.
Push
Your
life to the insistent beat of lurking stress.
Family,
leisure, work and rest,
More
of less and less.
Push
Your
self-control until you must break up or out.
Money,
power, sex and fame,
On
a roundabout.
Push
Your
play button and hear a sad and empty man.
Tired,
angry, bored, alone,
Not
part of your plan.
Push
His
door and find it opens to the weakest knock.
Prostrate,
broken, free to weep,
Safe upon the rock.
Sue
McNaughton |
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Desperation
We
were so desperate.
Hungry
like fire and thirsty as pain,
And
we crawled on the rubbish heap licking up breadcrumbs
And
taking our water as drips from the drain.
You
were so desperate.
Holy
like fire and passionate as pain,
And
you burned in the bush, on the mountain and altar
And
wooed with your white-hot love time and again.
We
were so desperate.
Feeding
our fires and nursing our pain,
And
we strung up your prophets like flags on our castle
And
feasted inside while they starved in the rain.
You
were so desperate.
Consuming
fire and swallowing pain,
And
you torched death’s abyss and set hell in a fury
And
paid with the blood of the son we had slain.
We
are so desperate.
Hungry
like fire and thirsty as pain,
And
we still climb the rubbish heaps shunning your banquet
And
pass by the fountain to get to the drain.
Sue
McNaughton |
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Worries
I
couldn't sleep.
I
was worried, raw, on edge.
I
got up trying to make sense of things.
"God
I'm so screwed up..."
The
same old worries spilled into the night.
Then.....
fresh words.
"Let
petitions shape your worries into prayers."
Petitions?
I
grabbed for a pen.
Shaping
began.
Liz
MacClure
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Don't
fret or worry.
Instead
of worrying, pray.
Let
petitions and praises shape
Your
worries into prayers,
Letting
God know your concerns.
Before
you know it,
A
sense of God's wholeness,
Everything
coming together for good,
Will
come and settle you down.
It's
wonderful what happens
When
Christ displaces worry
At
the centre of your life
The
Message
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