Personally for me, writing about "Loving God" is more difficult than writing about "God’s Love". I think the reason for this is that God’s Love is always brilliantly forgiving and amazingly strong no matter what we do. His love never waivers or changes now and in eternity.
When writing about Loving God, there are more variables because in reality, we can have highs and lows in our "Love for Him". I am not saying, we do not Love God. I am saying, our Love for Him can be strongest when we are in great pain or deep need. When we are “in trouble” or “don’t know what to do”, we seem to need God more and our professions of faith and love become stronger.
Sometimes when our lives are going well, we take things for granted and feel more in charge of our lives. When we are “on a mountaintop”, we may somehow feel we are responsible for our positive situation and success. We can come to believe, "we are in control”, especially when things are going well. As a result, we don't always tell God we Love Him and Pray strongly during these mountaintop or positive times.
The poems below focus on reminding myself of God’s Love. Realizing the strength and power of "His Love" nourishes and strengthens my own "Love for Him".
NOTE: It is my intent to add a short Bible Study on "Loving God". Marsh
My Lord
You are everything to me
My life and my salvation
The love of my life
The love of my soul
The love of eternal life
You are everything to me
I was not aware of
you in my earlier life
I lived according to my
own purpose and intent in life
I was never at peace before you entered
my constrained world
I now know how vacant
my life once was
You are everything to me
Your love knows no limits
Your Love is deeper than
human comprehension
Your love leads me
onward into
your arms
You are everything to me
Your perfect love blinds my
eyes to see you clearly
07/16/2000 Coal Creek Chapel
Why Do We Forget?
Why do we forget
God’s Love sometimes?
Faced with success,
we frequently forget
A glimpse of troubles,
we suddenly remember
Why are we
so independent?
Why do we behave
as if we are in control?
Why?
Because
we are human
We are pre-deposed
to think we are superior
We believe we have power
to control our own destiny
Our human confidence
begets human frailty
We are continually
confidentin the present
We may also believe we
can change the future
So, why is this problem?
Has to do with the
definition of a word
Definition of the
word “future”
We believe we know
what the future brings
We are convinced we
can in impact the future
The problem?
For us, the "future"
is extremely limited
It exists only a split second
ahead of the present
A thin thread still
connects us to the past
The thread so thin, it cannot
support future knowledge
We use this split second
to believe we have
future knowledge
What will happen to us
What is ahead of us
Maybe we do have
knowledge of the future
I don’t think so
We are just aggressively describing
the present
going forward
07/02/1999 Waiting
in Dr.'s Office
The Joy of Living
and Loving
Feelings of Rolling Meadows
Of peaceful plains
and luxurious valleys
Fields of grain flowing
softly in the wind
Elegant images
forever locked
in the sun’s rays
My feelings are images
of contentment
Peace permeates
the air I breathe
Dark clouds lost forever
Gray clouds brightened
by the sun’s rays
Peaceful winds blowing
away all feelings of pain
Why do I feel this peace?
I don’t think I know
A very hectic,
busy time in my life
Too much to do
Not enough time
Flurries of hectic moments
Vignettes of peaceful times
Probably the busiest
time of my life
But yet, probably
the happiest
Maybe peaceful melodies'
means peaceful harmony
Harmony of love
Harmony of loving
Harmony of accepted blessings
The harmony of loving and accepting love
These are new feelings,
grossly understood
My feelings are not of a
joyous mountain celebration
I feel the freedom to move
upward or downward
The freedom to love
and feel pain
Or just to feel blessed
and happy of my life now
I have been waiting
for the mountaintop
Or the low valley
before me
I think,
I have arrived
Arrived at a place
to glow and grow
To glow in the light
To grow in the light
Freedom to feel
God’s Love
Reflected in my face
07/01/2001 Coal Creek Chapel
I Feel Your Presence
I feel your presence today
Glorious, heart stopping
feeling of your Love
Your blanket of Love
covering me completely
from head to foot
Breathtaking, consuming sensation
of your presence
Five years ago, I felt
your Love in my heart
I will always remember
incredible feelings of
Love and peace
So undeniably over powering, words
fail describing the
power of absolute Love
I will never fail to remember
Will never ever forget
in my own lifetime
Even in Heaven’s
eternity
Flood of Love like molasses
covering my entire body
A downpour of Love
cascading over me
A blossoming of
Love’s promise
How do I describe
feeling of Love I felt?”
My words so inadequate,
I wish it were not so
The passionate emotion of
endless Love I still feel.
My inability to describe
the Love drags me down
If I could only adequately
describe the Love to others
If I could just once clearly
explain the peace
If so, I could help others to
understand and accept
Help people realize
that no comparable
human feeling exists
Unconditional Love
Placed lightly upon
our hearts
Thru His presence
08/27/2003 Coal Creek Chapel
Prayer Changes Everything
Prayer is always
answered
Every prayer
Somehow
Sometime
Someplace
An absolute reality
If we were God,
we would know this
08/27/2999 Coal Creek Chapel
Accepting the Future
I am worried about
many things
Cannot see where
I am going
Don’t know what
lies ahead
Haven’t discovered
my purpose on earth
I have no knowledge of
what tomorrow may bring
While writing, the freedom of
acceptance suddenly
permeates my body
The future will arrive on
the heal of my
acceptance of God
I need to let go to
accept the future
My acceptance is the
path through darkness
Acceptance the road
through blinding reality
With God everything
is the same
Past, present, future
The same
So amazingly simple
Why do we miss this
message so easily?
We can move backward
into death’s hands
Or move forward into
the light of living
If we love God,
we understand
Death or Life
The same for us
Embracing death moves
us into Heaven’s
brilliant light
Accepting His love
moves us to realization
of Salvation
The power of present
and power of
His Presence
Our future vision?
Running to a place where
we can see
His light
05/14/2000 Flight
Memphis to Seattle
God's Presence
God is here
Always is
Always will be
He is here for us,
now and forever
All we need to say
I accept you
into my heart
02/10/2000 Plane
Memphis to Seattle