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Grace Centered

11.09.2022 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

So what am I looking at?
What consumes my day?
Why do hopes disappear?
where does Time go?

Take your questions
and Start in the midst of grace
Beautiful in faith
in the centre of love -
this is God’s desire for you,
God’s heartbeat
hidden in the ages
now Jesus revealed,
His powerful
sacrifice of love,
Christ’s victory,
Start here
born to be born again,
perfect in your Spirit,
Know you are someone-
no need to perform.

Abide, wait in the Holy Spirit
know God in His fullness
Yielded to His faultless will
become what you already are,
New desires will surface
emerging passions to please
your Saviour and King,
to live from Heaven
live from the power of God
and become what you behold
become what you see
become the very likeness
of God.
God’s life in this world.

Starting Thoughts:
As Christians are we living from the knowledge that we are now perfect, blameless, chosen, beautiful in God's eye This revelation of grace allows us to be be like God in our Sprit and now working out how our soul (minds) are changing from glory to glory, closer to the desires of God.
Poem Topic Tags: #abide, #desires, #grace, #hopes, #identity, #likeness, #love, #reallife, #resurrection, #yielded,
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Finding Space

07.08.2022 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Running dry
Empty and lost
burnt out
Catching irritation
and annoyances,
I stop
Let go
Tell the busy
the pain
to halt
they try not to cease,
But I let stuff go
and choose to
bring who I am
and stand
sit
lie down
run
walk
rest
write
dance
wait
in my secret place,
a place to find God
Practicing delight
in now moments
Speaking to my soul
telling it to trust
to enjoy
the One who truly loves,
Leaning into God’s heartbeat
Waiting
Holding
Stilling
connecting with God
slowing the Rhythms of life
into unforced Rhythms of grace
into heaven’s presence,
Living from eternity
Living free and lightly.

Starting Thoughts:
Are we prepared to live in a way that truly meets with our past so that we can walk through the pain and habits that stop us from finding rhythms of grace in the rhythms of life? Can we find our own place to meet with God are get to hear His voice?
Poem Topic Tags: #abide, #desires, #grace, #hopes, #identity, #likeness, #love, #reallife, #resurrection, #yielded,
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Grief

13.07.2022 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Why
do we run from
the pain
the betrayal
the deep loss,
disappointment,
Run to Hide
to shield minds from hurt
Escape to deal with it on
our own,
and in the silent screams
blame the good
blame the truth
Adopt broken friends
with drug answers
with party distractions
with distorted ideas
bury self in business
discover an addiction,
Yet somehow
the pain doubles
scraping our skull
scaring our soul darker
allowing disillusionment
to embed.

We can start
from the stolen now,
be real in the pain
scream out the overwhelming
Look to the mountains
Look in the eyes
of a child
see and smell depths
of wonder in a flower
Hear something different,
Embrace the despair
Face the pain
and look to God
to grace the pain,
And in a step
a brief clarity
a fingernail opening
space in the grim,
cry for something new
within the uncontrolled,
we can find
a comforter
a God who knows
depths of pain
Who has crossed
from Heaven to
human heartache
The love of a God
Who gave us
the pain of Jesus
Resurrection power in Jesus.

Allow God
to show you
His surrounding arms of joy
to embed your life
with love
To encircle you with
Eternal Hope…
And life will grow
around
and through Grief.

Starting Thoughts:
Following a series called 'Living Free' explored in our church services and small groups, I wrote this poem following the topic 'Grief'. It is hard to face grief, but maybe, in the midst or the pain and questions, we can.
Poem Topic Tags: addictions, barriers, betrayal, crying, escape, grief, hope, life, loss, love, pain, resurrection, stolen, truth, walls, wellbeing, wonder
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In Our Hearts

28.11.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

In a weary world
In the pressure
In the worries
In the moment
What emerges from our heart
What erupts?
What seeps?
Do we even see it?
Do we surprise ourselves…
Others?
The heat in our eyes
The hate in our voices
The sarcasm in our sentences
The destruction in our gossip
Have we left true life
by striving for entitlement?

Step by step
Climb the hill
Approach the cross
Kneel before
experience the resurrection love
be the cross
nail the right to be right
to the cross
and be love.

In essentials unity
In non-essentials Liberty
In all things love.

Credits: Moravian Proverb

Starting Thoughts:
Relationships change over time, sometimes the changes are fast and become toxic. Covid and the blowtorch on the political and social thinking that it bought surprised people as friendships they had changed markedly. How should we really be the church of God, the kingdom of God in these times of stress?
Poem Topic Tags: character, church, cross, equality, friendship, gossip, life, love, relationships, unity
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Seeing God

01.08.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Know you are
forgiven
You are
great in God’s eyes
Chosen
smiled upon
Made pure.

So
Walk into purity
flowing free
to see God
be with God
Know God more,
Listening.. quiet,
Loud roars and released
before God,
Understanding Forgiveness
letting go of
frustrations
distress
rubbish
burdens
Hurt
Fears,
Hear His voice
His call,

Feel His arms
around you,
Refining your
heart purity,
Your beating blood
pulsing with
Heaven on Earth
Heaven in Earth
And
See God
Be with God
Know God.

Come together
Experience praise
Experience hope
Joined in worship
soul deep,
Call worthy
Call priceless
Call honour
Call heart to heart
Call with one voice
Call with one voice together
“There is power in the
Name of Jesus,
Great is our God.”

