Wednesday, December 28, 2011

When Your Joy is Clean

 



When Your Joy is clean
and bracing like a cold breeze
on an even colder day

It surprises you
With its freshness
And purity
And strengthening airs

It braces you for
The next round of
Life
Rushing in
Unbounded

And rekindles the
Newness of
His Life in You
Afresh

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

How do I

How do I continue to love when
New and Painful darts stab my heart?

And how do I bless those that
Would wound me afresh?

Fresh circumcision of my heart, Lord

Fresh peeling away of the flesh
That would only get in the way
Of Who You Are
And What You Would Be

To them.....




To me.....




To a dying world that so needs YOU....






Fresh Bread Broken for Me This Morning
(Thank you for loving me that much)



Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” John 6:32-34

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Celebration of Christ

Yea, Lord, we greet thee
Born This Happy Morning

Jesus to Thee be all
Glory Given

Word of the Fa- ther
Now in Flesh Appearing

O Come Let Us Adore Him
O Come Let Us Adore Him
O Come Let Us Adore Him

Christ, the Lord




How beautifully these words ring in my heart this morning!

How gracious and merciful You are, Lord
To veil Your majesty and glory
And come low to the earth
That my sinful heart might be
Arrested out of its pitiful state
Into the glorious liberty of the
Sons of God!

Sky-breaking,
Heaven-sailing
Glory!