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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Ode to 9/11
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Gregg Metcalf has served as the Teaching Pastor of Surprise Valley Baptist Church (Cedarville, CA) and the Mirror Lake Baptist Church (Federal Way, WA.) He graduated from Shasta Bible College in 1989. Gregg is married to Irene and the Lord has blessed them with four daughters and six grandchildren, with a great grandchild on the way. Gregg invites your comments and interaction concerning his posts and this blog! Gregg enjoys reading, boating, song-poem writing, and his family.
Thanks for an ode written form the heart.
ReplyDeleteYvonne.
Sometimes I wonder if 9/11 and so called natural disasters are wake up calls from God.
ReplyDeleteIn the O.T. God often dropped His protective hedge and allowed Israel to be chastised by an evil foreign country in order that they would repent and return to Him.
2 Chronicles 7:14 (New King James Version)
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
That's really beautiful!! Amen to that! God bless those families and God bless you!!
ReplyDeleteThis is a well written poem that speaks plainly of the truths that our government and most of U.S. citizens, including many of those who call themselves Christians, avert their eyes to. Until we face the facts that lofty ideals of this world are just futile talk and there are much greater spiritual issues at work, we cannot understand what is really going on here.
ReplyDeleteAs with the history that you have pointed out, it's there in the Bible for all to read. Despite claims of "bringing democracy", "Islam is a religion of peace", and all of the other commmonly cited cliches, the conflict will not end as a result of America's efforts. Despite what anyone tries to claim, it IS a holy war--a war that began 1400 years ago and has never ended since that time. Most people either don't know their history or choose to ignore it.
This was a great provocative piece of poetry that more people should read and then ponder.
Lee
Tossing It Out
Well said... I pray that in rememberance some will turn to the one they turned to in those frightening days.
ReplyDeleteGreat Post Gregg! You are a gifted writer.
ReplyDeleteBravo! Wonderful poem to express what happened on 9/11 nine years. You captured it very creatively and comprehensively. Loved it!
ReplyDeleteBravo! Wonderful poem to express what happened on 9/11 nine years. You captured it very creatively and comprehensively. Loved it!
ReplyDeleteWell said, Gregg. I pray that God would draw many to Himself in these precarious days.
ReplyDeleteLike O.G., I too, thought to myself as I watched the attack and those twin towers fall, that this was a "wake up" call to America from God. That, as a nation, we have not trusted, honored, believed and followed the Word of God. Is the Devine hedge of protection lifted? I pray no! Have we, as a nation, forgot? I pray not! Great poem, but a little hard to read with the blue letters on the blue background, but loved it. Thank you for remembering.
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