When you’re tempted to look down,
Look up.
When you’re tempted to wear a frown,
Look up.
When your friends seem to be few,
When sunshine fails to come through,
When you don’t know what else to do,
Look up.
– eab, 5/20/07
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LOOK UP
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LOOK UP
Posted in uncategorized, tagged look up on May 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »
When you’re tempted to look down,
Look up.
When you’re tempted to wear a frown,
Look up.
When your friends seem to be few,
When sunshine fails to come through,
When you don’t know what else to do,
Look up.
– eab, 5/20/07
Did you GET one?
Posted in eabits, nature, uncategorized, worship, tagged Did you GET one?, go early, go expecting, going squirrel hunting, Going to church, keep awake, look up, squirrel hunting on September 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Going to church is like going squirrel hunting:
Go early,
Go expecting,
Keep awake, and
Look up.
– eab, 9/91
Temple Talk
Posted in poem, prayer, uncategorized, worship, tagged Associate Professor, beat upon his chest, Bible, calm in his heart, church, contrasted, dregs in his cup, eyes downward, Florida, friend, go to meeting, God, grace, heaven's smile, highest perch, Hobe Sound Bible College, honest spirit, humble, humble pie, justified his soul, look up, lowly ground, measures all things, mercy, petty piousness, poem, profound, simple, sinner, temple, temple talk, worship on November 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
He went into the temple
Where you’d think one could look up.
But his attitude was humble,
He saw “dregs” in his cup.
He asked God for mercy;
He beat upon his chest,
Called himself a sinner
(Not better than the rest).
He cast his eyes downward,
They sought the lowly ground.
But God, who measures all things:
The simple, the profound,
Liked his honest spirit,
Heard his call and cry,
Knew he meant his temple-talk,
Knew it more than “humble pie,”
And justified his soul;
He went back to his own place,
With a calm in his heart,
And heaven’s smile upon his face.
Friend, the next time you go to meeting,
The next time you’re in church
Avoid petty piousness,
Avoid the highest perch.
Look at God, worship Him,
And see yourself contrasted,
As this man of old did.
His grace has ever lasted. – eab, 5/2000
Written while Associate Professor Bible at Hobe Sound Bible College, Florida
Look Up!
Posted in philosophy, poem, uncategorized, tagged Canada, don't know, friends, frown, Kingston, look up, Ontario, Pilgrim Holiness Church, sunshine fails, tempted on November 16, 2008| Leave a Comment »
When you’re tempted to look down,
Look up.
When you’re tempted to wear a frown,
Look up.
When your friends seem to be few,
When sunshine fails to come through,
When you don’t know what else to do,
Look up. -eab, 5/20/07
Written when I pastored the Kingston Pilgrim Holiness Church, Ontario, Canada
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