“So Send I You”
So send I you to labor unrewarded,
To serve unpaid, unloved, unsought, unknown,
To bear rebuke, to suffer scorn and scoffing,
So send I you to toil for me alone.
So send I you – to loneliness and longing,
With heart a-hungering for the loved and known;
Forsaking home and kindred, friend and dear one,
So send I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2008’
Edith Margaret Clarkson – birth, Jun 8, 1915
Posted in Canada, born today, lady writer, today in history, uncategorized, tagged 1915, 2008, born this date, Canada, die to dear desire, died 3/17/2008, Edith Margaret Clarkson, forsaking home and kindred, friend and dear one, heart a-hungering for the loved, labor long and love, leave your life’s ambitions, lose your life in mine, Melville, of twentieth century, Saskatchewan, self-will resign, So send I you, To bear rebuke, to loneliness and longing, To serve unpaid, to suffer scorn and scoffing, Toronto. been called greatest missionary hymn, unloved unsought unknown, where men revile you, wrote “So Send I You” on June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What Do You See?
Posted in eabits, philosophy, uncategorized, tagged 2008, Cosmology, eye of beholder, Indiana, Systematic Theology, unbelief, Union Bible College, Westfield on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unbelief is in the eye of the beholder. – eab, 10/16/2008
Notes for Cosmology section of Systematic Theology class, Union Bible College, Westfield, Indiana,
Horse Sense
Posted in nature, poem, science, uncategorized, tagged 2008, beating heart, convenience, gauge, gears, horse, horse and carriage, John Wesley, missed the age, not wheels, oaty wage, page, poem, read, ribcage, sage, stone, that age, the rage, Wesley on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve missed something, who missed the age,
When horse, or horse and carriage, were the rage.
Be he black or white or shades of beige
(This main convenience oe’r stone and sage)
He/she had a beating heart in their ribcage
(not merely wheels, gears, and occasional gauge)
True, driven or not they needed their oaty “wage”
And you arrived in town [...]
The Meek
Posted in opposing wrong, poem, uncategorized, tagged 2008, cruelities, IN, Indiana, inherit the earth, lied and killed, miles to rule, poem, poor souls, the meek, Westfield on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Men have lied and killed, been so cruel,
To have a few more miles to rule,
Thinking lands, were cruelties worth;
Poor souls. The meek shall inherit the earth! -eab, 2/13/08
Written at Westfield, Indiana
God or Gold
Posted in poem, worship, tagged 2008, attractio of sinners, contrary assertions, evil, God, gold, IN, Indiana, love of money, poem, serve God, serve gold, the arts, the sciences, Westfield on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You will serve God, or you will serve gold.
Make your contrary assertions ever so bold,
And claim the truth has not been told.
But the love of money is the root of all evil,
The love of gold leads directly to the devil.
Gold can be shaped in various known forms,
It can appear average, or far from the norms,
One [...]
No God?
Posted in Bible, opposing wrong, poem, uncategorized, tagged 2008, chance, clod, IN, Indiana, man, molecules, no God, poem, the fool, Westfield on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“What you see is what you get;
Man is not special – he’s just another clod.
Molecules met in ‘soup’ – by mere chance.
Planet’s revolving? Just happenstance.”
‘The fool hath said in his heart there’s no God”
– eab, 8/7/08 (Psa 14.1 & 53.1)
Written at Westfield, Indiana
Small Difference
Posted in nature, poem, tagged 2008, balloon, different, evening sky, fancy fabric, floating, gondola, hot air, hot air balloons, poem, society gent on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It must be quite a “lark,” gondola to embark,
And ride in the clear, evening sky.
They seem very free, different from you and me
Floating, looking down from on high.
The next time you see (where these happen to be)
These, like some society gent,
Think – the air is right, not in stormy fright.
Time was chosen for this event.
A [...]
Church
Posted in converted to Christ, poem, worship, tagged 2008, church, IN, Indiana, new birth, poem, redeemed hearts, tall steeple, tall walls, Westfield, worship on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A certain kind of people,
Meeting under a tall steeple,
Imagine that that’s the church.
Tall walls do not a church make.
New birth is more than a handshake;
Which these find out when in a lurch.
The church is made of redeemed hearts,
And though they meet in various parts,
Under clear sky, under a huge tree;
Worship, that’s why we gather,
Even in [...]
Birthday Wishes – Tom Sproles
Posted in born today, poem, uncategorized, tagged 1976, 2008, Bryan, Canada, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Beverly Shea, Ike, Kansas, Kingston, married decades, ministering, onions, Ontario, poem, Shea, Sproles, Tennessee, wife, Winchester on October 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
T Today a young man turns sixty years;
H Half that time we’ve known him, it appears.
O Operating a small printing press,
M Ministering to rich, and those less,
A “Ain’t going preacher,” was said by some
S Sleepy souls, after the van had come.
L Loving man to Paula, his good wife.
S Stably married decades of [...]
