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Lost Dreamer
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since 1999-06-20
Posts 2464
Somewhere near the Rainbow

0 posted 2000-02-05 01:00 PM


It's Your Choice

You walk aimlessly
in the night
carelessly tripping
over curbstones.
Delightfully Satan
reaches out his hand
bidding you to give him
this dance in the darkness.

You fall to his bait
willingly,
the dance
has only just begun
as each step
another broken connection
in a once beautifully
connected life of love.

God watches crying
tears for you
knowing you just made
a destructive choice
he waits for you to call upon him
to forgive you,
then he will come to step in
as your dance partner.

God dances graciously
no toes does he break,
no false images does he create.
It's your choice,
do you dance with Satan,
or do you let God step in graciously
to reconnect the broken pieces
that Satan stepped on?


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WhtDove
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245
Illinois
1 posted 2000-02-05 06:01 PM


What a powerful message! We all fall and dance with Satan once in a while. But hopefully we're smart enough to ask God to step in! Love it!  

Where ya been? Missed you around here!

 <*\\\><

When you can't make up your mind
Which way is right for you,
Stop and softly ask yourself,
What Would Jesus Do?

ellie LeJeune
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since 2000-01-10
Posts 4156
King of Prussia, PA USA
2 posted 2000-02-05 07:06 PM


How powerful is this image? I had a chill reading it. It just so happens that dancing with Jesus, is one of my favorite images.
Thanks for a great poem!

 02

sandgrain
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 3662
Sycamore, IL, USA
3 posted 2000-02-05 08:39 PM


So easily we can trip or slip discovering we're where we don't belong. What a picture you've painted of changing partners, like Jesus is waiting to cut in.
WhtDove
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245
Illinois
4 posted 2000-02-24 12:51 PM


I think this deserves to back up to the top! I found this back here all lonely.  May others read it and enjoy it like I did!  
mirjam
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since 1999-11-24
Posts 246
Auckland, New Zealand
5 posted 2000-02-24 06:19 PM


Yeah, were've ya been?  Reading this i realised how missed your work is!  What a powerful image, i like it!  Funny how he waits for us to give him the cue to cut in, so often we just expect him to but in! Dancing with Jesus is definately what i feel like doing today!  
Lost Dreamer
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since 1999-06-20
Posts 2464
Somewhere near the Rainbow
6 posted 2000-02-24 07:44 PM


Thank you all, I had a period of no brain activity, but as I am sure some of you have seen I'm back with a passion. I am about to post a new one in Spiritual right now, I'm not sure if it's right, I kind of went with what was being delivered if you know what I mean.
deleeme
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since 1999-10-09
Posts 1766
NEW ENGLAND, USA
7 posted 2000-02-24 08:07 PM


I think you packaged this one up uniquely and got your point across well.  Good poem, Lost Dreamer!

 "Our Creativity points to a Higher Creator--we couldn't have just happened, and for what ability we may possess--to God be the glory." -dlw-



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since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384
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8 posted 2000-02-25 07:21 PM


LostDreamer~
I would say that God has
filled your dance card.
Very nice and so easy to follow.
I personally liked it very much.
~*Marge*~


 ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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BSC
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since 2000-02-04
Posts 2919
New York, USA
9 posted 2000-02-25 08:14 PM


Wow,  what an amazing poem, it immediately draws pictures on the mind...and a powerful message, one we all need to be reminded of every now and then....
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