Excerpts of A Splendid Awakening

 

 

“….The perfecting process is not rushed

Tis a custom fitting process of sorts

Much like the purification of gold

With no mark to define perfection

Journey of spiritual transformation

Continues with an everlasting hope

But there is a threshold to be met

Before man’s joined with the divine….”

 

“….Sacrifices made in goodness breed hope

As pulses of life in the stream of the pure

Such keeps the traveler from getting lost

Affords him the means to make it home

Thru life’s disappointments and letdowns

 To plant precious seeds of love in hope

 Yields a vineyard attended by the divine

 To produce that which endures and fulfills….”

 

“….Time separates the future from the past

To mold a vessel fit for each new season

But the young and faithless are misled

To attempt to patch the old on the new

Demands an accounting from man as well

 For every gift that life bestows on him

The faith of the recipient will be tested

In trials, temptations and tribulations….”

 

“….Charity frames faithfulness so all men can see

Not as an indication of abundance or excess

Nor statement of affluence or being well off

But in service for all in the spirit of divine love

It asks for living so that goodness can abound

And ushers in the enlightening and revelatory

For where charity is rendered and received

There man can have a glimpse of the divine….”

 

“….Tis a season appointed for the old to make way for new

 When things look good without but are rotten to the core  

A time to recoil from the shame of man’s spiritual ugliness

As the grip of darkness holds many souls in deadly choke

Tis a time of great anguish in heaven at man’s hypocrisy

 When the stink of human corruption reaches the exalted

 Tis a low point that foretells the collapse of the existing

 And beginning of a pristine where nothing ugly can hide….”

 

“….Thankfulness costs very little yet it can give so much

 To affirm goodness that’s rendered and well-received

For it refreshes the soul and revives the depleted spirit

And puts a smile in the heart wearied of life’s troubles

Thankfulness reassures during down moments of life

To help man realize that he does not labor in vain

When truth falls on deaf ears amid rejecting hearts

And weariness of flesh leads footsteps to drag….”

 

“….Deprivation does bring a baptism of fire

And for the faithful a season of change

The baptismal flame does brindle him

Yet his core is protected and untouched

Man brindled but not scorched within

 Is one pruned and transformed in spirit

 To produce good and enduring works

 Such that ever endure to shine in glory….”

 

“….Life  on earth is akin  to a divine distillery

With light of truth to catalyze the process

That separates and purifies souls of men

So the purified rises but the debased falls

World of the carnal is left for the debased

For soulless ones who feast on each other

There’s the best and the worst of mankind

With a sure firmament to keep both apart….”

 

“….The gentle sweet voices of goodness and mercy

Motivate those who travel in stream of the eternal

Certain men who do certain things at certain times

As matter and energy idealized in space and time

Faithfulness always yields to God’s sovereign will

So that as goodness and mercy fill the ghost of time

Man can wake up in spirit in the image of the divine

To find his earthly lot made fruitful and multiplied….”

 

“….Enduring gifts are bestowed freely but not free

 For the good in life is wrought by a test of faith

Only way to victory is through faith’s testing fire

 A beast to be slain before each victory is secured

Tis by test of faith that the tree of righteousness

Is built up by rings of trial to become a Colossus….”

 

“….To let the past go allows man to find the new

In a time and place where all can be golden

The tribulations of the past teach useful lessons

Strengthens man in way of love and forgiveness

For by the pain and passion endured thru faith

He comes to find way ‘tween heaven and earth….”