AWAKENED

 

The snowdrops show with heads like snow

from warming soil where they once did sleep

From peaceful rest awakened now

Their gentle heads in the sun will bow

 

Or the daffodil with their petal frill

from the shadow of trees will peep

Their trumpets announce though not to ear

That spring is finally here

 

Rejoyce now trees swaying in the breeze

Stayed in your place with roots running deep

That the swelling of your buds will be brief

Soon your heads will be crowned with leaf

 

All nature rejoyce giving gladful voice

When awakening over you did creep

Gone now at last is the winter chill

Sing now you valleys and every hill

 

Stirs not your heart when God at the start

Give new life to make it leap

In abundant joy when you released it to Him

From a life of coldness grim

 

Whatever the season there is no reason

To doubt the He won't keep

Your precious soul until at the last

He brings you home to His Heaven vast

CLIMATE CHANGE

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Two auld cows were lying in the grass

Chewing the cud and letting wind pass

Says one to the other,you know Daisy my friend

This clapping and pooing has to come to an end

 

They say every time we spread a wee pat

We are putting methane in the air, what do you think of that

They say we are going to have to wear nappies

This idea came from some scientific chappies

 

Some say we are not allowed to urine down a slope

When we graze on these hills we haven't got a hope

Aye, said Daisy I heard that too

We are warming up the world every time we poo

 

Every time we burp and belch while grazing the grass

We simply are letting out far too much gas

You and me Buttercup are creating a disaster

Every time we go the earth is heating up faster

 

Those humans are worried crying and bleating

The world will be gone with this over heating

Ach, says Buttercup do they never read the good Book

In the Bible itself do they not bother to look

 

For the Lord has promised in what it does say

Seed time and harvest will never pass away

He has set in the heavens His beautiful bow

The world wont flood again and this is so

 

But this fact seems to evade these smart men

Jesus to this world is coming back again

It will still be here when He comes the second time

No matter what they say about the earth's clime

 

They had better wake up and not worry about the earth

There is a hotter place to go if they have not the new birth

God is in control, new heavens and earth will arrange

So worry about your souls and not climate change

OH THE PEACE

Oh the peace oh the joy

oh the happiness in my soul

the Lord came in, saved from sin

now my life He has made whole

 

Want to shout it, may I sing it

wanting now to give it voice

my total glee, Jesus saving me

let my words flow as I rejoyce

 

Thank you Lord, thank you so

thank you for your work of grace

I only know and this is so

in you I have a resting place

 

Give you thanks, give You praise

of salvation I want to tell

how it came in your name

now with my soul all is well

 

You are mine I am yours

for eternity that will never cease

washed in the blood, that crimson flood

such total joy and oh the peace

THE WAY TO THE CROSS

No innocent kiss but paid with silver

Betrayed my Saviour that dreadful night

After He had prayed with sweats of blood

The way of the cross now in His sight

 

Meek as a lamb they led Him away

Judas the traitor's work was done

Now all the forces of darkness

Were ready to attack God's only Son

 

For a mockery of a trial awaited Him

Then the scourge of a Roman whip

When they bared up His bent back

Tore it to ribbons strip by strip

 

Can you feel that awful pain

As the lash ripped of His flesh

Bone was bared in the whipping

As the soldiers continued to thresh

 

Remember how Peter betrayed him

How Pontious Pilate washed his hands

When he give in to the baying crowd

To their hateful “crucify him” demands

 

A wicked thief they would have released

They did not care for this innocent Man

Crucify Him now, spill His blood

To have Him dead was their wicked plan

 

A crown of thorns placed on His head

Thick spittals ran down His lovely face

A slow walk up a steep hill side

Calvary's summit was His dying place

 

How He heard the hostile crowd

Mocking Him along with taunts and jeers

Words of hatred spewed from their lips

With oaths and curses and nasty sneers

 

Now swings low the hammer blows

Driving through His flesh each iron nail

Now He is lifted high on His cross

While the crowd continued to mock and rail

 

He saved others let Him come down

But my Saviour stayed in His place

For love held Him there to the wood

As He suffered for the human race

 

Darkness fell, day was as night

God was punishing now His son

It was for my sins, your sins,He took it all

For nothing wrong had my Saviour done

 

Imagine that blackness over the earth

Imagine the day turning into the night

So a dying Saviour on the cross

Could bring sinners from darkness into light

 

What suffering what pain He bore it all

Drunk the wrath from His Father's cup

But God was sastisfied with His sacrifice

When on that cross He was lifted up

 

Then He cried, It is finished

Wonderful words just these three

The plan of redemption now complete

As Jesus died on that tree

 

We know that death could not Him hold

For He arose from the depth of the grave

Now He reigns there in the highest

Waiting and so willing for sinners to save

 

Consider Him sinner consider how He died

Consider the love He has for your soul

Consider all the agony He went through

Consider Him broken just to make you whole

 

Then consider if you reject this Saviour now

Dare you die in the blackness of your sin

Dare to take a chance but in eternity to be lost

Because to your heart you wouldn't let Him in

FINAL SLEEP

 

