Pastor Seth’s Poems and Musings
Oh, Conscience!
What mayhem we will see when conscience is broken, “Do ‘right’ in your own eyes.” This mantra, now spoken. No restraining presence, like no brakes on a car, Plummeting down the hill, “It’s a thrill ride for all”??? A broken conscience, bad, but another step worse, When conscience becomes blind, we’ll live under that…
FEELINGS
“If I don’t feel something, it really isn’t real.” Oh, fickle feelings, me, a slave to what I feel? Feelings can come and go, like offshore winds at sea. Feelings are wind gauges of what’s inside of me. My feelings can be fed by my thoughts, words, and deeds! New feelings can be built…
“Oh, Conscience!!!”
What mayhem we will see when conscience is broken, “Do ’right’ in your own eyes.” This mantra, now spoken. No restraining presence, like no brakes on a car, Plummeting down the hill, “It’s a thrill ride for all”??? A broken conscience, bad, but another step worse, When conscience becomes blind, we’ll live under that…
PROTECTED? HOW?
Life in a fallen world. Things don’t work like they “should.” That is certainly true. Oh, don’t you wish they would? Sometimes its winter storms, sometimes wretched sickness, Sometimes human badness, sometimes man’s stubbornness. How does God protect us? Not from every trouble. (Sure I’ve been protected, but life’s not a bubble). But…
“I Was Wrong”
“I was wrong,” words so rare, like extinct dodo birds! When was the last time you heard someone say these words? Admitting this is “hard.” Why must it be so “hard”? Proud and defensive, we; self is always on “guard.” Other words fill our minds! “But you don’t understand.” “I was wrong; so were…
Christmas Fix
The human dilemma’s incurable disease, Fraught with conflict, drama, maker of misery. Not positive thinking, nor resolutions new, Can overcome the sin that lies in me and you. We put on happy fronts, “Everything is OK.” “Great things are happening.” (At least, that’s what we say). But something’s in the heart that makes a…