8/23/26 Through 8/29/26

 8/23/26 Through 8/29/26

Sunday

In deepest sleep, from Adam's side

A rib was formed into his bride

So, blood and water from Christ's side,

The seed from which the Church arrived

The gift of self to form the bonds

The love to which the bride responds

No greater gift when we believe

By giving self, so we receive

How deep beyond the mind of man

The details of the Father's plan

No man could ever know the scope

Or more than in the darkness grope

So, say ye now, what you believe

So Kingdom Keys you may receive

All debt on Earth is in your hand

Make giving all, your one command

Monday

Your friends, oh Lord, all make it known

The splendor all Your works have shown

We draw the disbelieving in

And call them to repent from sin

Not loving when we treat the lie

As truth and let the wayward die

In sin, estranged from Love Divine

To dwell amidst the evil swine

The sinner needs to know the truth

They should have learned as just a youth

What God has said is truth indeed

And that is what we all must heed

His truth is like a precious stone

With each a beauty all its own

A masterpiece of art displayed

When just the way of truth obeyed

Tuesday

Strain the gnat, the camel swallow

Blinded guides the blinded follow

In the pit they both are falling

None can see or hear their calling

All of great import be seeing

From the lesser tasks be fleeing

Cleanse the inside, clear the sin

Make it truly clean within

Tithes of mint and rue all flowing

Yet inside the evil growing

Judgment, Mercy, Heaven, Hell

Weighty things of which we tell

Turn around and clean the inside

Stand erect and face the wind side

Be a man and choose the truth

Be example for the youth

Wednesday

A hypocrite so many times

The perpetrator of the crimes

Not wise enough to see my guilt

On shifting sand, a dwelling built

Facade of righteousness outside

But filth upon the other side

It's not but empty show inside

A store of only foolish pride

Humility the antidote

To counteract this prideful bloat

A placing others high above

And serving all with faithful love

Thursday

A steady job we all must do

Not failing in our task from you

For when at last You come to reap

We must be seen as not asleep

We must be found one hard at work

Not as the ones who duties shirk.

For on that day is just reward

Some fortunes lost, and some restored

Friday

Unsearchable the depths of God

The core of Truth, within no fraud

So far beyond the mind of man

To question Him, no mortal can

The wise He shows to be the fool

The humble chosen all to rule

The wisdom in the Father's way

Confounds the wisest of the day

Be ready now at anytime

To hear the final church bell chime

The wise, with love, their lamps will show

Within, a deep and warming glow

The fool, surprised, is unprepared

And love within, cannot be shared

So, cultivate while time remains

To so avoid eternal pains

Saturday

For simple truth, he lost his head

Precursor of the Lord was dead

The immorality was clear

But sinful ears refused to hear

With every word he stood between

Morality, and king and queen

Her wickedness in thirst of blood

Came forth amid an evil flood

A man of truth and purity

The likes of which we rarely see

Was silenced for a righteous deed

The sinful leaders failed to heed