Category: Poems

As an open letter in Your sight

So vulnerable and naked

In awesome fear of Your might

So holy and so sacred

A broken heart so bruised and fragile

From betrayal in the past

It requires Your tender touch

So any bitterness won’t last

Reconstruct my moral fibres

So this heart begins to love

And forgive all ignorance

Pour Your mercy from above

As my heartbeat is awakened

With a blessed refreshing start

I will love with much compassion

With a kindness set apart.

(C) P.B. 2004

“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”  Psalm 51:10

My dearest and beloved friend

How wonderful Your ways;

How sweet and kind Your fellowship

Which fulfils my living days.

The manner of Your touch divine

It radiates my soul;

Your warm and gentle smile

My life’s in Your control.

A sincere heart is Yours so rare

Your goodness is a gem;

We place our entire faith in You

As we touch Your garment’s hem.

As You wipe all our impurities

God’s handiwork is done;

You’re our best and fairest friend

You’re Jesus, God’s own Son.

(C) P.B. 2004

“No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.”  John 15:15

A face so full of sorrow

As it’s soaked with many tears;

A soul without much hope

Merely existing throughout the years.

Not knowing love and comfort

Or having seen his father’s face;

Not feeling his deep love

Or his mother’s warm embrace.

If we never trust in God

We are orphans through and through;

As He’s our Father in heaven

Who created me and you.

As we ask for His forgiveness

And be reconciled to Him;

His heart gently adopts us

As we have eternal life within.

(C) P.B. 2005

“…for He dwells with you and will be in you.  I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.” John 14:17-18

Cultivate my love O’ Lord

With Thy outstretched hand;

Reveal the heart of heaven

As You come to heal this land.

Forgive all my trespasses

As I surrender all my heart;

The washing from Your word

Will promote a brand new start.

As I bow a humble knee

I feel Your sovereign grace;

And the sweet smell of Your fragrance

Plants a smile on my face.

(C) P.B. 2005

“And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” Matthew 6:12

“Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised.”  Psalm 48:1

Lord, do a mighty work in me

As I fulfil my given role…

Claim everything that’s Yours

All the things that satan stole.

Magnify my love for You

And renovate  my mind;

Clear the cobwebs from my heart

As I leave the past behind.

Fix my vision on Your goal

As many souls are saved;

Engrave compassion in my soul

For the path which You have paved.

As Your perpetual understanding

And wisdom is gradually revealed;

Your ways are wonderful

As You become my sun and shield.

(C) P.B. 2005

“Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.”  2 Corinthians 5:18

Take a precious tender moment

And reflect upon our life…

Do we think about eternity

And have we found grace in God’s sight?

Is our daily agenda full

As we continue in our ways?

Or is our life surrendered

For God’s glory and His praise?

Are we alone in the evening

As we fall asleep each night?

Or do we close our eyes with ease

As Jesus makes our burdens light?

As life’s deep and true meaning

Makes us stop to take reflection…

We’ll discover our Lord’s grace

With His mercy and affection.

As we cry for precious truth

And the tide of life slows down,

God will open His deep treasure

And turn our life around.

(C) P.B. 2005

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”  Matthew 11:28

Sticks and stones may break the bones

But words will forever hurt,

Because the venom flowing from the lips

The soul much pain will birth.

The torture that is physical

The flesh may cry all day,

But the poison pointed to our heart

Makes dead our every way.

Bruises they may come and go

And they can be forgotten,

But the curse that pours like lava

Makes the insides to be rotten.

Words do forever hurt us

And stay embedded in our soul,

If there’s no room for forgiveness

In our heart to make us whole.

(C) P.B. 2005

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue.”  Proverbs 18:21

Do we often wonder

What life is all about?

Does our heart have hope

Or is our mind so full of doubt?

Do we often dream of heaven

Hoping to make it there one day?

Or will we choose to dwell in hell

As we live a selfish way?

Is our heart so full of troubles

With a mind that cannot cope?

Or is the touch of God so close

Which gives us lots of hope?

We all have a fallen nature

Due to Adam and Eve’s sin,

But our God gave us His Son

To save our soul within.

As we let our Savior in

To dwell inside our heart,

We pray to Jesus daily

As we’re truly set apart.

He’ll give us lots of peace

So we reject our worldly ways,

And live a righteous life

To see HIs eternal days.

(C) P.B. 2005

“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”  Acts 4:12

O’ Lord You are my daddy

The best Father You could be…

A sweet most tender figure

Who sent Jesus just for me.

I love You very much

As I’m reconciled to You;

I pray that all my days

Bring You all the glory too.

I thank You dear Lord

As You fill my heart with love;

I’m your everlasting child

And one day we’ll meet above.

(C) P.B. 2004

“For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out ‘Abba, Father.”’  Romans 8:15

Your power and Your awesome might

Can never be compared;

It is unique and wonderful as well

And Your love is never spared.

As the roaring thunder rolls

Your finger throws the bolts;

You’ve created many wondrous things

With no seam or any fault.

Your hand suspends the universe

Your finger holds the sun;

Your heartbeat loves Your people

Has compassion on everyone.

We thank you dear God

For creating us with love;

As we’re reconciled to You

With much power from above.

(C) P.B. 2004

“The voice of the Lord is powerful; The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.”  Psalm 29:4