KING OF LOVE

The King of King’s Lord in heaven above

Holds the power in His kingdom of love

Not love of power but the power of love 

HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO

 

A hero, a myth a legend

An idea? A tale or fable

With a grain of truth

And come the time

He will be there

At the right time

To rescue us all

What hero?

A name gently whispered on the breeze

Or shouted on the wind

Arthur? Robin? Horatio?

Heroes all

Our real hero, neither myth or legend

Not an idea or tale or fable

But is the truth

And come the time

He will be there

At the right time

To rescue us from ourselves

A name gently whispered in reverence

And shouted in rejoicing

A name embedded in our souls

Our Lord God

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

 

Now once more

The year has turned

The advent candle

Long since burned

Hearts darken

As we count the cost

And the season’s spirit

Is all now lost

But it need not

All be dark and gloom

Light can again

Illuminate the room

So here is a philosophy

For all of us

God is for life

Not just for Christmas

DEAR LORD PROTECT

 

Dear Lord protect

The soldiers on the line

And grapes upon the vine

The policemen on the beat

The homeless on the street

The elderly and the frail

The Transgressors in the jail

The young and the vulnerable

The well off and comfortable

Fire fighters at their station

Carers with their dedication

The judiciary and the medics

The believers and the sceptics

Those in planes and boats and cars

The planets and the stars

Crops growing in the soil

Those hard about their toil

The river, the lake and the dam

The lion the wolf and the lamb

The animals on the farm

Protect them Lord from harm

THANK YOU

Thank you for the morning

For the new day dawning

Thank you for the dawn chorus

Refreshing and delighting us

Thank you, Lord, for another day

And for tomorrow if I may

JOSHUA, JOSHUA

“God with us,” or Emmanuel

“A savior” 

In Hebrew called Joshua

In Greek the name was Jesus

“The chosen one”

In Hebrew called Messiah

In Greek named Christ

Jesus Christ

The Son of God

A Jew Born in the Roman Empire

Given by God to the world

For two thousand years

Not known by a Latin name

But known by all by his name in Greek 

BANG

 

Bang!

Isn’t that how it all began?

Scientists tell us so

Like the gospels

Darwin’s disciples preach it

Talking of the creation myth

And the big bang theory

As if a theory has more weight

Than a myth

God didn’t create the universe

They say

But science with its big bang

I find it hard to believe

It cannot be so

Science cannot create a world

Or a universe

They can only end it

With a big bang

Science will ultimately destroy

What they play with life like a toy

They try to play god

With their own creations

Science gave us gun powder

Nuclear weaponry

Choking carbon monoxide

Acid rain

Holes in the ozone layer

I believe in the creation

And the creator

God created us all

With all our faults and frailties

And god gave us great abilities

But he also gave us reason

And the common good sense when not to use them

Just because we can do something

Doesn’t mean that we should

I believe god created a world to love

But if it all began

With that big bang

And nothing existed

Before that moment

Who lit the match?

Who pressed the button?

Who flicked the switch?

That caused the explosion

The bang

The ignition of life

In all its forms

Perhaps we are an experiment

In some cosmic crucible

Or the universe is contained

Within a dirty goldfish bowl

Whose water could imminently be refreshed?

It doesn’t really matter

How it started

Either by the creation myth

Or the big bang theory

The argument is like the universe

A question of balance

Good and bad

Great and small

Searing heat and freezing cold

High and low

There has to be an opposite

To give credence to either

All I know of the universe

The world

This life

Is its very special

Very precious

And finite

Which begs another question?

How will it end?

Will it be with a

Bang!