96, 10-6, SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS, (Scheduled 3/23/2023)
Today we are going to follow up on Dave’s suggestion to read a specific poem. This poem has one of my favorite titles, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrowday. Sometimes I like to play with words and even make my own words. Yesterday, today and tomorrow are all days of our lives. And no, I have not watched this soap opera on tv. I’m not sure how clean I would be after watching an episode.
Ok, enough, I’ll get to reading. Our first poem is found in Living in God’s Rhyme on page 157.
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROWDAY
As I write this it is today.
I wrote the one for yesterday
Sometime earlier today.
You will read this tomorrowday.
Yeah, it sounds nonsensical.
Maybe it’s like something from
A long lost, thankfully, musical
Whose tunes you cannot hum.
For some that is the total sum
Of a week of days ever so weak;
There was yesterday’s yesterday
And then tomorrowday’s tomorrowday.
But we must remember the times
When writing of the week’s rhymes
That spellcheck continues to tell us we that we are wronger
With those red squiggly lines under words that are stronger.
(Writers comment: Man versus machine, God always wins.)
One day tomorrowday will be yesterday.
We cannot worry about whatever day
We find ourselves living in
Whether we lose or we win.
As we face each day we must pray,
Pray aloud that God removes the cloud
Of doubt so we may shout
For the world to hear that we have no fear.
Yes, we will have our coffee,
We will have the lives we live,
But these things become small
When we answer God’s call.
Yesterday I wrote, and today I write
As I will tomorrowday write,
“All I need today is a little Dr. Pepper
And a whole lot of Jesus”
Pray that we may
Stay with him always,
That what we say
May reflect the way
He has saved us,
God’s Son, Jesus.
Discussion:
Not much to say. It’s how my mind works. Crazy, I know; the voices in my head are constantly telling me so.
Let’s see what I wrote some other day. This is found on page 53 of Living In God’s Rhyme.
SUDDEN DAY
The first day of the week,
We worship him in church
As comfort in our lives we seek
Before out the doors we lurch.
Tomorrow begins the weak days,
Those days when we can easily forget
What on Sunday he did say.
As we step in the puddles our feet are wet.
It is me
In the mirror
I do see.
In the morning
There is a warning
In the prayer said
That all I need
Is his word to heed
And I will be led
My soul will be fed
And then I open the door
To the world that wants more.
Each and every day I see
A reflection in the mirror.
But there are so many about
As our lives we live out
That have not heard
Us speak of his word.
We must care,
We must share,
Let them know
As we sow
The seeds
That will feed
More than five thousand,
More than loaves and fish,
More than they could ever wish
In years beyond a thousand.
We can lead them to eternity.
Away from God’s enmity,
So that when it does arrive
Sudden Day they will survive.
Discussion:
As I was putting together the show notes, this thought fell into my mind: Every day I pray that I follow God’s way. What can go wrong as I sing a song of praise to the One He did raise
We’ll end the poetry with one more from Living In God’s Rhyme. This one is on page 58.
ANOTHER DAY TODAY
Not an unusual day,
But I’m glad it’s over.
There’s not a lot to say
Except the day lost its way
About a third into its hours.
Thankfully it didn’t turn sour.
Driving home, seeing the clouds
And thinking, as usual, aloud,
With the threat of rain
There were patches of blue.
There were more than a few.
It made me think of a refrain
From a song
From a time long
Beyond the past,
Time that did not last
But is reborn every day
As to the Lord I pray.
Today when I looked at the sky
I knew there was a reason why,
I finally was glad
For the day I had,
Before I saw the blue,
Before I once more knew
That God is always there,
That he always does care.
When I am otherwise
Occupied with my time,
When I feel the seas rise,
At the end of the day
He always finds a way
To share with me his rhyme.
There is beauty in every day
And at the right time
He shows me the way,
Every day, all of the time.
Discussion:
When the day starts to lead me astray, God shows me the way.
My final thought about todays poems is, Pray, always. God is there in prayer.
As we come to the end of today’s podcast, let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father we come to you in prayer as we end today’s podcast. Dave and I thank You for leading us through the day and into tomorrow. We thank You for all you have led us to and through.
We pray for our listeners and viewers; for their needs, healing and the salvation of those who have not yet accepted the gift of Your grace by faith.
We pray, Lord, for this world in which we live. Father, as Christians lead us to proclaiming the gospel where ever we are. May we do so in a loving way. Lead us to the truth of the days we are living in.
Dear Lord, prepare us and our listeners and viewers for the coming week. We pray that it is You we live for and You who leads us. As we walk with you this week, may it be Your hand clasped around our hand so we may feel the grasp of Your love.
And this week may we remember the words from 2 Corinthians, 12:9;
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you,
my power is perfect in weakness.”
At the beginning and at the end
And every moment in between,
May our strength be for His strength
So His perfection may be seen.
(from God Still Rhymes, Concluding Prayer)
We pray in the name of Jesus, our Savior and Redeemer.
Amen (2/26/23)
If you give
Him the times
As you live
His word rhymes
And don’t forget, “We are the Kings kids and you will never get rid of us for we are His with Jesus.”
Living In God’s Rhyme ©2018 by Tim Carter
God Still Rhymes ©2019 by Tim Carter
God’s Rhyme ©2019 by Tim Carter
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