31, 4-1 SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS (proposed date 11/24/2021)
Today we are turning the show over to Dave. He will be choosing the poems to be read and lead the follow up discussion. This is definitely an act of faith on my part. We’ll see how good I am at reading without any practice. We all know how it is when I have had time to practice.
Soooooo, Dave, what do you have to start the podcast?
GOD’S RHYME (last stanza)
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
God’s Rhyme © 2019, pg. 86
GOD IN A BOX (a song)
1
Would you put God in a box, one with a lock?
Hopefully not, especially one to which you could lose the key.
If you were to have the key to the Kingdom
In your hand, would you lock the box , set it aside, just let it be?
2
A lonely woman needs to pray, pray in the way,
The way she was raised, with the sign of the cross to begin her plea.
A choir sings Hallelujah with hands upraised,
Their voices dancing with joy as they praise the one God almighty.
Refrain
Jesus, the Son of God, He has set us free dying on that tree,
Dying for you, dying for me, unlocking our hearts from sinful ways.
God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, all three
With the salvation of the cross, in His way, He picks up the strays.
3
The story of an unkempt man comes to life
As he enters the church looking for comfort from a loving God.
He knows of salvation, do we judge his strife?
Just who has the right, those who would judge or those we judge to be odd?
4
I speak in tongues and I pray thru misery,
God speaks to me thru the Bible, and He speaks to me thru prayer,
And to me I hear his voice in the journey,
He speaks from the open box so that we all can hear, all can share.
Refrain
Jesus, the Son of God, He has set us free dying on that tree,
Dying for you, dying for me, unlocking our hearts from sinful ways.
God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, all three,
With the salvation of the cross, in His way, He picks up the strays.
5
What church does God belong to, where does He go?
On Sunday morning, will we find His Spirit dwelling within us?
Or will we find somehow that we do not know
Where He is, why He is, or how He is because of all our fuss?
6
Do we put God in a box, a box with a lock,
Thinking that He only works in ways with which we are comfortable?
How many must He be trying to unlock?
Created in his image, together we sit at His table.
Refrain
Jesus, the Son of God, He has set us free dying on that tree,
Dying for you, dying for me, unlocking our hearts from sinful ways.
God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, all three,
With the salvation of the cross, in His way, He picks up the strays
7
How wonderful that He sees us and accepts us,
Each one of us diff’rent, our needs, our gifts, our strengths, our...
