Love

Don't be over-extravagant
Things are insignificant
And riches are unimportant
Love, and be a participant

Don't be harsh and unrepentant
Love others, don't be reluctant
Greed is rather irrelevant
Love is what's really triumphant

Bad leadership is malignant
Good leadership is attendant
Bad leaders are a pollutant
But good leaders are repentant

For all people are relevant
And peace between us is pleasant
And love is always tolerant
Yes love makes a people radiant

Butterfly

Outside I saw a butterfly
How do you exist, little guy?
Some say you're just an accident
The arrogance is ignorant

You must be part of a design
The evidence we must assign
Not to a fluke, not to good luck
But a plan that leaves us awestruck

A Tiny Little Bird

I walked out my door and I saw
A tiny little bird pecking seeds for its craw
How in the world do you survive
Who taught you to fly and how do you even thrive

And in winter where do you stay
And who wrote all of the code for your DNA
And foolish men say there's no God
That belief in a designer is just a fraud

How unscientific they are
To ignore all the evidence they've seen so far
To say that given enough time
The mathematically impossible will rhyme

You Got Your Knickers in a Twist

Dear friend, why did you go away
I heard you got your knickers in a twist today

Hurtful remarks are here to stay
Let's not get in a snit when offense comes our way
Don't forget we're all made of clay
And people say stupid things ev'ry single day
We must overlook what they say
Don't we all need a little grace along the way?

Is this like a three act ballet?
It happens three or four times a year in replay

Act 1 A few months you're away
Act 2 You come back and we hope you're gonna stay
Act 3 An offense comes your way
Because of one person you leave us in dismay
Are we like dust in an ashtray?
Do you hate us, to treat us like a throwaway?

Absquatulate

I hope you won't absquatulate
When sermons overcomplicate
We're trying to communicate
And hope we don't exasperate

Do you sit uncomprehending
Are we overdocumenting
Sledgehammering phrasemongering
Doctrine supersaturating

Someone of Faith You Just Might Be

If maybe your brother hates you
For loving God sincere and true
Someone of faith you just might be
Like Abel gave his best with glee

If you feel you're the only one
Who pleases God under the sun
Someone of faith you just might be
Like Enoch walked with God you see

If you alone heed God's warning
And you prepare every morning
Someone of faith you just might be
Like Noah and his family

If you obeyed God's holy Word
Following Him and not deterred
Someone of faith you just might be
Like Abraham went faithfully

If God's promises you've believed
And miraculous plans conceived
Someone of faith you just might be
Like Sarah God has heard your plea

If you've waited and not received

But eternity have perceived
Someone of faith you just might be
Like those of old lived faithfully

If you've refused worldly glory

To be in the Church's story
Someone of faith you just might be
Like Moses crossing the Red Sea

If you've ever been crucified
For doing right but someone lied
Someone of faith you just might be
Like God the Son upon that tree

If kin folk hate your faith in God
And when you suffer they applaud
Someone of faith you just might be
Beware the household enemy

If you have ever been hated
Preaching what the Bible stated
Someone of faith you just might be
Like preachers down through history

Blinded by Party Loyalty

A Democrat helps the poor
Although it's moral to the core
A Christian thing to do what's more
"Socialism!" is the uproar

A Republican saves the life
Of a child from abortion's knife
It's called taking choice from your wife
Giving children rights causes strife

If we label morality
Not by what's right but by party
Then when will we ever agree
Blinded by party loyalty

The Buck

Now the buck no longer stops here
It's the other guy's fault, you hear?
Those liberals, the Democrats
Or CNN those dirty rats
It's all fake news, I don't tell lies
And trade war won't be our demise

Accidents

A dazzling sunrise or sunset
One framed by dew, one a rosette
A palette made by accidents
Say atheists and malcontents

The perfect bird out in a tree
How does it fly free as can be
A miracle of accidents
Say atheists and malcontents

Tjikko is a very old tree

Old as all of humanity

A tree made by accidents
Say atheists and malcontents

Lying Politicians

Lying politicians left and right
Dividing us to win in their fight
Lying advertisers constantly
We just can't trust them for honesty

Lying carbon dating facts unknown
Acting like they know it all alone
Lying giving tax breaks for the rich
It's good for working men, is their pitch

Lying that the press is lying now
Men only believe what they allow
Sure the press lies but not all the time
The whole world lies it's the paradigm