Three Ways My Friend

God’s not just God, He is my personal friend,
He made my time unto eternity,
for everything, on Him I do depend,
He clearly is superior to me.

God made Himself my equal since we share
our humanness, He came from up above
to be like us, and someday take us there,
and raise us all up equal in His love.

Christ came to serve, to be our servant true,
to humbly make Himself inferior,
show mercy to us for the sins we do,
to be less than us so we could be more.

O friendly God, I’m grateful for Your grace,
that wipes out differences with little trace.

                        by Pete Voelz       4/30/15

A Tenth of God

I think I know a tenth or so of God,
yet how much is that of infinity?
Just even one percent--that would be odd,
what’s one per cent of total mystery?

That’s why in Scripture’s lines Himself He shows,
He wants a part--a tenth?--to be revealed,
He can’t be too mysterious, He knows,
what good’s a God Who is too much concealed?

Our God-man Christ gave us a hundred per cent,
He left His infinitely happy home above,
His life, His death, all that He had He spent,
what more is there to know than such great love?

To me, O God, You need not prove or show
more than Your total love I already know.

                          by Pete Voelz        4/28/15
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His Faith in Me

Lately I find God puts His faith in me,
as I ask Him a favor when I pray,
already He’s sent me a GMC,*
at night I pray for what He’s done today.

Yet this has been His policy all along,
God showed His faith before I drew a breath,
and He forgives before I do a wrong,
He has prepared my heaven before my death.

Why does God put His faith in me before
He sees that I don’t live up to His grace?
For He already foretells what’s in store,
yet He mysteriously keeps up the chase.

I do not want to see Your faith disgraced,
let not Your faith in me, Lord, be displaced.

*GMC--God-Made Coincidence

                     by Pete Voelz        4/28/15
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Seizing the Day

O fleeting youth, enjoying every day,
beware your carpe diem isn't wrong;
the pleasure time you seize that cannot stay
is not just for your women, wine and song.

While shines the sun, the time's for making hay,
the transitory fun is only long
when love and friends are true in your bouquet
and ties to those in memory's store are strong.

There is, of course, a place for hours of play,
but don't just ape the follies of the throng;
sometimes alone we need prepare the way
for future joy than just now to belong.

Yes, stop to smell the roses on display,
but save up God's good blessings while you pray.

                                 by Pete Voelz      10/04

God to Me

First there was God, then His all-good Creation,
He saw our sin and promised a Savior-Son,
God wrote a book, with His Self-Revelation,
Christ came and died, with our salvation won.

Christ rose and left, but said He would abide,
He built His Church upon a rock so true,
He sent His Holy Spirit as a guide,
and promised He would keep it ever new.

Then God made me to help His plan succeed,
gave me His Spirit to guide me on our way,
His sheep I too am called upon to feed,
Christ gives Himself as food for me each day.

So much of this is garbed in mystery,
yet clear’s the line, O God, from You to me.

                          by Pete Voelz         4/26/15
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Leaving Christ

If I leave Christ, I have to go somewhere,
I know there is no better place to go;
where can I go to end up in a prayer?
For leaving Him, what would I have to show?

Christ is my life, my food, my meat and drink,
He is the flesh and blood on which I feed;
in my food chain He is the strongest link,
He is the Eucharist I know I need.

What is there in this world compared to Him?
Who else is there who's done so much for me?
For who else would I give my life and limb?
Who else can say I am His cup of tea?

For Him all my life long I've sacrificed,
what would I be if I stayed not with Christ?

                               -- by Pete Voelz      5/04

Flower Power

A flower is the opposite of power,
it has no strength except its passing beauty,
it cannot cause a lady bug to cower,
a daffodil but droops to do its duty.

A flower just reflects the will of heaven,
without our eyes it still obeys its nature,
without our sins, no need to be forgiven,
a rose is still a rose, no nomenclature.

Yet flowers have great power to attract,
they simply show themselves with no facade,
so beautiful, they never are attacked,
a lily needs no other knight but God.

But lilac, with your beauty from above,
you lack my beauty to forever love.

           by Pete Voelz         4/24/15
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