Chris Gribble

Be yourself - Everyone else is taken (Oscar Wilde)

Sign Seven – Jesus Wept

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Wait, be here now,
The anxious cries of life
Will always seek comfort
Life doesn’t understand, Worrying
about what is expected,
Tomorrow, Today’s wisdom is,
do what is here now,
Befriend this moment,
Let love be fully present
Even when hope has despaired.

A promise about life,
Seems impossible, To me,
Death arrived, My
sadness evidence of great love,
Compassion sheds a tear,
With me,
Knowing, that life is coming,
Soon, even while I grieve,
Sobbing as only love can sob,
Even death and its final separation,
Has to obey love.

The act of faith, committed,
When the stone is rolled away,
Life emerges,
Death, is seeing a new reality,
Its vestiges want to cling,
Its grave clothes holding onto me,
The Voice and flesh’s words
Heard today,
I am listening and imagining,
My tears, flowing,
Knowing what is lost, Dying,
My tears for yesterday’s sadness,
Wants to stay again today,
Unless I rise up,
Joining with life, anew,
Believing in sadness, weeping,
loving, trusting, Taking off
my grave clothes,
Free to live again, Now.

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In the Psalms I have discovered firsthand some of the rawness and pain experienced by the Psalmist. This ebook is the first 40 Psalms that I have put in my own words. They are a reflection of what was written by the original writer and then brought to our world today. They reflect many of the themes that are common to discouraged, depressed, anxious, fearful people. At times some or all of these things have been true for me. I have used some of these experience and cried out with the Psalmist in my writing.

One definition of found poetry is, “it’s the literary version of a collage”. In finding these Psalms I have gathered together my emotions, feelings and pain and sought to “find” my understanding of what David was saying. It’s the worst possible translation methodology but it’s been a great personal re-discovery of God.

The 40 day journey is a chance to take some time out and listen to God’s voice. God’s praise will last for eternity, we have the great privilege to begin that praise now.

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