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3 Gifts

25.12.2018 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Signposts from the East
Travellers entwined in history
Bearing gifts
Following stars
Part of destiny
And when they
approached the stable cave
Explained,
we are here from
Another country -
We know someone special
has been born within,
Joseph smiled a welcome
aware again with Mary
That something different,
amazing was going
to keep happening
with this baby Jesus;
Dreams with messages
Angels appearing
Shepherds who raised
passover lambs arriving,
And three wise men - why not?
They entered
awe, reverence, anticipation,
opening gifts;

Gold for the king
establishing God's kingdom
personal and hands on
justice, joy, peace,
frankincense the scent
of the High Priest
freeing the way,
tearing open the curtain
to the Holy of holies,
myrrh the painful gift
a drink, a fragrance
The myrrh drugged drink
offered on the skull
of Golgotha to a sacrificed Jesus,
refused by Christ's patched lips
The same myrrh spiced linen wraps
binding his body in an end of life cave,
Myrrh from a plant of thorns.

Three gifts pointing
The way to Jesus
So you can
kiss the baby
The Great I Am,
know the face of God,
know meaning in
God with us,
The greatest Christmas gift
unwrapping change for the world.

Prompt
3 Gifts pointing from the past to future of a baby that would revolutionise life on Planet Earth.
Poem Tags
#baby, #christian, #christmas, #gifts, #jesus, #passover, #poem, #poetry, #spokenword, #wisemen , #video, #media

3 Gifts Spoken Word Video Poem Christmas

Tags: christmas, jesus, reallife, baby, gifts

Innocence

16.12.2018 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

We know what
we are like...
living the life we
don't want to live,
Shadows of evil thoughts
tired spaces
hopeless odds
gambling with our souls.

Slicing into history
and future
The Christmas Easter
peace child speaks,
"You are
Destined for innocence
Chosen to be
untainted, unstained,
justified
embraced
in my great love."

Yes,
seen through Christ's
righteousness,
Lamb of God
slain
disconnected
risen,
sin's curse broken
Death's power shattered,
The great exchange
innocence died
for the new
creation of the innocents,
freeing you
from your thoughts
from your old nature
from the overwhelming,
finding forever
completion in Jesus,
receiving the precious
free gift,
And you are
destined to live
in His life
in His established purity
in His endless love,
eternity depths for your innermost.

Transformed, total, real, spirit freedom.

Starting Thoughts: How does God see us? Pure, innocent, worth His Christmas, Easter precious gift. We can be transformed as we understand and are established in God's eternal love.
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Tags: easter, christmas, gift, freedom, love

The Remanent

17.10.2018 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Eyes darkened
Blinded,
The chosen people
so desire the gift,
striving for God
but can't see
the first Christmas tree
and its gift waiting, calling.
Oh Israel
God contends for you,

The church,
House of the Lord,
honours you,
God's first love,
The first olive tree
of God's history.

Look and see
begun from you
the new olive branch
and we all
who have lost the glory
of God,
Look to the root
The Messiah
The Christmas cross,
birthed in you
yet forever ancient.
We celebrate you Israel,
no longer do you
need to strive.
Just as we all
Who have lost the glory
Of God,
Look to the root
The Messiah legacy
The Christmas cross.

Anointed people
Believe in the One
Faith in the One
Accept the One
Give self to the One
Celebrate in the One
Life for the dead
Trust in Jesus
Yeshua
your Living God.

Poem Tags
#christian, #christmas #faith, #god, #israel, #jerusalum, #olive, #root, #poetry, #spoken-word
Prompt
The power that sustains and expands our universe.

EFTPOS Receipt

12.08.2018 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Lazily curling
EFTPOS white ribbon
Receipt
Approved

For the cheap price
of "caution contents hot coffee"
you can be sealed
with authorisation.

Cheap validation
Clings to your personality
Climbing your shoulders
Cesspool whispering
in your willing ears.
Like, love, share, comment
swirling paper thin motivations,
skinny relationships
spirit wasting entropy,
praise from honeyed lips
echoing the cheap
price of life.

