What I believe: that happiness begins
When we surrender at the cross our sins
Where Happiness Begins: An Easter Poem
Crying “Abba! Father!” (Romans 8:15b)
As heirs, we call upon the Patriarch,
Whose house holds all of heaven’s wealth immense;
The Spirit of Adoption (Romans 8:14-17)
Not only does the Spirit raise the dead,
Which once you were in deed and attitude,
Who Can Dissever? (Romans 8:31-39)
Who can, if God is for us, dare oppose?
Who can bring charge against God’s justified?
Freed from Death’s Snare to be God’s Heir (Romans 8:12-17)
My brothers, we are debtors not to flesh
In bondage to our bodies’ every wish;
Consider Suffering (Romans 8:18-23)
Anticipation hangs upon the breath
Of every creature dwelling on the earth,
Thirst for God (Psalm 63)
O God, You are my God and all I seek;
For You alone, my soul is parched with thirst;
Balaam’s Final Oracle (Numbers 24:14-24)
“With opened eyes, I see Him not of now,
And through God’s words behold Him from afar.
Balaam’s 3rd Oracle (Numbers 24:3-9)
“The oracle of Balaam, Beor’s Son,
Of the man whose eye-curtains now divide,
Balaam’s 2nd Oracle (Numbers 23:18-24)
“Give ear to me, O cursing son of wrath:
The LORD is not a man that He should lie