Category: Poems

To LOVE is the most beautiful thing we could ever do,
The most beautiful that could ever be done for us…
Yet to love in this life, we must look beyond the crooked,
the dirty and the unpalatable.
To be able to LOVE, one must love in places
Where comfort is rare, and where pain is deep,
One must love where the storm is fiercest,
And where the light is faint.
For it is not mere excitement that defines love,
It is not a fleeting adventure,
Nor a grand but fading song…
Love is that which is strong enough
To survive the harshest winter
And the monotony of daily life…
Love is beyond skin, beyond sickness,
beyond frailty, beyond death…
Love is the only thing that remains
after all the darkness fades away,
For Love is light beyond measure and life without end,
Love is God,
And God is the most beautiful of all!

I LOVE YOU MY CHILD

I love you, my child
There is nothing that you can do
that can separate me away from you

You are here always,
within my strong and loving embrace
You are protected
You are loved.

I delight in you,
and see my own eyes upon your eyes
I take away your fears
I take away your tears
from now on you are safe
and you are where you’ve always longed to be.

Let the people who judged you
see how I cherish you now,
Let those who condemn you
see how close you are to me.

You are never outside of my love,
never an outcast
never a failure
never so far away

You need not do anything
to please me,
for I am already pleased
that you trust me
to guide you in everything
you wanted to do

You are beautiful
you are whole
you are healed
you are my beloved
you can rest upon my strong shoulders,
and trust that you won’t ever slip away,
For it is I
who is holding on firmly to you.

Whatever happens, God is with me
and He shall be with me
wherever I may be,
Though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death,
though I see sickness and darkness and despair,
His hand will uphold me
and provide for me.

Whatever happens, God is with me
and He shall reward me
for what I do.
Though the seeds I plant seem not to grow,
though the battles I fight seem to fail,
His hand will save me
and comfort me with hope.

Whatever happens,
whatever sorrow or pain I may taste,
God is with me!
And He will never let me go…
He will bless me all my days
and I shall dwell in His house
where all my tears shall be no more!

What does it matter what they say,
what they say against you,
or how they look down and judge you?
What does it matter what they think of you,
when you know how you are
in the eyes of God?

What does it matter how they see you
or what fault they could find in you,
when you have already found forgiveness
from the One that you love?

What does it matter what they say or do?
You have found mercy and light,
and peace and hope.
You have been saved and destined for good
by the Lord whose words
shall have the final say as regards who you are?

What does it matter what they say?
What matters are the words
God Himself has promised you:
You are His. You are loved. You are etched forever
in the palm of His hand!

I have seen so much beauty in this life,
I have felt overflowing love,
I have been happy,
I have been filled with so much joy!

But O, I have also seen so much hatred
and violence and apathy,
I’ve felt so much sorrow
that almost drained my eyes of tears.
 
I have seen how something so beautiful
could suddenly be corrupted, twisted,
decayed and left to waste.
I have seen how something so wonderful
could suddenly end,
and how something so precious
could suddenly be taken away from you,
tearing both your heart and soul.

What is this life worth then?
What does it all mean?

Why must darkness spoil the light?
Why must love be filled with pain?

Is there a way to restore everything
back to wholeness?
Is there some chance that good
might not end in evil things?

Only God holds the key.
From everlasting to everlasting,
the One who changes not,
whose Light has never grown dim,
and whose beauty never fades,
He alone can save
and keep what’s good and beautiful and true.

Left to ourselves we grow weak.
We turn love to hatred,
we hold something beautiful
and it soon withers away and dies.

With God however, all things are kept,
cleansed and made whole.

Sorrow turns to joy,
Suffering turns to strength.

We approach in ignorance,
and we leave with wisdom;
We approach in fear,
and we leave with courage.

We live forever in LOVE!