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Continue reading →: The Hymn Project #4: No Other GodChorus: There is no God besides You, LordYour judgments ever standWe are Your witnesses to praiseThe power of Your hand “Fear not,” You say, “for I have calledEach one of you by namePass through the waters in My handsAnd walk untouched by flame. “I am the Lord your God, who givesA…
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Continue reading →: The Hymn Project #2: Superior
At many times, Lord, in many waysYou told our fathers Your holy willBut now through Jesus, in these last days The Heir of all things speaks to us still Chorus: Your name is greaterYour hand is strongerYour Word is powerI worship You He is the radiance of Your gloryThe unique Image of…
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Continue reading →: The Hymn Project #1: Blessed
Chorus: Bless-ed to know, LordBless-ed to seeBless-ed to realize your grace to me Poor in spirit, LordNo worth withinYet here Your Kingdom comes, to save from sin Mourning in life, LordIn but not of Yet I am comforted in Your great love In meekness struggling Upon this earth By this inheritance You give new…
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Continue reading →: SmoketrailSomething told me the candle could not burn Much longer; maybe it was how it leanedAgainst the darkness, its waxy teardropRunning softly down to join the othersTo pool in sad surrender, coalescingIn a form less stately, less triumphant,But with the swirls and eddies of its warLike battle-scars, still proudly calling out: “Here lies the…
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Continue reading →: Love WasI thought Love wasA sideways feeling, my heart reaching outLike a flower for the pane of sunlightLike a diver lunging for that sapphire gulp of airLike my mother’s hand at the bearded stranger’s glanceLike the warm doorway back home when the twilight falls“No, no,” I told myself, “it is time to grow up – it…
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Continue reading →: Psalm 102Hear now my prayer, O LordBring near my cry to YouTurn not Your face away from meAnd answer when I call My days dissolve like smokeMy heart is struck to earthA lonely sparrow on the roof,My name becomes a curse The ashes are my breadMy bitter tears my drinkAn evening shadow are my daysAnd long…
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Continue reading →: The Sayings of the Cross. “A crown of thorns, really? Do they have any idea what they are doing? The sign of futility and the curse God placed on the ground because of sin? There, now, it fits perfectly, at least when the thorns have pierced Your skin so it sits better. The purple drops of…
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Continue reading →: OnSometimesThere is a terrible wearinessThat comes over my heart:To slow, to drop my sword, to know again the peace of the still placeBut He says: “Not here, not now. The battle rages on. Keep the faith” SometimesThere is a great sadnessThat sweeps over my soul:To crumple beneath it, to drink…
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Continue reading →: WinterGlimpsed sight of her in a white ermine coatSlashing through the forest, eyes glintingSavagely at me, as if caught in something.She shuddered and took flight, calling outWildly, ruthless, a primitive cry that echoed Among the silent pines. A chill like a bladeWent through me, to hear her: “Hear now,Ye bondsmen: My time has come. FrozenShall…
Essays, poetry, meditations, and book reviews by Jeremy Vogan.
Jeremy Vogan
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