Final sleep only opens up a door

While it firmly closes one behind

No turning back to the life you knew

Now a different one you'll find

 

What's through this door is decided

By the decisions you made on earth

Whether you rejected saving grace

Or embraced God's new birth

 

See the door now open up to you

Beyond it is there a shinning light

Is there a golden street ahead of you

Are you heading towards a mansion bright

 

Can you hear the choirs of angels

Are you meeting Jesus face to face

Are you lying on His breast in comfort

Held firmly in His warm embrace

 

Can you hear His well done

As He wipes every teardrop away

Come my child enter into your rest

You are in my home to stay

 

Or have you walked through the door

Only darkness meets your eyes

The tormenting flames are leaping

In that place where the worm never dies

 

Do you hear the wails of anguish

The gnashing of many teeth

Do you hear the screams of terror

In the bottomless pit with not beneath

 

Oh that door is coming near

Every moment towards it you creep

Make that decision for your soul

Before you fall into final sleep

A BED OF ROSES

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Must we go on a bed of roses

Scented with perfume to our noses

In gentle slumber our quiet repose

Why otherwise should we suppose

We'd go to heaven but in comfort

No need for us to resort

To put on armour and the sword

Then fight for God and His word

Why others did all the toil

Burned in flames and boiled in oil

Torn to pieces in lion's den

No need to go through all that again

No need to hide in cave or den

Keep quiet our faith from evil men

Why risk the pain of a lashing whip

When we can avoid all hardship

A sleeping people at our ease

Can't even be bothered to get on our knees

To a church might go along

Hear a little sermon and a heavenly song

We have freedom we have peace

But our love for God does not increase

Because the bed we are floating on

Is full of roses and strife is gone

Maybe some day in our land

We will feel the tyrants hand

Then we will know our faith is tried

Like others knew who bled and died

Thank God you have that bed of slumber

That of the martyrs you will not number

But here I give my final thought

How hard for the faith have you fought

 

LET IT RAIN

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DEWDROPS OF REFRESHMENT

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FISH LEGS

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I know about fish fingers

They are a tasty bite to eat

You can have them with bread and butter

It all goes down a treat

 

Have them with chips if you want

The taste it surely lingers

There is nothing fishy about them

You can always count on fingers

 

But fish legs are another thing

Can you order them in two's or threes

Do they come with a full leg

Complete with knobbly knees

 

I can imagine some old trout

With fishnet stockings on

Walking down the road

It's something to think upon

 

Professor Moore of intellect

Versed in fishy things

Says he has them boneless

Along with chicken wings

 

I mind frying eels

They wriggled as they fried

I wonder if fish legs do the same

But them I've never tried

 

They say they come from an octupus

But is it really a fish

Don't care one way or the other

I wouldn't have it on my dish

 

Do the legs come with a foot

More information if you please

And if it was on my supper plate

Would it play football with my peas

 

Now I have just googled

Don't want to seem a cod

But have just learned it's not a fish

It's a great big cephalopod

 

It's legs are really arms

I counted they had but eight

I don't really care about that

It still wont be on my plate

 

There are soles that are fish you know

Maybe they have big feet

Fingers legs or arms

They all seem good to eat

 

None would be out of plaice

Boiled in a saucepan with a lid

They don't really cost too much

You would get them for a few squid

 

Now all this talk of fish

Has made me think of One

Who called to Himself some fishermen

To follow Him God's Son

 

He said He would make them fishers of men

Take scales from blinded eyes

Open up the ears of sinners

Free them from the devil's lies

 

As He tasked them to preach His Gospel

Like all His followers should do

We all have a net to cast

He made fishermen of me and you

 

To carry on this theme I have started

If we are successful in our task

We will have a harvest of souls in Heaven

If we obey what Jesus did as

I NEED

I need to take your hand o Lord

To walk in nature's wonder

To satisfy my artist heart

In the scenery that you paint

Here there and yonder

 

The blueness of the sky above

The clouds that dance along

The hills that kiss them

And the valleys spread

Give my heart a song

 

The verdant green how you mix

The colour for the grass

Of spread out field

And leaf of tree

Your brushwork is first class

 

Dip your paintbrush in green and blue

Spread it on the ocean wide

The yellow tinted haze

Of beach and sand

That is rolled over with the tide

 

I need to take your hand o Lord

To walk among the flowers

To satisfy my gardener's heart

In the hedgerows of the country

Or the daisy strewn fields

In them let me spend my hours

 

The lily of the valley

The pink and purple rose

The beauty of each petal

Of some lowly buttercup

Smiling at my toes

 

I need to take your hand o Lord

To walk in melody sweet

To satisfy my musicians heart

In the love song of a bird

Or bees with gentle hum

And the little cricket chirping at my feet

 

Listen to the running water

That babbles in a stream

Gurgling over stones

There on its primrose sides

I could lie in pleasant dream

 

I need to take your hand o Lord

For with no other I would stroll

To satisfy my every need

Down life's road you are the one

Who brings all the joys to my life

And everything that fills my soul