"A Morning Prayer - II"

Thank you for the breath in my lungs
 I ask your blessing
Thank you for my wife
 I ask your blessing
Thank you for my children
 I ask your blessing
Thank you for this food
 I ask your blessing
Thank you for you
 I return your blessing

"The Impotent Seven"

Lust
Overindulgence
Vainglory
Idleness
Never satisfied
Greed
Killing rage
I
Necessitate
Death
Nevertheless
Emmanuel
Shattered the
Seven

“Daddy Be Thy Name”

Our father
 who art on Earth
Daddy be thy name
Thy tickles come
Thy jokes be fun
But forget not to teach us
Give us this day our daily hugs
And lead us in prayer
 as we pray for others
Guide us in learning the Bible
And deliver us to Sunday school
For thou art our example
 and our model
 and thou showeth us Jesus

"You Want Cheese, Chesterton?"

Nothing’s quite better
Than pie a la cheddar
Or roast beef and Swiss
Served by a part-time miss

Now that I consider
(Your essay—what a winner!)
I realize that the cheese
Was not really what you mean

Outward march of urban sprawl
Made cookie cutters of us all
Persons under a steeple
Are now just lumped into “people”

Finely wrapped but flavorless bits
Just as fact’ry cheeses gave you fits
God made each—unique in His way
Trends and molds have taken that away

The countryside, where Creation peeks,
Glimpses of a kaleidoscope: souls who speak
Gifts, talents individualized
Sprinkling spice on our sacred human lives

Pris’ners to our own fast-minted design
Why bother thinking? Can I not just resign?
But God sent Jesus and made us all free!
(Hungry interruption: have you any brie?)

"C in History"

Creation
Choice
Curse
Corruption
Cataclysm
Captivity
Cross
Christ
Church
Consummation