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Turn This Devil Away I don't even know You Yet I hear You speak my name Saying I was thought of Long before I came Sunny days or dark I find shadows on my heart A feeling pulls me down Is this what life’s about? No one knows the burden This silent pain I bear Searching for a place to hide...

Written in Red The old Bible lay on the shelf Its golden letters faded and worn Words within offering help Its pages tattered and torn The words of a man named Jesus Love and peace He said Telling how much God loves us Each word written in red So long ago He climbed a hill His life to give...

The Miner Sweat is dripping from my weary brow I'll make it through this day somehow My ears are filled with the hammers ring My spirit's high and my heart does sing Chisels glistening in the flickering light No way to tell if it's day or night Half a mile from the air above Half a mile from...

Pages of My Life Today I was writing on a page of my life Things I had done, cheating and strife Each page was filled with lies and with hate I was trapped in my world, there was no escape Each day was adding more things I had done Again and again, one by one It was clear to see as I wrote...

The Stones Fell on Me The temptation was great And no one would see In secret I did it But the stones fell on me It was easy to hate him He was so different Words poured from my mouth But the stones fell on me The truth would tell all It was easier to just lie My tongue swore it true But the...

Leave It Unsaid The man hurled insults at me His anger was very great A devil told me to curse him But I chose to leave it unsaid My car took me far from home And then a mechanism broke A devil told me to curse it But I chose to leave it unsaid My foot slipped on the ice I fell and the pain...

The Forgotten Ant One day, I saw a large ant on the floor of my garage. It was covered with dust and did not look very well but it was alive. I suspected this ant was lost from its colony, where ever it was, and was dying. Perhaps a crumb of bread and a drink of water may ease the burden of...

Should We Ponder the End of the World? Is too much time spent trying to determine when the end will come ? Even in the time of Jesus this was on their minds and they even asked Jesus about it. I'm not saying we should sit back in total ignorance and just wait for it to come upon us. The...

A Helping Hand When Joshua and men of Israel went out to fight with Amalek and his men, Moses stood on a hill overlooking the battle. When Moses held up the rod of the Lord, Israel began to win but when he...

I Have Followed You I have followed along after you, although most of the time I was rebellious, but still, I followed. You have tolerated me beyond reason especially when I kept looking back at the things I had done and planned to do them again. I was not the child a father could be proud of...

Deceived I thought I was free But the Devil had me bound I thought I sang God's song But the Devil knew I was wrong I thought I was in the light I did not know I was blind I thought I was alive But then I saw I was dead I thought I understood In my blindness I was deceived I was certain I knew...

The End and a Beginning Darkness fell from the heavens And walked upon the Earth Confusing the minds of men Creating a desire to hurt The time has been given A sword is now in hand The innocent suffer and die When a devil roams the land Lions roar from the east Riding on tails of fire...

This is not a poem, not sure what to call it or where to put it so.................. Showdown It was like a scene from the...

The Stranger Beside You Jesus has walked alongside you for all of your life Calling your name softly in the day and the night He’s been by your side but a stranger indeed Waiting for you to hear, waiting for you to see And now He kneels before you, though He has made the worlds He beckons to...

The Gathering Place They gathered there each year Under the ancient tree From places far and near Family and friends to see It was the Gathering Place Where they spoke of Him Sharing in His Grace And praising God in hymns Then as the years began to pass The Gathering Place was dying Until...

Before I met my wife, I was in a 3 1/2 year relationship with a young woman I met when we were teenagers. We fell in love. I was in the military and even being apart for 15 months for Vietnam did not weaken our love. We made plans to marry when she finished college. Issues arose and we were...

The Passing A voice so softly whispered Come to me child, come Hearing but not wanting I sat on the edge of her bed Slowly her hand reached out Knowing no touch could be All my life her one wish was Only to touch my cheek Breathing deeply she softly sighed Her hand fell to the bed I moved...

Why Not Me ? Darkness gathered in the sky above Lightening struck and thunder roared Such as this had not been seen By me or anyone there before A storm came in upon the land With a wind of greatest power Then fire fell from the heavens Burning all before my eyes Many friends fell near me...

The Battlefield Was His The battlefield was his from the first to the last I fell again with each stone that was cast Gathering my strength I stood with the best But each time I stood, I fell with the rest He stood there in victory before it began The sword of deception tightly in hand...

Are These Thoughts Your Own ? When in hand you take the pen, Are these thoughts your own? Do they belong to you or Him, These poems of sin atoned? It was written in times long passed From the heart you'll speak, But are the thoughts from a heart of sin Or from one that's given to Him? If...