Palm Sunday Certainty

Will I lay my cloak before you in the thrill of morning ride ;
or pull it tighter round me in chilled shadows fireside?
Will my sword flash bright in battle as I bravely shout your fame
or will my words come quick and angry, standing by the fire's flame?

Your healing words will always,be ones that I can keep;
after restless nights of fishing when my troubled heart yearns sleep,
Your love always restores me, as you speak, “go , feed my sheep”!

A promise kept
Is an Amen to the heart!
It is a Yes
To Life and Joy.
The whole world waits
With breath contained
To see a Word maintained.

Each day a hope
Wakes in our breast
To believe in love
Yearn to be blest
Beneath the desire
For fame and wealth
Is the deeper need
To experience truth.

In the eyes of a friend
In a handclasp hello
In the greeting of sunrise
To children below
A Father renews
His love for his own
And whispers His promise
I’ll not leave you alone.
chk

This Temporal Planet

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever.

It is not fixed.

The earth is always shifting,

the light is always changing ,

the sea does not cease to grind down the rock.



Generations do not cease to be born,

and we are responsible to them,

because we are the only witnesses they have.



The sea rises, the light fails,

lovers cling to each other,

and children cling to us.



The moment we cease to hold each other,

the moment we break faith with one another,

the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.