Category: poetry
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Blessed Be God
This first in a series of poems based on Ephesians. This poem takes its inspiration from Ephesians 1:1-3. Ephesians 1 is especially trinitarian. From the Father who lavishes to the Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have every Spiritual blessing, blessing is blessing cubed. Blessed be God who from that…
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Mary of Bethany
This sonnet is based on John 12:1-3. which recalls the moment Mary of Bethany anoints Jesus both as coming king but more significantly as one whose mission was to die for the sins of his people. This event occurred on the day before the triumphal procession or Palm Sunday. Carolyn…
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Your King Comes
This Sunday is Palm Sunday and marks the beginning of Passion Week. Palm Sunday remembers Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem when the procession of his followers waved palm branches and cried, “Hosanna, son of David!” The processional Psalm 118:25-26 which is being chanted by the crowd along with the images…
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Who for Love
This sonnet is based on Mark 10:17-22 when a rich young ruler approached Jesus with the question, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” The rich young ruler shows an earnestness and a deep feeling about his question and its related concerns. When he meets Jesus he drops to…
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The Annunciation
Yesterday, March 25th, was the Feast of the Annunciation which remembers Gabriel appearing to Mary to tell of God’s plan for her. It also marks nine months before Christmas. This sonnet is based on Luke 1:26-35. I have been taken with Malcolm Guite’s sonnet of the same event in which…
Backward Mutters 