One word
is all it takes,
changing external
endorsement
to internal truth identity…

Jesus!

Poem Tags
#cheap, #christian, #comments, #gossip, #identity, #money, #poems, #poetry, #power, #relationships, #socialmedia, #spokenword
Prompt
Where does our identity come from? Who really sees us? Where do we seek approval from and how does it drive how we react with others?

Approval and Identity Spoken Word Poem reflecting on life

Tags: love, christmas, baby, jesus, god

Christmas Contrasts

10.04.2018 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Pupils Written by: W Grieve

Snow falls
Cold creeping
Enveloping coats, boots, woolly hats
Inside gathering Christmas
Shut darkened windows
Hot turkey, ham feasts
Heart warming eggnog
Decorated evergreen, colourful gifts
Glitter tinsel, flashing bulbs
Starry winter crisp nights
Family, close friends
Celebrate Northern Christmas

Sunshine beach balls
Heat seared beaches
Sunscreen Skin, jandals, board shorts
Outside expanding Christmas
Open light soaked doors
BBQ sizzles, chilled salad
Throat quenching cold water
Decorated evergreen, colourful gifts
Glitter tinsel, flashing bulbs
Starry summer balmy nights
Family, close friends
Celebrate Southern Christmas

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Change @ Christmas

20.11.2016 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Static,
Time revolved
It seemed same old
A world less personal,
War and pain,
A planet revolution
Needed.

Jesus came
God came,
Provoking change,
Changed the shepherds
Changed Joseph and Mary,
Born to change you
Lived to show you,
Died to love you
Lifting you from
existence in the grave
Offering hope,
in a broken world.

Poem Tags
#baby, #child, #christian, #christmas, #cross, #hope, #jesus, #love, #poems, #poetry, #reallife, #santa, #seeker, #spokenword, #videos, #xmas
Prompt
Who gets changed by the Christmas story?

Christmas can change us poetry, video, spoken word

Tags: christmas, gifts, hope, jesus, love

Anticipation

10.01.2016 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Christmas
Anticipation,
Beginning of hope...
Drowned in the voices,
ad confused noise
Sarcasm screams
and steals,
Killing the thinking
curious
questions lost.

No different today
to the first time,
Cold power feeling threatened,
iron fist desperately speaking
commands of death,
Babies killed,
A fearful human king
trying to kill the true king.

Doubters emerged,
frozen religious thinking
denying the king
His claims on their life,
Liars advertising
Their version of truth 101.

Jesus,
Human frailty embraced
as a baby,
He stands
perfect in time
Alive after death,
He saves
Hopeless and hopeful
Anyone who comes.

Maybe that's why
Jesus said, "Come as a child."
Before those mind manipulations,
before games acted
before playmaking,
Just come as you are,
who you are
No matter where
you are from,
Where you sit.

The birth of hope
Alive after sacrifice
Love extreme
loves you
embraces you
knows you
sees you.

Poem Tags
#baby, #child, #christian, #christmas, #cross, #hope, #jesus, #love, #poems, #poetry, #reallife, #santa, #seeker, #spokenword, #videos, #xmas
Prompt
Christmas combines death of the innocents with a baby in a manger. How will you complete your Christmas?

Anticipation of Christmas Poetry Spoken Word Video

Tags: christmas, gifts, hope, jesus, love

The Point

20.12.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

What was the point?
Cute lambs and shepherds
twinkling stars,
Presents and smiles,
straw and happy baby,
Smiling parents.
Underneath...
A king desperate for power
Fear of a baby
death of innocents
Fleeing parents,
A Christmas beginning.

Today,
Families gathering
presents exchanged
Hugs and togetherness
Celebration,
Underneath...
Crowded rushed malls
Sweating Santa,
Myriad sales
Glitter commercials,
Stress and loneliness
Clarity of pain and anger,
Countries war-torn
Worn and lost.

