A Mother Discovers
Nine months of wonder fill her days,
Patiently caressing her belly,
Sideways glancing into a long mirror,
Heartbeats thud through a sonograms jelly.
Minutes quicken between contractions,
Short breaths, stirrups, and encouraging words,
A last push, a smile, a newborn’s reaction.
A name is given as pain and joy blur.
Another newborn.
Another Mother.
Another miracle of love is discovered.
By Chris Clody 5/10/15
We somehow cannot escape prejudice. Inheriting this sordid gene that enables the young, hopeful, innocent heart to harden towards another. We seem to glisten with the sweat of hate yet wear it in vanity. From micro-aggression to hate crimes, justification to harm another seems to allow reason to our lost herd mentality for survival of the fittest. Even, the goodness of the Gospel has been perverted for power and oppression. This very hope of life for all, is rather used as a weapon with hard edges as Bibles are thrown by the ignorant and unstable to hurt those in unchangeable realities. How sad. How destructive. Woe to them, the false preachers, the rabid born-again, instruments of harm not peace – for their destruction does not sleep.
Woe of Judgment
Woe to the ignorant and unstable,
Who grievously distort holy Scripture,
Off’ring sacrifice of Cain not Abel,
Condemning outcasts with sores and blisters,
Judging as Creator not like creature.
Woe to preachers who boast not of mercy,
Whose words isolate, ravage, and injure,
Yet are slaves to their own depravity,
The blackest dark awaits their treachery.
Hope is a saving love, your friend in need,
Harden not your hearts, Let Me set you free,
I know of your hardship and the pain you bleed.
Come to Me, you wearied and oppressed,
Lay your burdens down, for I will give you rest.
by Chris Clody 2/6/15
His Peace,
Chris
Fear to Crucify
We numb what we hate to crucify,
In fear we can’t be free.
To kill the sin seems unjustified,
Scared to lose identity,
I ignore what’s killing me.
The sin within must never prosper,
Fed through vices sheepishly,
The death of Christ revealed to sinners,
God’s judgment of sin to see –
The cost of depravity.
Bruised and broken,
He hung for me,
Love unspoken,
Death…sets… me… free.
As the incarnate Word gives up His Ghost,
He sends another to my side,
He too is God who convicts selfish boasts,
Hanging sin on my whipping post.
My sin must accept its bitter passion,
For Christ out-loves my harmful rebellion.
Now that the Father has drawn me near,
I dare crucify sin without fear.
©2012 by Chris Clody 4/10/2012
How does the following verse speak to you?
“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Romans 6:6
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