A Song of Love

•August 25, 2015 • Leave a Comment

I think of you,
I love you.

What words can I use to express that love?
What can I say?
How can I show you
how much you mean to me?
How can I prepare myself
to meet with you?
What can show the depth of my love?

And so I sing this song for you,
I create a symphony,
a feast for the senses

– all to worship
and adore you

Blessing and Honour

Psalm 45:1-2, 6-9 (CEV)

(A special psalm for the people of Korah and for the music leader. To the tune “Lilies.” A love song.)

For a Royal Wedding

45 My thoughts are filled
with beautiful words
    for the king,
and I will use my voice
    as a writer would use
    pen and ink.

2 No one is as handsome as you!
    Your words are always kind.
    That is why God
    will always bless you.

6 You are God, and you will rule
    forever as king.
    Your royal power
    brings about justice.
7 You love justice and hate evil.
    And so, your God chose you
    and made you happier
    than any of your friends.
8 The sweet aroma of the spices
myrrh, aloes, and cassia,
    covers your royal robes.
You enjoy the music of harps
    in palaces decorated
    with ivory.
9 Daughters of kings are here,
and your bride stands
    at your right side,
    wearing a wedding gown
    trimmed with pure gold.

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Come With Me

•August 24, 2015 • Leave a Comment

2015-07-21 16.39.49Come with me.

I’m here,
calling to you.
I have come for you,
looking
to find where you are.

I love you.

I long for you to come with me.
All I have promised has come true.
Even the fig trees are now budding,
and I know
how you’ve clung on
while they didn’t,
I really do.

I’m here.

I love you.
Come with me
on this journey
of love
and life
together.

O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

Song of Solomon 2:8-13 (CEV)

Winter Is Past

She Speaks:

8 I hear the voice
    of the one I love,
as he comes leaping
over mountains and hills
9     like a deer or a gazelle.
Now he stands outside our wall,
looking through the window
10     and speaking to me.

He Speaks:

My darling, I love you!
    Let’s go away together.
11 Winter is past,
    the rain has stopped;
12 flowers cover the earth,
    it’s time to sing.
The cooing of doves
    is heard in our land.
13 Fig trees are bearing fruit,
while blossoms on grapevines
    fill the air with perfume.
My darling, I love you!
    Let’s go away together.

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To Whom Else?

•August 20, 2015 • Leave a Comment

To whom else
should I go?

You alone
are the one
who brings light,
hope,
peace,
love,
life
to my life.

You alone
are the one who brings fulfilment,
a way forward,
a future,
an eternity.

You alone
are the one for me.

I cannot leave you,
or turn my back,
for without you
I have nothing
and am not
the true potential
of me.

I cannot go,
because there
is nowhere else to go
without you.
Nowhere
and nothing else make sense.

So as for me Lord,
I will follow you.

John 6:56-69 (CEV)

56 If you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you are one with me, and I am one with you.

57 The living Father sent me, and I have life because of him. Now everyone who eats my flesh will live because of me. 58 The bread that comes down from heaven isn’t like what your ancestors ate. They died, but whoever eats this bread will live forever.

59 Jesus was teaching in a Jewish place of worship in Capernaum when he said these things.

The Words of Eternal Life

60 Many of Jesus’ disciples heard him and said, “This is too hard for anyone to understand.”

61 Jesus knew that his disciples were grumbling. So he asked, “Does this bother you? 62 What if you should see the Son of Man go up to heaven where he came from? 63 The Spirit is the one who gives life! Human strength can do nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are from that life-giving Spirit. 64 But some of you refuse to have faith in me.” Jesus said this, because from the beginning he knew who would have faith in him. He also knew which one would betray him.

65 Then Jesus said, “You cannot come to me, unless the Father makes you want to come. That is why I have told these things to all of you.”

66 Because of what Jesus said, many of his disciples turned their backs on him and stopped following him. 67 Jesus then asked his twelve disciples if they were going to leave him. 68 Simon Peter answered, “Lord, there is no one else that we can go to! Your words give eternal life. 69 We have faith in you, and we are sure that you are God’s Holy One.”

To Be In Your Presence

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