Pastor Seth’s Poems and Musings
Book of Genesis
Beginnings of our world, The goodness of Your hand. It didn’t take us long Making messes on land. Adam, Eve, and Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Ten brothers, and two more, The patriarch era. Self, curved in on itself: Foolish “drama,” conflicts, Egos, pride, fights and strife, Childish quarrels, nitpicks. By nature ego…
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The Narrow Path
My first twenty years I walked the road broad Until empty, longing, I came to know God. Forty-seven years since; on God’s path I have trod. Different kinds of terrain I’ve walked on this Earth’s sod. Hovering jungle growth, fear and danger abound Amidst the STARK unknown ‘twas once lost; now I’m found. On…
Read More The Hard Heart
Fixed and impervious, Mocking, contemptuous, Hard, impenetrable, Hostile, intractable. Ever colder, chilling, Proud, closed off, unwilling, Stubborn, recalcitrant, Stiff-necked, intransigent.
Read More “Apparent” Weakness
Apparent, felt strength, but more a weightless soul. Power, “Confidence mine!” Hollow sounding tolls. “I don’t need anyone.” Plaintive loneliness strolls. “Don’t tell me what to do.” Haunting emptiness holes. Apparent, felt weakness, but one weighty in soul. In hushed humility, the power of God tolls. To overcome one’s self, the path to be…
Read More Self-Actualization
Buzz words from psychology past, “The glory of the self!” Miscast. And “self-actualization?” The ego’s road to damnation.
Read More The Anchor
The old, wooden warship at the mercy of the waves, Heaving skyward, plunging seaward, in search of watery graves? The waves ripped off the rudder in the fierce Atlantic gale! And the hurricane-like wind just broke off the main sail! The strong gulf current will surge us far out to sea! While the safe…
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