Underneath...
Anchored in and beyond time
God's love...
Sent in risk
Sent to bring back,
Sent to speak,
To live full; laugh, struggle,
To go carrying the cross
Carrying our pain, sin, death
For the joy
set before him,
Darkness and sameness
Triumph of evil.

Underneath... The Point

Resurrection power
Death and sin defeated,
Love conquered
Final victory,
Reborn again
Lives eternally changed.

Christmas complete.

Poem Tags
#baby, #child, #christian, #christmas, #cross, #hope, #jesus, #love, #poems, #poetry, #reallife, #santa, #seeker, #spokenword, #videos, #xmas
Prompt
Christmas combines death of the innocents with a baby in a manger. Where are you in the mix of families, xmas, loneliness, love?

Chrisitna Poetry Spoken Word Videos Christmas

Tags: christmas, gifts, hope, jesus, love

God to Earth

14.12.2013 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Was the plan
to be incognito?
Only a few to know
of the baby
Heaven's anticipated arrival,
Born in a manger
Earth of earth smells.

But maybe the angels
Communicating at the speed of light
knowing the power
felt God's word at work,
"Shall we see what's going on?"
and followed the messenger angel,
from heaven's dimension.

And above night shrouded hills
they heard the words
spoken to amazed shepherds
"And you will find a baby.."
The Angel xfactors
couldn't contain worship
Bursting into human sight,
Unsuppressed singing surged
cosmic deep
sheer Joy ,
"Glory to God, peace on Earth"

Did God laugh and shake His head,
Those angels
couldn't keep anything quiet,
So much for the
laid-back birth plan,
No hushed start for God's
human shaped love.

God smiled,
“Shh… angels, don’t
wake the baby!”
The winged choir returned
sheepish.

Starting Thoughts: It hit me in a service - I wonder how the angels got to to be there and sing when they appeared to the shepherds? Do angels have agency apart from God ?- I think yes!

Tags: christmas, jesus, baby, shepherds, birth

Christmas

02.12.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Santa in last years white beard smells
Coloured lights hang
Twinkles and patterns of
Community art,
Mall packed shopping
Endless Snoopy melodies,
Behind the retail assistant smiles
voids and hopes,
A time of year
emotions under the microscope,
Extremes magnified,
Hope and loss
gathered friends, holes of loneliness
Life and death
Stuffed stretched stomach,
credit card strangle.

And we live this commercial crazy time,
In the trapped moments,
Yet hoping for freedom fun released,

We are
Part of eternities entwined story
A birth, a baby, an adult, a forever love,
a God's plan.

Poem Tags
#baby, #child, #christian, #christmas, #cross, #hope, #jesus, #love, #poems, #poetry, #reallife, #santa, #seeker, #spokenword, #videos, #xmas
Prompt
Christmas intertwines pain, hope and a baby.

Tags: christmas, xmas, hope, jesus, love

Perfectly Planned

04.11.2010 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Perfectly planned
In time's span,
The arrival.

A baby
To fulfill prophecy,
A light -
Star signs and creator's spark
A man
entwined with Universe power

In a time where Jewish
Religion was official,
A murder -
Killed and resurrected
A power alive -
When roads had been built
By a Roman kingdom
To carry the revolutionary news
Of Kingdom life.

Not of might
Of love,
Not of weapon
Of forgiveness,
Not of anger
Of patience,
Not of death
Of everlasting life.

Time planned
Eternal breath
All hopes arrival.

Poem Tags
#christian, #christmas, #jesus, #poem, #poetry, #prophecy, #spokenword
Prompt
How was the birth of Jesus at Christmas perfectly planned in the human timeline?

Perfectly Planned Christmas Video Spoken Word Poem

Tags: love, christmas, baby, jesus, god

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3 Gifts

Innocence

The Remanent

EFTPOS Receipt

Christmas Contrasts

Change @ Christmas

Anticipation

The Point

God to Earth

Christmas

Perfectly Planned