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1st John 5:4

Reassurance assurance grief.

Hear the 3 steps overcoming the thief

As we’re questioned about our belief

Always attacking our Chief

Prayer is our debrief.

No desire to seek relief.

Recentered is our new leaf.

Parenting

When you make your children strong

It may come back to bite you the times you are wrong

They learn how you live and hear what you teach

Our practice better be true before what we preach

Reality is not always apparent even as a loving parent

Children are to be readied to be sent 

By their own bent with their own scent.

Yesterday vs Jester Day

If past knowledge is hidden

We joke about the forbidden 

Yesterday becomes jester day

What we court is of the sort 

The important is cut short

Devaluing work, overworking play 

The new, not what I knew, 

Attempts to override what I say.

My Girl

My Girl

It's at the age of 13 when I see

the one who is to marry me.

Was this a prophesy?

Something foretold to come to pass

that through anything would continue to last?

She was the best looking in our class

but her inward beauty is what holds me fast.

Her work in the home is beyond 1st class.

It's the Ritz, Lago Mar both made into one,

what without her could not be done.

She can take invisible lemons

cutting them squarely into,

a talent in the home I'm foreign to.

Her overlooking of "Male Refrigerator Blindness"

is just more evidence of her "sweetness and kindness".

Therefore no fear exists when I hunger and thirst

because My Lord gave me His girl of Proverbs, the 31st.

 

George Landolt

8/17/2005

Psalm 36:5-9

The drawing, not the drive

Breath to thrive, not just survive

Thoughts composing into peace

The heart transforming into a fleece

Breath’s warmth as close to a fire

Dread quenched by the lips’ desire

Willing to wonder, but wandering

Stopped in stillness, now pondering

Deeper today than faster yesterday

Fostering tomorrow by learning to play

Forgotten tomorrows no longer by what I say 

Sorrows grounded darkly in height

Clearer vision by decision from the living Light.

Serious Joy

Is it really so mysterious how to take joy so serious that I can believe at length that the joy of the Lord is my strength?

Does joy mean humour or is that just a rumour?

Is there a method to this "madness" or is my humour really sadness?

The Lord puts laughter in our mouth from His "north" to our "south".

Does this cause our "south" to rise again?

Is this where our resurrection of joy begins?

Is this a question I ask of men or is this such a time

when my faith becomes kin?

Kin in such a way that I learn to hate sin?

Does hating sin remove the fun or is taking joy so serious that it's a pleasure in being a "son”?


George Landolt

10/14/2005

Son in Key

A failed spark

Seems still dark

Felt as stark

The closet I park

Do I read Mark?

Do I sing or bark?

Is it open, the door of the arc?

Am I drowning in good standing?

I’m doing what your commanding.

My feet are landing

Understanding is expanding

Thought it was a plan

Instead it was a Man

I was about to run

Until I heard son.

Jeremiah 12:5

If the dark shows our heart

Where then do I start?

Is a question an important part?

Is Truth what mends or tears apart?

Is a question the horse before the cart?

I’m thinking now no question.

I’m feeling now no thinking

I’m seeing now no feeling

My prayer just rose above the ceiling.

I’m now steel into the knight.

Obedience

The dance, modified by circumstance, not chance.

The lead, not Lancelot, but lanced a lot.

Well done not rare. Outlasting the unfair.

Critical thinking while criticized without blinking.

Fiercely and tenderly committed while submitted.

Taught when caught while being sought.

Awake during sleep as a sheep under His keep.

Making time for the sublime. Ready to turn on a dime.

Broken into a remake. Remarkable through heartache.

Peace as the release becoming a masterpiece.

Stormy Whethers

The birth of a storm

Is it fire or is it form

Is its desire cold or is it warm

Is it delight or is it scorn

Is it a question about to be born

Is the answer seamless or torn

What does the promise warn

Oh I remember why I was born

Transforming

I want to scream, make a scene,

beyond the mean, a new shot clean

where wrestling is no struggle

nor the options I juggle.

The pin of my creative pen

is power to stop, begin again.

My mind, sometimes blind,

no longer to leave me in a bind.

I’m bound to the sound

that leads me to the ground

at the cross I found, now sound

even when not strong or am wrong.

Salute to rising and improvising.

Learning as I go

to learn new ways, not ego.

Creative and combative

Ear to the ground, as a native.

Now passion to fashion a heart of compassion

Permission with condition to position the volition

that I continue in the venue of the Eye

that clears the sky that will not die 

except to be with me

Either or Neither?

Either or neither?

Take a breather.

As a believer

A dream weaver.

Though an achiever

More a receiver.

2 Corinthians 1:20

What’s in your hand?

Demands are like sand.

They slip your grip

Doing only what you can.

Should I guess or bless?

Is your grip on your mess?

What if you confess

No more no less?

Challenge the stress.

Soothe by caress.

Free not to impress.

Listening more, talking less.

Stronger longer to rest in progress

Knowing the promise is always Yes.

Psalm 32:9

My way has no High way

I go by the Way

A drive by so to say

Eager but not serious

Calling a calling delirious 

High minded and unwinded I confess

Unbridled without brokenness

Idolizing my distress

By pressing my idle

Idolizing stress

Without a bridle.

Angry because afraid

Knowing I’m being played

Out of view of the parade

Thinking I’m self-made.