Wednesday

H Is for Holiness

Posted for a variety of prompts: ABC Wednesday (“H is for . . . “) Heads or Tails (“box”) Hump Day Humor (“oil”) In Other Words (“Pressing Close to God”) Matinee Muse (“rising above” or “conflicted emotions”) Meme Express (“swapping ideas”) Monday Mural (artwork – below) Pet Peeve Tuesday (“Do They Think We’re Stupid?”) Totally Optional Prompts (“conversations”)

“H” Is for Holiness

“ 'Consecrate yourselves, and be holy, because I am the Lord your God.’” (Leviticus 20:7, NIV)

 

Holier Than Now – A Poeting Pining for God’s Refining

 

Why do I ever box You in, 

As if to shirk Your discipline, 

Although Your oil of healing balm 

Might mend, restore and ever calm?

 

Conflicted in my deepest soul, 

I long to let You have control – 

To rise above all that I fear, 

Press ever closer and revere.

 

Instead, I swap ideas with fools 

Who resurrect all rotten rules. 

Perhaps they think me stupid still 

And hope to sway me from Your will.

 

In conversations, just we two, 

I fall again in love with You. 

Lord, make me evermore desire 

To be made holy by Your fire.

c2008 by Linda Ann Nickerson

6 comments:

  1. I love this picture. Love the colors too.

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  2. Linda, this is very well penned. I felt your need to reach out to God for strength and reassurance. I also felt that nothing could sway you from his word/s. Nice job. Have a nice night.

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  3. A beautiful poem. How easy it is to fall away from Him, to cease to listen. And never really for a good reason, either. I am reminded of my days in the seminary. Thank you for bringing that time back to me.

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  4. Wonderful, so moving!

    Thanks so much,
    Dx

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  5. Dear Linda,
    What an arresting picture and your poem is so lovely.
    Love the line: "In conversations, just we two/I fall in love again with You."
    Yes, those conversations - often - are what keep us both grounded and passionately in love with Him.
    You have a gift and you are a gift.
    Love,
    Jlo
    PS: Thanks for your lovely comment on my recent post.

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  6. Lovely photo, beautiful "H" submission.

    Thank you

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