Pastor Seth’s Poems and Musings
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,…
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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…
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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.…
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O, Human Nature’s Twist
Human nature’s strange twist, The same evils persist. Solutions to enlist? Here’s history’s long list. Oration, Taxation, Donation, Sedation. Education, Reincarnation, Affirmation, Communication. Foundations, Immigration, Legislation, Incarceration. Meditation, Demonstrations, Integration, Segregation. Motivation, Toleration, Equalization, Gratification, Globalization, Modernization, Conservation, Liberalization. Our nature’s change? God’s method, strange. Jesus exchanged! The…
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Man of Sorrows
A man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. His last friend on earth? A repentant thief. Battered, bruised and pierced, crowds hurled their contempt. Hardly anyone shed tears of lament.
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