LENTEN PILGRIMAGE Gunerius C. Lee 1871-1943
LENTEN PILGRIMAGE – Gunerius C. Lee ‘Tis well that Christians meet in LentA pilgrimage afar to make.To view again that world eventIn which they have so much at stake.To see the figure of the LordStretched out and nailed through hands and feet—Then pity flows with one accordFrom each sad heart with every beat. But fierce […]
LOVING YOU Hannes Zegement Grove
LOVING YOU – Hannes Zegement Grove LOVING YOU Loving you is embracing the wind and folding your warm arms around the coldness of the windy taste, all the icy warmth you got from your Antarctica you took and you held me tight. I felt your rock-hard heart, pumping against your chest, your sad troubled eyes […]
LOST IN A WORLD Hannes Zegement Grove
LOST IN A WORLD – Hannes Zegement Grove LOST IN A WORLD Lost in a world from eyes hiddenIn this place of miracles totally forbiddenWalking past your girl imperfect but forgivenLoving you secretly—you’re not allowed in the worldI’m currently living in Lost in this spirit filled world perfectly perfectMeeting humanity I honestly do not regretBut […]
LIFE IS NOT A FAIRY TALE Hannes Zegement Grove
LIFE IS NOT A FAIRY TALE – Hannes Zegement Grove LIFE IS NOT A FAIRY TALEThea Life is not a fairy taleNothing lasts forever…The love in my heart always uncloudedBut my love was answered with immoralityWith pure adulterated intimation As if to say I was not enoughThat I was unworthy of love and respectUsed like […]
LAW-GOSPEL Hannes Zegement Grove
LAW-GOSPEL – Hannes Zegement Grove LAW-GOSPEL God’s word has two parts―the law and the gospel―and there is a danger in either confusing or separating them. The law commands and the gospel gives. The law says “Do” and the gospel says, “Done!” equally God’s Word, both are good, but God does different things through them. In […]
Listen, Oh, Listen
Listen, Oh, Listen Listen, oh, listen, my Father, all holy, Humble and sorrowful, owning my sin, Hear me confess in my penitence lowly How in my weakness temptation came in. Pity me now, for, my Father, no sorrow Weighs on my soul like the pain that I know, Trembling and fearing that all thro’ the […]
Let Me Be A Light Angie Conjurske
Let Me Be A Light – Angie Conjurske Dear Lord, I ask for liberty That in my heart you’d make me free. Dear Lord, I ask for liberty That in my heart you’d make me free. I ask for peace and graciousness, And that myself I would love less. I ask for love that Jesus […]
Lyke As the Armed Knight
Lyke As the Armed Knight Lyke as the armed knightAppointed to the feeld, The Ballade which Anne Askewe made and sange, whan she was in Newgate. [Ann Askew was burned in Smithfield in July of 1546. Newgate is the prison which she occupied before her martyrdom. This poem appears in a sixteenth-century (undated) print of […]
Lord, Grant Us When Weary and Sad
Lord, Grant Us When Weary and Sad Lord, grant us when weary and sad we are feeling, Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all the places whither thou goest. Lord, grant us when weary and sad we are feeling,The hope that our journey in gladnessshall end;And better then all in sure […]
Lord Jesus, Think on Me Synesius of Cyrene
Lord Jesus, Think on Me – Synesius of Cyrene Lord Jesus, think on meAnd purge away my sin; Lord Jesus, think on meAnd purge away my sin;From earthborn passions set me freeAnd make me pure within. Lord Jesus, think on me,With many a care oppressed;Let me Thy loving servant beAnd taste Thy promised rest. Lord […]
Lord, Let Me Know Mine End James Montgomery
Lord, Let Me Know Mine End – James Montgomery Lord, let me know mine end,My days, how brief their date, Lord, let me know mine end,My days, how brief their date,That I may timely comprehendHow frail my best estate. My life is but a span,Mine age as nought with thee;Man, in his highest honour, manIs […]
Looking This Way J. W. Van DeVenter
Looking This Way – J. W. Van DeVenter Over the river faces I see, Fair as the morning, looking for me; Free from their sorrow, grief, and despair, Waiting and watching patiently there. Looking this way, yes looking this way, Loved ones are waiting, looking this way; Fair as the morning, bright as the day, […]