Starting Thoughts:
Written in a worship session. We come with the presence of God in our lives to cooperate worship and collectively the Holy Spirit can open us to a closer experience with God.
Poem Topic Tags: #chosen, #forgiveness, #heaven, #identity, #name, #power, #praise, #purity, #released, #voice, #worthy, #worship
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Whisper Start

04.08.2019 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

It starts with a whisper
A call to the new
To hope
To peace
To courage
To forgiveness
To live love
Know love
Be love.

Starting Thoughts: Before the Beatles, Jesus Christ had a song about love being all we need. It is so true, so basic, so profound, so needed in our world today as many people put increasing distance between them and others.
Poem Topic Tags: #actions, #call, #courage, #disciples, #forgiveness, #honour, #hope, #love, #peace, #whisper
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Amazing

16.06.2019 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

You heal
and we forget,
You bring new life
and we wish we could die,
You clean
And we turn roll in the dirt
You promise
We promise
and we break them.

We broke you
Scorned you
Ignored you
Spat at you,
And you forgave
Deep and forever.

Prompt
How easily do we turn our backs on the wonders from God? How are we part of those that nailed Him to the cross?
Poem Tags
#amazed, #broken, #christian, #cross, #death, #forgiveness, #life, #love, #promises, #sin, #spokenword, #turning

Love

05.04.2018 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Faulting through us
an invisible crazed line
deep
connecting us all
yet spreading,
birthed in the choice
of amazing good
terrifying evil
and “I'm mostly nice”,
sin has cracked us
separating
our soul's choices
from the love of God.

What a power to choose,
to respond,
and the judgement of
the cards falls
where we have played them.

But before sin,
before the decision
of Satan
to rebel,
before the fall
of an apple into gravity
of pride,
before the games
the celebrity gratification,
the focus on me...

forgiveness and love
were the very nature
unified purity in God,
God’s entity
His passion
His personality.

And in time
on time
outside of time
God knew,
Knew what would be done
Knew what would be given
Knew the sacrifice
Knew the pain
Knew the power required
Knew the victory,
and it happened
Christ from His heart
God felt this moment
Christ broke His heart
God suffered this moment
Christ raised by His heart
God celebrated this moment.

the final signature
God signed his cross
his x
to the searing consequences
of our decisions and defeats
of the full weight of sin,
all this because God
first loved,
This love of Jesus
has triumphed
Release, remission
and we are
engulfed by the Father’s arms,
Enclosed protected
from principalities
from powers of evil.

Living through God
Living through His love
This God
the light of truth
in our lives.

This is how
we walk in love
put on love
love God
love others
love self

Perfectly reconciled
we love our God
through genuine loving
of others.

Prompt
Love- the reckless, forever love of God that flows from His very nature.

Impossible

05.04.2018 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Counting
way too impossible,
Sand on the beach
Peebles in the universe,
The problems in my day...
my work
the world,
The giants puff nothing
but rule my life,
Desert dry
I stumble,
purpose parched,
Loser lost,
sin scraped?
No deeper!
sin soaked!

"Oh God,"
I cry
for your forgiveness,
I need
Your impossible.
And then I discover
in the cross
in a Jesus relationship
in worship,
in tune with the Saviour;
streams that flow living water,
My spirit connects
to the holy,
And I dwell deep
loved infinitely, completely,
in the smile of God.

Prompt
Impossible- counting the grains of sand on a beach, fathoming the love of God, we can only be in awe.

Tags: forgiveness, beach, purpose, jesus, sin

The need to step away from routines and platitudes and bring God our real self.

Bubbles and Candyfloss

26.03.2018 Filed in: Poetry | |Christian |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

When life is routine
Same old-school,
Busy strangles time
to thin strips of meaning,
Connections of place and people
emaciated to shallow smiles;
Hiding realities and struggles,
and when I spend time
with my God
I bring
bubbles and candyfloss,
Lies and platitudes,
Small bits of me,
A house of hidden nothing
dressed as a fashion runway.

Can I step back?
Can I kneel and wait?
Can I stop to be me?
What do I fear?

Can I hear?
the call to confess
Bring you the real,
In your truth
agree with you
that I am wrong,
Bring you the sin,
that you desire to wrap
in flowing forgiveness arms,
To pure cleanse,
Infusing love that I cannot
be separated from.

The paradox!
In confession to you
In giving self to you
I am freed
soul and mind.

Free and forgiven
by my King and Saviour!

So Often

16.02.2014 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

So often
We see the past,
Nostalgic dreams,
Rose's thorns,
Tint memories' eyes
Colluding, enveloping thoughts,
Until timelines change
And living yesterday captures
Today.

Fake experiences
Strangle tomorrow's hope,
Patterned life abnormal normal,
Arteries clogged- hardened.

Changes?
Something new?
Challenged?

Starting Thoughts: Do our memories of the past enrich our present and future or slowly strangle them? How do we cope with the problems, sins and fears that keep dragging us back?
Poem Topic Tags: #change, #experiences, #future, #life, #memories, #nostalgia, #past, #seeker,
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Grace Centered

Finding Space

Grief

In Our Hearts

Seeing God

Whisper Start

Amazing

Love

Impossible

Bubbles and Candyfloss

So Often