TO TURN FROM GOD

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TO TURN FROM GOD

 

Finding a path without a light.

Having No purpose to Be at all.

A contender, losing this spiritual fight.

Having No purpose to Be at all.

 

Long days spent without HIM.

Who is able to prevent me from this terrible Fall?

A contender, losing this spiritual fight.

Having No purpose to Be at all.

 

Gave up on the journey to find my own way,

Finding a path within the consuming darkness.

Preoccupied now, will seek God another day.

Can’t see No light! For this road is darkness.

 

Finding a path without a light.

Having No purpose to Be at all.

A contender, losing this spiritual fight.

 

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WordSlinger commented on TO TURN FROM GOD

07-17-2010

Do you want to know what I think when this happens, that he follows us, and picks us up here and there, always caring you know it, ty WS

orsonav

07/17/2010

I agree that God picks you up where you walk away.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

orsonav’s Poems (52)

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FROM THE CHILDREN HAVING NO FATHER 3
FROM A PLACE OF DARKNESS AND DESPAIR 5
THE LACK OF LOVE IN LIFE 7
TO WRITE POEMS FROM THE PULPIT: THE ORSON VALLEY SERMON 10
HEAR MY PRAYER 9
THE UNOPENED BIBLE 11
THE SMILE ON THAT USHER 3
THOSE IN THE IMAGE OF ME 6
TO TURN FROM GOD 1
THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF ME 2
JUSTIFICATION OF MAN 2
WITHOUT COMMUNION 2
TO SOW GOOD SEED 2
TESTIMONIES OF THE REDEEMED 2
HOW EXCELLENT IS THY NAME 4
BLESSED ARE THE PEOPLE 2
THE HEART OF HIM THAT HAS UNDERSTANDING 1
TEACH ME THY WAY 3
JUNE 25TH 2009 THE DAY MICHAEL JACKSON AND THE MOON WALK DIED 3
MY EYES HAVE SEEN 0
I CRIED UNTO GOD 2
THE COVENANT OF A FEW 1
THE APPLIED SCIENCE OF CHRISTIANITY 2
SONG OF A BROKEN CHOIR 2
BETWEEN MAN AND WIFE 3
OUT OF THE BIBLE BELT 2
ONE FAITHFUL DEACON 2
MODERN DAY MOUTHS OF BABES 4
IF GRANNY COULDN'T PRAY 8
FOLLOWING MOMMA TO CHURCH 5
EVEN GOD RECYCLES 4
BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUR BROTHER? 4
ANXIOUS TO BE GOD 7
THE LANGUAGE OF GOD 5
FAITH WITHOUT WORKS 7
THE FALLING DOWN OF COMPASSION 4
AND JESUS CRACKED THE SKY 8
MIRACLE IN ROOM 273 4
MY BELOVED CHURCH HOME 2
FULLY SUBMERGED? 3
THE WORKING CHRISTIAN 2
MORE THAN SUNDAY DINNER 7
THE DOORS OF THE CHURCH ARE NOW OPEN 2
LIVE FROM THE PULPIT 4
THE DEDICATED PASTOR'S WIFE 5
ON MY PEW SAT HOPE 7
THE PREACHER'S CADILLAC 7
Letter To The Unchurched 8
A NEW DRUM 5
Idle Man Searching 9
With Christian Love 11
God's Spirit In Me 13