January 31, 2008

• Bib & Apron poems and acronyms byJulie Evans

  Each of us takes notes in different ways during Bible studies. My friend Julie writes the most incredible poems and does acronyms. The other day she told me the acronyms she found for the Bib and Apron Bible study taught by Pastor Don, and shared a poem she wrote on the subject.

  B  – bondage
  I   – is
  B  – bondage

  A  – anointed
  P  – prepared
  R  – ready
  O  – obedient
  N  - necessary

  Isn’t that incredible!!!!! I want to wear an apron! The first poem, “What Are You Doing Here?” is based on Sunday’s sermon on the Bib and Apron, the other two she sent me and I wanted to share them with you.

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  What Are You Doing Here?

   

  That’s a really good question

  to ask yourself

  no matter

  where you are

  but now that you are

  here

  here in this church

  here in one of God’s houses

  what are you doing here?

   

  Did you come here to learn

  or did you come here to argue

  are you looking for the truth

  or are you trying to find good reason

  to not believe?

   

  Are you a seeker or a sorcerer

  do you want answers or do you want validation

  are you listening or are you just waiting to hear
  something that agrees with you or repulses you?

   

  In a place like this you will find every reason

  to believe that God is real and you will also find

  every reason not to believe, it just depends

  on what you are doing here. 

   

  People who come here really need to be here

  they aren’t perfect in their faith but most of them

  are very good people.

  If you stay around you’ll figure out who is blessed up and who is

  messed up and who serves and who whines

  it really is pretty fascinating.

   

  You’ll see who shakes and who prays the loudest

  you’ll figure out very quickly who you want to

  get to know better, you’ll find people who yell and

  people who boss you around, you’ll find people

  that think you know more than they do and always

  you will find people that think they know it all.

   

  But if you are here to find your own relationship

  to God

  and to figure out how to talk to Him and how to pray

  and what to expect and how to heal, you will find that too.

   

  Copyright 2008
  Julie Evans, Woodstock

   

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  I Suppose

   

  I suppose it is never easy

  to define one’s faith

  without sounding a bit

  like a maniac

  or a fanatic

  or a nut job

  I suppose the world

  will always judge believers

  by non believers standards

  we can never win

  in that estimation

  we can only be

  strengthened by their need

  to judge us as wrong

   

  Again, I suppose

  we are judging them

  as wrong

  seeing as how they

  don’t know what we know

  or believe what we believe

  but how do we share with them

  that we don’t believe in Jesus

  because we are deluded

  or stupid

  or desperate

  but that we believe because

  we have to

   

  I suppose that people

  wouldn’t get it

  because they don’t have it yet

  something happens, right?

  when you begin to talk

  to God and ask for forgiveness

  something happens on the inside

  when mercy comes running

   

  I suppose I can be patient

  and gorgeous and kind

  and stimulating and faith filled

  even in the midst of all this sorrow

  and searching.

   

  I suppose I can hang in there

  a little longer

  and a little more cheerfully

  I suppose I can get off my

  high horse and take a lower seat

  I suppose that if I listen a little

  more carefully I will understand the

  semantics of the language each of these

  wonderful souls is speaking

  I suppose I can emanate goodness and kindness

  and healing and hope

  I suppose I can look these people

  in the eyes and touch their hearts

  I suppose that

  just like myself

  they can get over their misconceptions

  and allow themselves to feel one

  with God

  I suppose everything is possible.

   

  Copyright 2008
  Julie Evans, Woodstock

   

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  On Second Thought

   

  Once it is all said and done and we go through

  the final act of letting go of someone we love

  it seems a good time, maybe even a God time

  to re-evaluate our own walk, our own life and our

  own impact upon the natural world and our

  ability to operate in the supernatural world

   

  I’d like more from my life than I am currently taking

  I’d like to have a lot more confidence and a lot less fear

  I’d like to emanate goodness and terrify badness

  I want to open my own prison doors so that I can

  open some prison doors for others or at least share

  my testimony about getting my own open

  I’d like to come against all these stupid limitations

  I have put upon myself and others and truly be as magnificent

  as I was made to be

   

  As far as time goes I know it goes quickly

  and too many good ideas go with it

  they are like vapor in the wind and that

  is my responsibility to recognize the need

  to keep track of these things, to manifest good ideas

  and to harvest the seeds from this Christian walk

   

  Its not that I have gotten lazy

  I think I have just worn myself down

  with some doubts and fears and it isn’t worth

  being right about the wrong things

  On second thought I would like to find my

  clicker, my remote and push play and begin at

  a new beginning right now right away

  and try not to waste anymore time.

   

   

  Julie Evans

  Lover of Life

  Seeker of Truth

  Woodstock, NY

  Copyright 2008

  Hope you enjoy these poems. I will pass along your responses to Julie.

  Have a blessed day,

  Heather

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