WADI-A-DO,
When the answer’s deeper,
WADI-A-DO
When the feeling’s raw…
WADI-A-DO
When embedded sleepers
Inhibit one’s own jaw?
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Now we’ve gone to two weeks
Between sessions just when I hurt
My weekly safety net is in ruins
While my problems have a growth spurt!
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WADI-A-DO
When nothing lasts forever,
WADI-A-DO
When your core seems rotten too…
WADI-A-DO
To find yourself a lever
A loving God provided that for you!
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–Jonathan Caswell
MORNING IS BREAKING
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Morning is breaking and I’m up,
Working out my salvation….
Perhaps it’s time to say that’s enough,
Expressing my derivation.
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Light appears by spinning of Earth,
Those who are on it sit still…
Locked to the surface most are from birth
Enlightened by a loving God’s will.
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Windows through which we see coming dawn
Closed against morning chill…
Open wide as warm air comes on
List’ning to birdsong trill.
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I have to rest–breathing is poor,
I’ll know as I try to walk back…
This foot wound hurts and morning is still,
But how we poets yack!
–Jonathan Caswell
WHY WOULD A LOVING GOD PERMIT…???
A Christian recently
Asked this question of me…
He had no answer
For shootings or cancer,
That others had asked ceaselessly.
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I promised I would try,
With God’s help to reply…
We each have a voice
In our lives and a choice,
To live for Him or “I”.
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If God wanted, He could have got,
Some attention from a programmed robot…
But love is in choosing,
Not coerced accusing
So He gave us the choice from the start.
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Some things are not chosen, like menses,
But every choice has consequences…
When His wisdom is rejected
A different consequence is selected,
Determined by past/present tenses!
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God wants His children to run
Toward Him, but He won’t force anyone…
As a Father he waits
Until we appreciate,
All the blessings He will do for those who come.
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Some folks talk about a loving God,
But their vision of Him is really odd…
They want to be pampered,
Left in diapers to scamper
Around with an adult bod.
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In life, we have suffering and pain,
No one totally understands what we gain…
But those who have matured
And life’s hardship endured,
Know better how to love, all the same.
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Now I’m not saying anything new,
Would a bride want a groom acting as though he were two?
Our parents may want to shield
Us from the worst that life deals,
But one grows by living it through.
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Is God still loving–He surely is,
He’ll use even bad times for His kids…*
To grow up and mature,
In faith greatly endure…
Everyone faces suffering as Christ did.
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For this is a fallen world,
That into, every one of us is hurled…
Will you suffer angrily
Or submit to Deity,
Facing life as a child of God, as it’s unfurled?
–Jonathan Caswell
*Romans 8:28
By the Mighty Mumford 