I stand amazed,
A sinner saved,
By grace alone,
His blood atoned,
For all my sin,
I enter in,
Sing a new song,
In Him belong.
Copyright 2021. L.L. Shelton.
Category Archives: Poetry
Atonement
With arrogant man,
Enveloped in pride,
In grace you contend,
In love you abide.
Let man dwell in you,
Escape from his lies,
Be near you always,
Find rest at your side.
Copyright 2021. L. L. Shelton.
To Know
GOD of Creation
GOD of the ages
GOD of the multi-verse
GOD of salvation
GOD of the heavens
GOD of the earth
GOD of string theory
GOD of new birth
GOD of all glory
Worthy of praise
GOD of all wonder
Ancient of Days
Inhaling, exhaling
GOD of all breath
Life is in You
Outside of all death
Expand and contract
Leaving no doubt
We breathe by design
Air in and air out.
Copyright 2021. L.L. Shelton.
Your Word Is
It is Your Word
I comment not,
Thoughts my own
Must come to rot.
For all It stands
And stand it must,
Incarnate Truth;
In You, we trust.
By Light most pure
In Love we see,
Gilding the Lily
Can not be.
(With a nod to Jim Orrick)
Copyright 2021. L. L. Shelton.
Wedded Bliss
Though one may issue
A directive,
We see it’s all in
The perspective.
Oh Great Designer,
Our praise is due!
As in the taming
Of the shrew,
Truth be told,
Who tamed who?
Copyright 2021. L.L. Shelton.
Winter Birds
Darkest winter,
Ice with snow,
Coldest day
I have known.
Birds a-flutter,
Through frosty pane,
Flying to
Then fro again.
By my hearth,
Most cozy be,
I’d bring them all
Inside with me!
Copyright 2021. L.L. Shelton.
Created Saints
Intricacies of heaven
Bound to dirt of earth,
Aching, straining,
Longing, begging,
Waiting for new birth;
Praying, learning,
Leaning, changing,
Into His Living Word;
With Love abounding,
Joy astounding,
Hoping Him to serve.
Copyright 2021. L.L. Shelton.
Motherhood
How grateful I am,
How happy to know,
How You trusted me,
How valued the soul!
How precious the moments,
How quickly they passed,
How high was the honor,
How sweet was the task!
How humbly I hope,
How sweet is the rest,
How often and always,
I’m found at your breast.
Copyright 2021. L.L. Shelton.
Some Grow Small
How is it that you read
Lady Chatterly’s Lover,
And come away simply aroused by a passionate affair?
That you are acquainted with
The Diary of Anne Frank,
And note only the introspections of a young girl becoming familiar with her body?
That you have knowledge of
Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret,
And are moved merely by the description of menses?
That you read
Huckleberry Finn,
And place your focus on one foul word?
That you study Orwell and are stunned only by illustrations of suffering?
Perhaps you, as Alice, drank a vile potion?
Copyright 2020. L.L. Shelton.
A Reckoning
Precariously perched,
Bright new wings unfurled,
Her wretched screaming slowed,
Still at her past Is hurled;
And round the fragile stem of life
Her feeble feet are curled,
“I cannot save you from yourself,
I recognize the plea;
For many years I heard the cry
Yet I could not save me.
Now here I stand with heart in hand,
The child is finally free.”
Light blinds her temporarily,
She’s startled by the noise;
Walking slowly to the edge
Though in her pain is poised,
To take to flight across the sky,
Embracing future joys.
Copyright 2020. L.L. Shelton.