Pastor Seth’s Poems and Musings
Listening
A.P.B.: Missing here! A right ear and left ear! No sign of whereabouts! Relations in the pouts! Listening: you go first! Listening for heart’s thirst. Listening for their mopes, Listening for their hopes. Listening for their thoughts, Listening for sore spots. Listening when they’re curt, Listening for their hurt. Listening…
A Prayer for Wisdom
O Lord, please make me wise. To live without disguise. To see You, give me eyes, Certain hopes in the skies! Make me wise at sunrise To meet life’s lows and highs, To see through Satan’s lies, To value You, my prize! Make me wise in life’s sighs, Alert to hear heart’s cries.…
Anger
His high horse gallopin’, the rider was yellin’ Demands, accusations, horrible names, tellin’. Yet “justified,” haughty, his rights he was claimin’, He threw his mean lasso, his gun was a-shamin’. Sin of entitlement is like hay to a horse. It feeds our foul anger with nary a remorse. All guns now a-blazin’, the tongue,…
Rose
What a beauty is she, from her bud to full bloom, The petals unfolding are as soft as a plume. The richest, deep scarlet stuns and mesmerizes. Gazing at her glory, beauty energizes. What a beauty is she, deep in her redeemed heart. Her eyes invite you in, with her, to be a part.…
UNTROUBLED?
UNTROUBLED? “In this world you will have trouble.” Well, Jesus, I certainly know about that! When troubles come I usually fall flat! “Let not your heart be troubled.” When troubles come in their course, Troubles troubling, my heart comes apart. First troubles come, then my troubled heart. Just like the cart comes after the…
Fallen
All around us, Does surround us, Lives inside us, Sin’s vile virus. Thousands of ways, Through all our days, Man’s unseen haze, Denies God’s ways. All are to blame, This deadly “game,” “Virtue” we claim. Our pride aflame. On nightly news, In our church pews, Opiates and booze, With God we snooze.…