Borrowed Time

They will put you out of the synagogue;
in fact, the time is coming
when anyone who kills you
will think they are offering a service to GOD.
~ John 16

GOD is trying to tell you something...

Hear and pay attention,
do not be arrogant,
for the LORD has spoken.
~ Jeremiah 13

A Dios Le Pido

So I turned to the Lord GOD
and pleaded with him
in prayer and petition, in fasting,
and in sackcloth and ashes.
~ Daniel 9

Honey Bee

“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?”
~ Judges 14

The Second Time Around

Seymour's second bloom this year...

Let us go early to the vineyards
to see if the vines have budded,
if their blossoms have opened,
and if the pomegranates are in bloom—
there I will give you my love.
~ Song of Solomon 7

2010: Suddenly Seymour

A voice says, “Cry out.”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
“All people are like grass,
and all their faithfulness
is like the flowers of the field."
~ Isaiah 40

Shake!

Nation will rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom.
There will be famines
and earthquakes
in various places.
~ Matthew 24

Forge Your Own Chains

The LORD will rise up
as he did at Mount Perazim,
he will rouse himself
as in the Valley of Gibeon—
to do his work,
his strange work,
and perform his task,
his alien task.
Now stop your mocking,
or your chains will become heavier;
the Lord, the LORD Almighty,
has told me
of the destruction
decreed against the whole land.
Listen and hear my voice;
pay attention and hear what I say.
~ Isaiah 28

It's So Hard

I endure scorn for your sake,
and shame covers my face.
~ Psalm 69

Hold My Hand

Your hands shaped me and made me.
Will you now turn and destroy me?
~ Job 10

Rockaway Beach

He called a little child to him,
and placed the child among them.
And he said:
“Truly I tell you, unless you change
and become like little children,
you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
~ Matthew 18

Free Will

Now the serpent was more crafty
than any of the wild animals
the LORD God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God really say,
‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
The woman said to the serpent,
“We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
but God did say,
‘You must not eat fruit from the tree
that is in the middle of the garden,
and you must not touch it,
or you will die.’”
“You will not certainly die,”
the serpent said to the woman.
“For God knows that when you eat from it
your eyes will be opened,
and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil.”
~ Genesis 3

Bird Has Flown

After forty days
Noah opened a window
he had made in the ark
and sent out a raven,
and it kept flying back and forth
until the water had dried up from the earth.
Then he sent out a dove
to see if the water had receded
from the surface of the ground.
~ Genesis 8

Get Down Make Love

This is my command:
Love each other.
~ John 15

Death Is Not The End

But the cowardly,
the unbelieving,
the vile, the murderers,
the sexually immoral,
those who practice magic arts,
the idolaters and all liars—
they will be consigned
to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
This is the second death.
~ Revelation 21

Ring The Bells That Still Can Ring

Open my lips, Lord,
and my mouth
will declare your praise.
You do not delight in sacrifice,
or I would bring it;
you do not take pleasure
in burnt offerings.
My sacrifice, O God,
is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise.
~ Psalm 51



Forget your perfect offering...
there is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.