This Side of the Whirlwind: Happy I Love Thee

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Poems, Poetry from the Heart

It makes my heart truly happy,   

to know the love we share,               

to feel our hearts set soaring,

to see our hearts laid bare.

Forever to love you in the now, in the then,

forever free to embrace you, as a lover and dear friend.

Blessed assurance – as our feelings soar, to thrive,

fabled emotions, our hearts twin rhythms of life.

Your love burns more deeply – than any hot iron could sear, convey,

our hearts ever healing oer brands of burning spate.

My love, my darling, sweet hope, my most dear,

Forever sweet beloved – surrendered hearts in wonderous abandon.

Thy Swain

Steven R. Harrel to his lifelong Sweetheart, Pamela

11/07/2009

This Side of the Whirlwind: Crossing the Line

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Just from the Heart, Poems, Poetry, Steven R. Harrel for This Side of the Whirlwind

Crossing the line

I was laughing through my tears,

From a distance I drew you near.

Though I hate and love you so;

Please just stay when you should go.

By, Steven R. Harrel

Listen to Great-Grandfather

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Poetry

SEP 9, 2021 AT 4:06 PM

Chimes blown by the desert winds,

Ticking,

Voices in the crowd speaking something true – few take note.

Great words of wisdom to the proud, bruised ears set to itching,

Youthful eyes seeing – yet no hint of cheeks set glistening.

Know ye the number of the Troubadours’ trump before one soul is e’er redeemed?

How blows unholy winds: puffing hair, chimes too fair, tongues that wag, joy in the wayward?

Heralded times go unheeded.

Bugled sounds from the heights of neglected ramparts.

To trust those whose approval is found in others – but not from He who is On-High?

Seek not the Maker in song or truth?

Where have our Pillars gone?

We listen to Great-Grandfathers’ toll, his ticking, no soul.

By Steven R. Harrel

9/09/2021

The Toad Abode

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Poetry

There once lived a frog whose abode was a toadstool

Whose black and yellow eyes were always looking for a feast

He loved his habitat so close was this and that

All within his reach satisfaction was replete…

His sky was blue on blue

And his stream was filled with food

The sun’s great heat it soon abated

By the mushroom his head was shaded

And the fungi drew his prey

So most pleasant was each day…

Then one balmy amorous night

His black and yellows they caught sight

Of a beauty more than rare

Whose slender flippers were most fair

When her song she croaked and sung

His heart grew warm and croaked along…

It was then that he did know

He must have her – he must go

Forgo his grand most safe abode

To have this beauty by his side

He must make her his new bride…

But what of his abode

Dare he leave and take the chance

For one daring night’s romance…

Would she in turn find him eye-catching?

He might not similarly be so fetching.

 He might be loathsome in her sight

What would he do if he were right…

It was then that he decided

And forcefully he chided

Himself for ever doubting

His handsome lips now a pouting

What she-toad could him resist

His abode and handsomeness

Toadstool heaven he would chase

Thank you God what a place!

By Steven R. Harrel – 2009

Our Father: Prayer

Level 2 Memory Verse: should require 8 to 10 days to memorize and with ongoing, daily recitation fully memorized for life within 30 to 50 days.

I consider Matthew 6:9-13 a Level 2 Memory Verse because it is so often quoted and heard in society. The section of scripture also flows like a beautiful river.  Here we go:

• Our Father Who art in heaven, Hollowed be Thy name.
• Thy kingdom come.  Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven.
• Give us this day our daily bread.
• And forgive us our debts, even as we forgive our debtors.
• And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
• For Thine is the kingdom  –  and the power  –  and the glory  –  for ever, and ever. Amen
• (Matthew 6:9-13 KJV)

Bee-U-Tee-Ful!

Matthew 6:9-13 is most often referred to as “The Lord’s Prayer”.

It is formulaic and designed to provide a structure from which to pray.

For example: the fourth line above “Give us this day our daily bread” is related to our provision, but not ours alone.  The fourth line and every line within this passage can be used to pray for your every prayer.  Yes, you can pray for your sustenance and resources by simply praying the Lord’s Prayer, but you can just as easily expand each line within the Lord’s Prayer to pray for you and your family’s and friend’s greater good.

If you have never used the Lord’s Prayer in such a manner – give it a shot.

• Our Father, our great and might Lord, Hollowed be they wonderful and glorious name.
• Thy kingdom come into my life. Thy will be done in my every act and deed, in every area of my life here on this earth even as all things are done according to Your will and purpose in heaven.
• Give us this day our daily bread, oh Lord.  Meet the needs of our family our friends our neighbors.
• And forgive us our debts, our sins against You and our loved ones, even as we forgive our debtors; our peers; our spouse, our parents (as applies to your life).
• And lead us not into temptation, You know the ones of which I speak.
• But deliver us, Lord Jesus from that evil one and from our own wicked ways.
• For Thine is the kingdom, our future is Yours.
• And Thine is the power, for there is no greater.
• And Thine is the glory and honor and praise.
• Both now and forever my glorious King. Amen!

Blessed be the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ!

Have a glorious day.

This Side of the Whirlwind: Walk the Walk

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Don't Be Afraid!, Love

Here’s Your Chance!

You know how – at times – we’re looking for ways to show our Christian love and charity to our fellow man/woman/kiddo…?

Just like you wouldn’t want to kiss a cat with sticky lips…

(You know I mean – your lips being sticky – not the cat’s lips.  That would be gross) 😦

You wouldn’t want to kiss this opportunity to show your Christian love and charity goodbye.  This is the perfect opportunity for us to live the talk of our faith.  Demonstrate the love God He has sewn in us to all those people who know you’re a living breathing Christian, right?

After all, if we (the Christians) get sick and die the worse thing that happens to us is that we join the Lord in paradise.  Where’s the down side?

1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

So get out there and share, share, share HIS love and mercy! 

   

Good chatting with ya!

 

Eternal Hope? :This Side of the Whirlwind

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From The Heart, Love, Poems

Eternal Hope

Decades passed entrenched in great, deep abiding hope

Time Is A Wasted: Poem

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From The Heart, Hearing God's Voice, Poems

Time Is A Wasted

Oh folly of man, oh arrogance of my kindred, whilst thou would not humblest thyself in the knowledge of thy God and recognize His greatness amidst the bottomless quality of thy immeasurable comparative insignificance, others accomplish His will whilst thy bosom remains empty.

Written by Steven R. Harrel   11/29/2010

This Side of the Whirlwind: Flowers’ Heir

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Flowers’ Heir

Remember, our needs are met in Christ Jesus even as the Flowers of the field.

It’s just that sometimes we don’t feel or understand where God is going with our lives.

For your edification and enjoyment…

Flowers’ Heir

In great beauty you are spun from soil and air,

Light from distant sun and seed of formers fair;

Then with great beauty once again you are spun,

Until in your juniors your face smiles towards distant sun.

 

Ephemeral Senectitude: Poems

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From The Heart, Poems, Steven R. Harrel for This Side of the Whirlwind

Ephemeral Senectitude

 

      Days of pastel blues and lusterless reds could fill the inevasible blind pages to come.  I see the splendor of my own antecedence, or rather the privation thereof.  Once bound in a twirl of youthful folly now I marvel, can they not see?

I think they too, as I once, choose drunkenly, willfully to be ensnared by the false comfort of never‑ending youth; the pervasive: “There will be time”.

Though I have traveled many roads and stumbled on paths bleak,