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Flask
1-4-14


Is Christ therefore a minister of sin
God forbid
By my memories
Of the out trips
To the convenience store
Sipping my coffee upon which is a tight lid
I could not seal shut
What I had on my heart
To but shine forth
Being one to gamble
By which my wages I yet bid
For if I build again the things destroyed
I make myself a transgressor
Yet amongst and amid
As a window pried ajar
And my deeds that travel far...










Odd And Even
1-4-14


I, through the law
Died to the law
That I might live to God
While that which appears to be even
Has potential to be found as odd
Where it is I that no longer liveth
But Christ in me
In that I am yet to love them
With an iron rod
Capturing this base riff
To build my hut with bricks of sod
For if righteousness comes by this law
Then Christ is dead in vain
Made once again alive
By the thawing of snowfall
That melts into rain....

























Two Sides Included
1-4-14


Justification is wholly apart from the law
Where grace doth abound
As well inside dishes of red beets and coleslaw
O, foolish Galatians
Who hath bewitched thee
That you should base this faith upon vegetables raw
Where so is contained more nutrition
By the wall torn down
Of such a partition
Turning the pulpit over to Bruce
He has a new style
In his eighteenth studio album
Coming out next Tuesday
I say this much to be not one to deny Him....

























Putting In Another Shift
1-4-14


I practice my faith
Every time I look back down upon my Bible page
Where I can always come back to it
According to today's shift and worker's wage
Being today the poet
Twice before called the sage
Before whose eyes Jesus was clearly portrayed among you
As crucified where the way is narrow
But the mind yet is vast and wide
I put my faith into action
Every time I take up this pen
Being one grateful for this advantage
To read the book of Galatians again....










Dead And Alive
1-4-14


Last night I fell fast asleep
During the Cotton Bowl
To dream of what I would try to do
According to my new years resolution and goal
So I step up to turn off my television
And went on my merry way
Back to bed in my own way
Of being very much alive while dead
As so my cat uses my Schofield Bible for a pillow
And man doth not live upon only bread
Not by the works of law
But by the hearing of faith
Much more than just in my head....












On Galatians 3:9
1-4-14


Those whom are of faith
Are blessed with our believing Abraham
So I answered again my telephone
And it was another money making scam
I should have talked to them about Jesus
But I just hung up and went back to my meditation
Determined to make it through the day
With a word such as Beautiful
That was all I had to say
Still subject to the works of the law
And therefore I see this curse
With prayers that as well
My brother will come to understand this verse....