EXTREMITIES

Our extremities are the Lord’s opportunities

To heal us from all of our infirmities,

Verbiage is to devotion and chaff to the wheat

Contriteness of heart will take us to the mercy seat

 

Wantonness insights us to be arrogant and boast

Thus our love is for the table, but not for the Host,

Holiness is like frankincense and myrrh to Him

With dispensation of His grace, our life begins

 

Hear His own eulogy of that love in the golden Canticle

And with thine eyes thou shalt see His miracle,

Break the alabaster box and pour His precious oil upon your head

Happy you will be, living here on earth, or even when you are dead

 

Perfume your Lord with myrrh and aloes, and cassis of your heart

Forever He will be with you, never will He depart,

Misery should always place itself right in the face of mercy

For our precious Lord and Redeemer, is God’s Deity!

©Sheriff Ali 2006

Author’s Comments

Oneness with God allows flowers to appear in our hearts, hope, love, and peace and patience spring from the sod, the hyacinth of repentance, the snowdrop of pure holiness, the crocus of golden faith, the daffodil of love, will deck the garden of our souls. We will say; “In life and in death let me be consecrated to Thee.”