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Early will I seek you, Lord,
At dawn of day,
To hear you in the blessed Word,
And to you pray.
I seek your strength in dawn's weak light,
For all that follows,
To lean upon your saving might
That feeds the swallows.
First in heart and first in time,
To you I come,
Your fullest life to me sublime,
Both part and sum.
—JRMatheny, written at this moment
A brother said that today's prayer, "A Thousand Motives," based roughly on 1 Thessalonians 5.16-22, showed how to let the word of God influence and inform our prayers. (He also said it ought to be put to music.) What do you think?
On TFR yesterday, I plopped down, uncerimoniously, as usual, another Corollaries segment, that occasional hodge-podge of subjects both religious and no, to the sheerness and delight (hendiadys) of my screaming and fainting fans. Top billing was a link, but not just any link: a tribute to an old college professor. I recommend them both, as authors are wont to do.
After a hiatus of weeks, another Cloudburst poem got dropped on subscribers today, this time in blank verse, quite a departure from my run-of-the-mill rhyme. (Note: not free verse, but blank, iambic pentameter with no end rhymes.)
Yesterday, I reblogged a couple of friends' articles on Christian Hub. That's easier to do than starting a new post. I plan to do more of that.
(The prayers have been duly linked to from here.)
And there's more, but I don't remember it all just now. You'll have to be content with this.
Seems like I'm using this secondary blog mainly, at the moment, to share my writings across the Internet. But we'll get it figured out in a bit. Just in time for when the full features come online.
So for now, here again, a link, to yet another prayer: "Put Us on Our Feet." Common meter, but I hope, uncommon words. Three short stanzas you can say amen to.
If you ever feel discouraged, this prayer-poem is for you: "With Darkened Thoughts and Lonely Sighs." I wrote it last night and polished it up this morning. You'll note some Bible allusions in the text. Can you identify them?
This one I like. A lot. "The Heart Is Slow."
A new prayer-poem is out this morning on the Believing Prayer website, "When We Grow Faint and Frail." Something of a desperate appeal to God for help.
Feel free to use this and other prayers on the website in #church bulletins and newsletters, or in other ways you see fit. Check out the About page for further information.
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Check out my late-Sunday-night poem, "The Lord who Made the Perfect Rose," over on the Christian Poets site. #poetry
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I still can't access my personal site, so here on the Posterous blog goes the background post to today's Cloudburst Poetry offering, "O Gracious Light."
Lately, I've been doing a number of lyrics for songs. So today's poem may wind up on some sheet music before long as well. But first the Cloudburst subscribers get it.
As I mentioned in the email, the list server is down, too (the sky is falling!), so I sent it straight to the addresses on the list. I get a weekly email report of those, so I have them tucked away for days such as these.
The first stanza, of four, is below, and was suggested to me by text somewhere in some Daily Office or Common Prayer, which I can't find right at the moment. I reproduced "everliving" as it was in the text, so don't bicker with me on that.
O gracious light, so pure and bright,
The Father everliving;
O Lord so blessed, the Christ of rest,
The Son of God is giving.
Not a syllable too many, and none missing.
The poem was written on Leap Day. Appropriate, no?
Before long, I may be moving the Cloudburst site, so take a gander at the old one before it goes into virtual oblivion. Check out the FAQ and why I don't publish the Cloudburst list on the Internet.