Ronovan Writes – Page 4 – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Right—Ovi Poetry Challenge

They left what’s wrong to darkened night
to rise and follow living light.
The way was narrow, true, but right.
That’s how they made it home.

Forsaking gods of mountains, trees,
of roiling, windy, mindless seas,
they listened through the silent breeze
and served the living LORD.

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Ronovan Hester offers the word “right” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted at Poet’s Corner.

Joshua 24:15 (KJV)
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Choice—Ovi Poetry Challenge

While fretting over loveless things
instead of what the Spirit brings,
I stifled joy. The church bell rings.
There’s sadness in the wind.

His way is true. His burden light.
He found me through the dark of night.
I once was bound to wrong, not right,
but that was long ago.

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Ronovan Hester offers “choice” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge.

Play—Ovi Poetry Challenge

The point of life is not to play
and while away the time of day.
We hear His voice and then obey.
We follow where He leads.

And if that is the most we do
no other path would get us through.
Rejoice and praise! Our hearts renew
and that is all that matters.

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Ronovan Hester offers the word “play” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Good—Ovi Poetry Challenge

I wouldn’t say that I was good.
I rarely do the things I should.
I barely do the things I would
before the day is done.

Without some Help, who can get by?
The good one does makes others cry.
Rain down on me! My well is dry—
Ah! Now it’s gushing forth.

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Ronovan Hester offers the prompt word “good” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted at Poets Corner.

Equal—Ovi Poetry Challenge

The Father’s God and Jesus, too.
The Holy Spirit filling you
who overflows and makes you new—
He’s also the same God.

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Ronovan Hester’s Ovi Poetry Challenge offers the word “equal” as inspiration. Posted also on Poet’s Corner.

The bottom line about the Trinity is that there’s a difference between absolute identity used in mathematics to allow for substituting terms (such as 1+1 which can be substituted with 2 only because 1+1 = 2 under all circumstances) and relative identity that works best in the real world (such as identifying the morning star with the evening star which are both equal or identical to Venus even though it doesn’t make sense to call Venus the evening star when you see it in the morning). Think of relative identity should you ever look at the Trinity as a logical puzzle. The Trinity also makes sense out of the philosophical problem of the One and the Many. If you don’t think the Trinity is in the Bible, read Matthew 3:16-17. All three Persons of the Trinity are at the baptism of Jesus by John. The fathers of the church taught the Trinity long before the Council of Nicaea.

Race—Ovi Poetry Challenge

I lost myself with some disgrace.
The mirror cringed to see my face.
I didn’t think it was a race
until I knew it was.

But that was then and now is now.
With soil turned beneath the plow
the seed was planted—God knows how—
and everything was changed.

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Ronovan Hester’s Ovi Poetry Challenge this week offers the word “race” as inspiration. Posted also at Poet’s Corner.

Independence

Depending only on the Lord
I took His word, a two-edged sword,
but left the demon’s sparkling hoard
I used to wish was mine.

That change of life I won’t forget:
within reborn without regret,
with joy the well, with river wet
which flows with living water.

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For Ronovan Hester’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Posted on Poet’s Corner.

Roar – Décima

The watchers on the wall will sound
the trumpets warning should they see
the enemy. Persistently
we’ll hold the line. To Him we’re bound.
It’s up to us to stand our ground.
Survival and salvation: May
we thank the Lord for every day
He gives to let our voices roar,
our praises to the heavens soar.
We hear His voice. We rise, obey.

Ronovan Hester offers the rhyme word “roar” to be used in a D-line of a décima having rhyme pattern ABBAACCDDC for this week’s challenge. Eugenia offers “survival” as her prompt this week.

Hook – Décima

With freeze and thaw of wintry woes
some fear the still-life’s gonna die.
Why spin the news so fast that I
can see the lies beneath fresh snows?

There is the Lamb that heaven shows,
the One who can unseal the book.
The losing side will try to hook
the world with sorrows. Persevere.
The sea of glass and fire comes here
with victory and praising. Look!

Ronovan Hester offers the rhyme word “hook” to be used in a C-line of a décima having rhyme pattern ABBAACCDDC for this week’s challenge. Eugenia offers the theme “still-life” as her prompt this week. A commentary on Revelation by Michael Rood was on my mind especially verse 15:2 which he kept referring to.

Grateful for Rest – Décima

Constricting envy cannot rest.
It meditates throughout the night,
turns dark the dawn of morning light.
Our lungs can’t breathe. We’re python pressed.

We’d much prefer to be caressed
without this dust. We don’t need more
of what they’ve got. We’re looking for
a way to make the python go,
stop scheming, squeezing, wanting so.
The Spirit breathes. We see the door.

Ronovan Hester offers the rhyme word “rest” to be used in a A-line of a décima having rhyme pattern ABBAACCDDC for this week’s challenge. Eugenia offers “envy” as the prompt for her challenge this week.