Butterfly
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By Peter O
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Butterfly "But if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and He will be given it." James 1:5 Father, The soul Is Your butterfly, yes, Through water and the Spirit, The soul breaks free From Adam's cocoon; and With Jesus-Hued wings, Flies to You. As a Monarch butterfly, The soul lifts up to You and Wings pass all the eye-spearing owls as They perch on the limbs of the worldly. They screech through the night -- Faith is the lore of the lonely, The wisdom of the weak. Clearly, Father, yes,very clear, The have not flown with Jesus-Wings. No, Faith Is wisdom's beam, It light truth's path. and Dims only when trust mists. For, Faith Is for those with heart, Who fear not risk, but Have the mettle To leave their will For a life trusting Your Will. This is wisdom. |
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Submitted: Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 2011
About the Poet
I am 79 years of age. For the past nine years I have been retired, after forty years, from the field of alcoholism and drug abuse in New York City.
I am married and we have two grown sons
and two grand-sons.
My life changed through a grace-experience in 1967.
Writing Christian prayers is a particular interest of mine. This came about by a growing awareness of the
spiritual in recovery from addictions.
I choose, intellectually and emotionally, to believe the Triune God of the Sared Scriptures as my Healer.
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- Armor
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- Beginning
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- Blacksmith
- Blessed
- Boast
- Bridge
- Broken of Heart
- But
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- Butterfly
- Chasing the Wind
- Child-Like
- Choice
- Christ's Walkers
- Christian Tears
- Christmas
- Come
- Confidence
- Consider
- Creator's Craft
- Crossroad
- Depression
- Depression 1
- Depth
- Desert-Gift
- Distractions
- Draught
- Dwell
- Ego-Born
- Envy
- Envy
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- Ex-cru-ciate
- Faith Heals
- Faith's Love
- Faith, Hope and Charity
- Faith-Path
- Farewell
- Fasten
- Fire-Soul
- Fix Your Eyes
- Footing
- Forgivness
- Foundation
- Fountain
- Fruits of the Spirit
- Fullness
- Fullness
- Gift
- Gift
- Glory-Engraved
- God Is Silence
- God-Cold-World
- God-Fleshed
- God-Speak
- God-Taught
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- Gratitude
- Gratitude
- Greatest
- Hammer
- Hand of Welcome
- Hands
- Harbor and Port
- Harp
- Hasten
- He Is .............
- His Name
- Holy Spirit
- Honesty
- Honor and Glory
- How?
- I AM
- In the Wilderness
- Incredible
- Inner Silence
- Invigorate
- It is Written
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- Jesus?
- Journey
- Joy
- Land of the Living
- Lead Us Not
- Lease
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- Life-Finder
- Listen
- Live
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- Lost
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- Pruning
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- The First
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