Season 4, Episode 10, The Rhymes

40, 4-10, SHOW  NOTES & COPYRIGHTS, REVISED 1/17/2022(Scheduled 1/21/2022)Today is Episode 10 of Season 4, our 40th podcast on Living In God’s Rhyme. Today we are going to read and discuss God’s rhymes from all 3 books.I’ve said before there is a poem in everything, good or bad.  For me there is a rhyme in everything with God.THE RHYME OF GOD, THE RHYME OF ME ( Living In God’s Rhyme, pg. 34) There may be no rhymesAs in other times.But it is not that the LordHas struck a lost chord.(if he did it would be sungas every church bell was rung)His rhyme is his word,The scriptures we readThrough which he plants the seed,With hope that we have heard. It is through his graceThat we see his faceIn those we meetAnd those we greet. If we believe,In us lives his rhymeForever in time.He will not deceive. Then I decided to writeAbout something right,But got it wrongBecause it was me,Me, just me, alone. I can wander in this world,Oblivious to all that is good.I can try by myselfTo lift myself up,Up above the Hustle withoutThe bustle,And fail Because the bustleOf this worldIs the hustleThat tells meAll I seeIs all I need. Then I awake from what I hope was a dream,Hoping that all is not what it seemed.I look in the mirror and seeThe reflection of what I used to be. What I used to be beforeMy Savior redeemed me,Made me righteous in his eyes,The eyes of his Father in Heaven above.Every moment of every day I felt his love.A love for me and those who surroundMy life, who have oft times run aground. I pray that what I dreamIs never real.I pray that what may seemSomewhat surrealIs nothing more than a bad dreamFrom a bad movie scene. As I live I pray that temptationI turn over to my SaviorWho has conquered my sinNo matter where I’ve been. When I turn my backI lose my sightOf what is wrongAnd who is right. May I focus my eyes,The eyes of my soul,So that to my sin I die.He has mended the hole. Reflection on The Rhyme of God, the Rhyme of MeSomeone once asked me at a book signing where the name God’s Rhyme came from for the first book. From Him I said, He is the Rhyme. Later I realized that I also had a poem in the book with that title. What a memory!Discussion:The next one, from God’s Rhyme, is the first time God and rhyme are both in the title of a poem.  (We’ve read this one on an earlier podcast.)GOD’S RHYME  (last stanza) (God’s Rhyme, pg. 86) I’ve seen Godhow odd He seemsin faces I meetas life races byI pick up my feetfrom the burning street& see a smilefrom a simple childpicking a wild floweran hour is not measured by minutesfor a while is time& the simple oddity in lifeIs God’s rhymeDiscussion:HIS BLESSINGS RHYME  (God’s Rhyme, pg. 88) My hopes, my needs, the cure for my ills  All in God’s...