MAGNIFY

Whatever thing you magnify
Will grow before your eyes
If you’re suffering in some way
It comes as no surprise
Your sickness seems to get much worse
You study every pain
And you will take a longer time
To get back health again.

But if you magnify The Lord
And praise Him for [...]

TAKE A MINUTE

Take a minute of your time
Stop to think just where you’re at
Are you growing in The Lord
Putting on your spiritual fat
Or do you just call His name
When your circumstance is bleak
Hoping that He’ll hear your call
Give you strength when you are weak.

It’s about relationship
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PLAYING FIELD

Life is a great big playing field
You choose the games you play
Your mind is hyperactive
As your thoughts begin to stray
The boundary that you’ve set yourself
Is pure and quite refined
Until you think of something that
Will creep up from behind.

As you linger on this morsel
Savouring it’s [...]

DISTANT

I’m feeling rather distant
I’m floating in my space
Surrounded by a large cocoon
That shields me from His face
Just lately I’ve not bothered
To keep in touch at all
Perhaps with what’s been going on
Oblivious to His call.

But He is still here with me
A patient One is God
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DOUGHBAG

Do I have to strive and strain
To gain acceptance to Your clique
Reeling off those endless prayers
Verse expander magnifique
Must I be good all the time
Can I make the odd mistake
Or am I consigned to where
The doughbags go to scream and bake.

What’s this I here, You [...]

SCHOLAR

You don’t have to be a scholar
Own a brain that’s rather large
Live inside a great big mansion
Always butter, never marge
You don’t have to toil for hours
Read the bible inside out
Always looking rather holy
That’s not what it is about.

God, He loves the cheerful giver
One who’s [...]