Category Archive: Faith

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December 25, 2008

Christmas Haiku

The Transcendent God
Incarnate as a Child
Joining God and Man

Omnipotent God
Come as a Servant to All
Leading to Freedom

Holy, Sinless God
Dies as a Man on a Cross
Bears our Sins Far Away

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December 25, 2007

God so loved

God so loved

By Steven

God so loved, He created
Created the universe, with beauty and wonder

God so loved, He cried
Cried over man’s fall, and the evils it brought

God so loved, He promised
Promised salvation, for those who would trust

God so loved, He became
Became a child, weak and dependant

God so loved, He lived
Lived as a man, with all the pains and heartaches

God so loved, He died
Died to redeem us, freeing us from sin

God so loved, He rose
Rose to rule, with justice and mercy

God so loved, He dwells
Dwells within us, training us to be like Him

God so loved, He returns
Returns to end evil, restoring beauty and wonder

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July 04, 2005

Four Joyous Fourths

I wanted to write about some of the specific memories I had of happy 4th of July's (from childhood on), and this unexpectedly came out. Not my best work; but I do poetry so rarely these days, I am satisfied.

Four Joyous Fourths

Bright sparkles on a velvet sky
Booms echoing against the hill
Eyes open wide, head tilted high
Drinking in the moment of joy

Rainbow blossoms cover the night
Thunder rumbles with every flash
Family gathered, all is right
Celebrating the nation's joy

Concert ends, then fireworks starts
Canon booms yield to rocket blasts
Crowds of people enjoy the arts
Stolen kiss from my love, my joy

On the bluff watching many shows
Too far to hear, but many seen
Just married. What comes next? Who knows?
Questions fade, forgotten in joy.

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April 15, 2005

Exercise #1 (a start of a story)

I am an aspiring writer, still working on my craft by doing small projects, experimenting with new techniques, etc. I don’t feel I am ready to try to publish yet; but I am getting more and more comfortable with what I am able to produce. I expect to periodically publish pieces of projects for feedback. Here’s the first – let me know what you think.
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The commencement ceremonies at Prina University were flush with all of the splendor and spectacle the empire could muster – an endless series of speeches, awards, and choral arrangements. It was over two hours before they began to call the graduates forward to receive their degrees. Plenty of time for Prince Nico Bar-Ettran to perform calculations on the likely causes of the seats reserved for his house being empty.

Not that he expected his father, Duke Ettran, to appear. Nico revised his calculations of that probability the previous day and determined that it had actually dropped from 4 tenths of a percent to below 3 tenths of a percent. However the likelihood that the Duke would send someone to represent the house was 83.3478% likely. Nico had even asked Den – Prince Denor Bar-Aran – his closest associate at school check his analysis on that. Den has discovered a small error in how Nico had accounted for the recent productivity improvements on Thallen – a small industrial moon under the fief of Count Oren from which the house of Ettran purchased household goods; but the effect was insignificant.

Den of course made the most of Nico’s lapse – occasions where Den topped Nico in “serious” matters were rare, and with both of them graduating, unlikely to occur again in a friendly manner. True, their houses were allied; but business between houses were never friendly. Nor were Den and Nico really friends. The ability to form strong attachments to individuals was one of the things which was engineered out of the nobility when the empire was founded. The minds of the nobility were designed to always favor the needs of the many, and personal attachments interfered with that – among the many trade-offs made to create a true ruling class that disserved to rule.

So Nico spent must of the commencement reviewing the scenarios which accounted for the 16.6522% likelihood of no representative of House Ettran showing up to see him graduate…..

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