40, 4-10, SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS, REVISED 1/17/2022(Scheduled 1/21/2022)
Today is Episode 10 of Season 4, our 40th podcast on Living In God’s Rhyme.
Today we are going to read and discuss God’s rhymes from all 3 books.
I’ve said before there is a poem in everything, good or bad. For me there is a rhyme in everything with God.
THE RHYME OF GOD, THE RHYME OF ME ( Living In God’s Rhyme, pg. 34)
There may be no rhymes
As in other times.
But it is not that the Lord
Has struck a lost chord.
(if he did it would be sung
as every church bell was rung)
His rhyme is his word,
The scriptures we read
Through which he plants the seed,
With hope that we have heard.
It is through his grace
That we see his face
In those we meet
And those we greet.
If we believe,
In us lives his rhyme
Forever in time.
He will not deceive.
Then I decided to write
About something right,
But got it wrong
Because it was me,
Me, just me, alone.
I can wander in this world,
Oblivious to all that is good.
I can try by myself
To lift myself up,
Up above the
Hustle without
The bustle,
And fail
Because the bustle
Of this world
Is the hustle
That tells me
All I see
Is all I need.
Then I awake from what I hope was a dream,
Hoping that all is not what it seemed.
I look in the mirror and see
The reflection of what I used to be.
What I used to be before
My Savior redeemed me,
Made me righteous in his eyes,
The eyes of his Father in Heaven above.
Every moment of every day I felt his love.
A love for me and those who surround
My life, who have oft times run aground.
I pray that what I dream
Is never real.
I pray that what may seem
Somewhat surreal
Is nothing more than a bad dream
From a bad movie scene.
As I live I pray that temptation
I turn over to my Savior
Who has conquered my sin
No matter where I’ve been.
When I turn my back
I lose my sight
Of what is wrong
And who is right.
May I focus my eyes,
The eyes of my soul,
So that to my sin I die.
He has mended the hole.
Reflection on The Rhyme of God, the Rhyme of Me
Someone once asked me at a book signing where the name God’s Rhyme came from for the first book. From Him I said, He is the Rhyme. Later I realized that I also had a poem in the book with that title. What a memory!
Discussion:
The next one, from God’s Rhyme, is the first time God and rhyme are both in the title of a poem. (We’ve read this one on an earlier podcast.)
GOD’S RHYME (last stanza) (God’s Rhyme, pg. 86)
I’ve seen God
how odd He seems
in faces I meet
as life races by
I pick up my feet
from the burning street
& see a smile
from a simple child
picking a wild flower
an hour is not measured by minutes
for a while is time
& the simple oddity in life
Is God’s rhyme
Discussion:
HIS BLESSINGS RHYME (God’s Rhyme, pg. 88)
My hopes, my needs, the cure for my ills
All in God’s...
