SENTINEL

 

Angels are you near me

To catch me if I fall?

Do you stand guard at the entrance

Of my heart

On God’s errand and sentinel’s call?

 

Do you pave the way

And steady my feet,

And ensure my enemy’s defeat?

 

You are unsung heroes

Of every journey’s flight

You are phantoms of love

Concealed from mortal sight.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Sentinel of Light by Greg Collins)

 

THE SERVANT

 

He who walked the dusty roads

Of Judea and Galilee,

Washed the feet of His humble servants

Who followed Him.

 

He who lowered himself

To the depths of humility,

Who once sat on godly thrones

Served the lowly humanity.

 

He who came to this earth willingly,

Divested of kingly authority

Out of the dust of Galilee

Gave us glorious immortality.

 

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Washing Disciples Feet by Albert Edelfelt)

A PROMISE TO FOLLOW

 

 I promised to follow

As You promised we’d never part;

I remember, I remember

And carry You always

In the shadow of my heart.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: The Lord is My Shepherd by Yongsung Kim)

MY LOVE AT THY FEET

 

If I had the might to plant Thee in each heart

Of all that breathes,

In pursuit of such a quest I would walk the earth

With apparent ease.

As I can do so little this desire to meet,

I lay my loyal love at Thy holy feet.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Come Follow Me by Gabriel Heaton)

 

MERCY

 

"And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind, and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he wil take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.

"And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people....."

- (Alma 7:11-12)

Will You come and carry me
When all my strength is gone?
Will Your mercy spill from You
When I can walk no more?

Will Your love lift me higher
To glimpse my eternal home?
Will I see my soul there
Before Your gilded throne?

When the sum of my life is done
Will You bring me home to keep?
I'll want to kneel and honour You
Before your godly Mercy Seat.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN

(Art: Carried by Christ by Gabriel Heaton)

TEARS AND FEATHERS

 

Before I left
You tried to tell me
Of the tears I would spill
But when I see a flying feather
I should surrender and be very still.

Now when a tear falls
I remember You,
My God and my King,
And I find Your loving comfort
In the shadow of Your wing.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN

(Art: Under His Wings by Ron DiCianni)

SELF-WILL

 

"The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give', are actually the things He has already given or loaned us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God's will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!

- Neal A. Maxwell, , "Swallowed Up in the Will of the Father" General Conference October 1995

I pleaded with You on bended knee
My problems to resolve.
You sat in silence hoping I would give You
What you yearned the most to own:
My self-will, my hesitance to relinquish control.
In the end I gave it up
And found solace in Thy soul.

Yes, You said,
Now you understand.
I paved the way
In Gethsemane long ago.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN

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