Wednesday, May 15, 2024

He is no Fool



 He is No Fool


He is no fool
exchanging dark for light
who knows the rules
of choosing fight or flight


In a world of illusion
where false fears ignore what is real
the submission to delusions
superceded because we feel

Hold fast to what remains
what lasts may also bring pain
recast the mold to excellence
outlast what's just existence

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Remains of the Day


 
Remains of the Day


Be with me in that hour
    When the last breath nears
    Remove persisting fears
Enveloped in your power

An ending without props
    As heaven's light appears
    I realize what's dear
A love that never stops

Present yourself in peace
    This earthly chapter ending
    As time and space are rending
A love that does not cease

REMAINS

(c) Brian David Kelley 2024-01-7 Crischona Bettingen SCHWEIZ

Thursday, July 06, 2023

Conected to the heavens




A look from heaven

reaches down, lights the eyes

shines into the soul

transformational quanta

a word never voided

message received

sky to earth

eternal to temporal

dynamic thethering

a knot to the spirit


(c) 2023 Brian David Kelley 

Friday, January 20, 2023

Inescapable Grace


Where are you from where will you go?

When life makes you numb, when life keeps you low

The burden you bear is not just for you

There's someone who cares, when you have no clue


Inescapable grace

Irreplaceble mercy

and a passion that longs for your best

a repeating forgiveness

and a stubborn renewal

even when life's a mess




Night from Day - a song to send out Missionaries

A song written for the sending out of someone going into missions work. It tells how it is a bitterwseet thing with good work to come and the pain of leaving friends and family behind - and how God more than compensates!







Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Advent - An Arrival

Advent

We just finished the Christmas season, and I am thinking anew about the Advent season.

When God invaded a world of His own making - in the form of a helpless baby.

The world had rebelled more than once - continually actually. Many had tried to supplant God with anything else, even ultimately with themselves.

And yet Advent is a coming by God. Incarnation in the least imposing way imaginable - as a baby born to poor parents under a repressive Roman empire. Refugees chased out of their own land by a deranged local leader seeking to secure his power base.