This is a first person, "as if", rendition of the New Covenant book of Mark from a perspective, a view - not the View, but a view - of the Unseen Substance of our most precious Faith. It's viewpoint is "through Jesus' eyes" because where the Holy Spirit is Lord, there is Liberty; and so I take the Liberty to let His Word dwell richly in me and flow through me as through the bed of a stream in "a land of milk and honey", in "a land of grain and new wine", the same "Mystery" that is "in you" if Christ dwells in your heart by faith, if the Word-made-flesh abides "with" you. It is as a "fire shut up in my bones", and herein its tongues have licked and have kissed the surface of that which I see. Without His Call and His Equipping, His ever-present Help, I could have done nothing, and could not have sat down, day by day, morning by morning and evening by evening and taken up the "Waterman" He provided at the Chalice Thrift Shop, the "the pen or a ready writer" and given voice to the Voice that sings in me to you.
This is the second volume of poetic meditations based on the Psalms, written as prayers for the Peace of Jerusalem and all Israel. The fi rst meditations in this volume were written in the port of Ashkelon, Israel on board the authors small vessel that he sailed to Israel from America in 2010on a Modern Odyssey, leaving her there to be used by modern warriors suffering from PTSD. The rest of the meditations were written next to the stained glass pictured on the cover, overlooking battlefi elds where the United States of America won her liberty.
At Sea is a book of poetic meditations on the Psalms written while standing watch in the darkness before dawn in intercession for Israel and her neighbors and in preparation for sailing on a small vessel on the authors twenty-third trip to “the land” of God’s promises. At Sea was finished on Mother’s Day, 2010 because Israel, that tiny “island” in the midst of “roaring seas,” birthed both Scripture and Messiah, the Word-made-flesh and she, as God’s wife, is the mother of our faith. “Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.” (John Donne)
In youth the author's heart put to sea to search for a love that stands the tests of time. Now, he and his wife go on missions of mercy, occasionally by sea; and the small ketch they call “Tiare Maori” is being prepared to sail on “the wings of the dawn”. The Vinson family's “Uncle Carl” is known as the “patriarch” and “father of the two ocean navy”; the author’s dream is to see a fleet of vessels commissioned for service in the Kingdom of God, flying Christ's ensign and setting sail to spread an aroma of blossomed “Loving-kindness” with which God desires to crown every life.
This is a celebration of falling in love and partaking of the Wine of the Beloved. It is both a meditation on the Song of Solomon, the Song of Songs and a celebration, a rumination on the love of the ancient Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi for the Divine in ways that bridge divides between faiths as the realization of the desire of nations.
An overly ambitious Secretary of State, who lusts to be the first woman President of the United States, is handed a once in a lifetime opportunity to make her dream come true. Abetted by her father, she enlists Irish and Islamic terrorists, the North Korean Navy and a Chicago mobster to assassinate, within a twenty-four hour time frame, the four men standing in her path to glory. An inquisitive intelligence analyst's interest is piqued by recurrent references to specific colors in the message traffic that he reads from the above areas of the world. A retired intelligence and submarine Flag office, a former SEAL, and a former All-American football star, now a computer super whiz, are called upon to solve the puzzle of the messages, formulate plans to counter the threats and to deliver justice to the perpetrators. They have only SIX weeks the defeat the conspiracy!!
This is a celebration of anointed poetic meditations on the timely yet ancient book of Isaiah. At the site of his tomb near Israel's border with Lebanon there is a plaque honoring Isaiah as the Bible's "greatest prophet" because even in times of trouble he carried the yoke of God's Covenant with "the greatest of joy".
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