THE LAMB OF GOD

 

                                        The baby in the stable                             

So innocent and sweet,

On the altar of sacrifice

Lay at Father’s feet.

 

-        CATHRYNE ALLEN

(Art: Love by Eileen Whitehead)

BABY'S HEART

 

Such magnitude of power

Of love, mercy and light

Cradled in small caverns

Of the baby’s heart.

 

-        CATHRYNE ALLEN

(ART: Kissing the Face of God by Morgan Weistling) 

THE GREATEST LOVE

 

No soft pillows and kingly bed

On which to lay His princely head.

A bleak future on some hill

Lay in shadows of His Father’s will.

 

For man’s purpose did He come

To dispel the gloom from devil’s hellish flood.

To light the world with heaven’s glow,

The greatest love you’ll ever know.

 

-     CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Baby Jesus by Jennifer Hickey)

SACRIFICIAL LAMB

 

On that fateful night

when shepherds watched the sacrificial lambs,

There was a shepherd child keeping watch

But one had gone astray.

He searched in vain the rich pasture of hay

And found Him peaceful

In the manger where He lay.

-     CATHRYNE ALLEN

(Art: Tender Shepherd by Eva Koleva Timothy)

ODE TO MARY

 

You carried your precious boy

So close to your beating heart,

Hoping it would protect Him

From the fate that would tear you apart.

You stood weeping at the foot of the cross

In the valley of humiliation and death,

Your pain and sorrow unable to suppress.

You are a mother, like no other……

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art by Liz Lemon Swindle)

ODE TO JOSEPH

 

As a tender plant , I grew

In the shadow of your wings

Never knowing danger was so near;

Your protection and your love

Dispelling all my fear.

 

When God called,

You heard His call,

So willing was your spiritually tender heart

No forces of hell could sever you

from your appointed path.

 

The guardian of my youth,

The obedient servant of the Lord,

Thou art Joseph

The valiant son of God. 

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Flight by Rose Datoc Dall)

JOURNEY'S JOY

 

As in my heart the secret grew

And love was nurtured there,

The fears fled and joy was spread,

A joy beyond compare.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: The Journey by Liz Lemon Swindle)

ODE TO ELIZABETH AND MARY

 

Among valiant sons of God

Who were chosen rulers to be

Stood the daughters so fair

They echoed throughout eternity.

-  CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Jump for Joy by Corby)

THE GREATEST GIFT

 

I marvel at Thy willingness

To descend from the regions of bliss

That was Thy heavenly home

To pay the ransom for my soul.

 

You are my greatest gift,

My love and my all,

I bow in reverence

before the foot of Thy throne.

 

-        CATHRYNE ALLEN

 

(Art: The Greatest Gift by Liz Lemon Swindle)

A GLORIOUS VICTORY

 

A life well lived,

The price willingly paid,

A glorious victory

At His feet laid.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art by Alex Kovych) 

REFINER'S FIRE

 

Let me dear Lord

Sit by Thy furnace of affliction

To warm myself by Thy refiner’s fire.

Purge my suffering and polish me as silver

That I might in the end receive my desire;

When Thou wilt come

To gather Thine own

To receive us into Thy bosom,

To carry us home.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Pour Out Your Whole Soul by Greg Collins) 

SEEDS OF LOVE

 

You ploughed the sacred ground of my heart

And tenderly sowed Your seeds of love;

I will nurture and water them daily 

Until home to You I come.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN

(Art: Let It Rain by Greg Collins)

ENTRANCE TO HIS HEART

 

Daily I stand in my holy place

As I feast upon Thy holy word,

Ever hopeful I will meet You there

Thy Spirit to embrace

And the cares of this world to arrest;

I reach for You in darkness

And step up to heaven’s door;

I am bathed in light

And am granted entrance to Your heart.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Come Unto Me by Yongsung Kim)

IN FAITH

 

I will look for Thee in faith

My Lord and my God;

When I am oppressed,

When I am unloved,

When I am wronged.

 

I will look for Thee

When I can walk no more;

And I will find Thee,

The Saviour of my soul,

Thou who waits for those who call,

To renew their strength,

To save them from their fall.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

WHERE I AM MEANT TO GO

 

I lift, I lift,

Above the world below.

I reach and find Your hand

To guide me where I am meant to go.

You are my guiding light,

You are my all,

You are my inner compass

That will bring me home.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Guiding Light by Annie Henrie Nader)

PRAYER

 

I will scatter my prayers upward

Like birds in flight reaching for Thy throne;

I will trust in Thy wisdom,

I will surrender my soul,

To see more clearly the sacred path home. 

- CATHRYNE ALLEN

(Art: Waiting for Answers by Jenedy Paige)

FEARS

 

I cupped my fears in my hands

Like a prized possession;

I reasoned they were my protection.

I examined each and found

Chains around my heart.

I spread my hands toward heaven;

Like butterflies they flew to Thee.

My heart knows no sorrow

That I have set them free.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN

(Art: Joyous Delight by Greg Collins)

DIVINE GARDENER

 

I gift my all to Thee,

The gardener of my soul,

My wings of protection from the cold,

The path to my eternal home. 

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: The Divine Gardener by Greg Collins)

COME UNTO ME

 

If forsaken you happen to be

Come unto Me.

If unloved you were made to be

Come unto Me.

If wronged you were forced to be

Come unto Me.

If in darkness lost you came to be

Come unto Me.

I will know your name,

I am the keeper of the flame.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN

(Art: Come Unto Me by Yongsung Kim)

A GRANDMOTHER'S HEART

 

You followed your mother into my heart

Carefully tracing her foot prints that led to mine,

Knowing I was waiting for your loving arms.

You are the offspring of my body and my heart;

The proof of God’s mercy,

The proof of His love divine.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN

(Art by Nomi Wagner)

GIFTS TO MOTHERS

 

What are children to a mother

If not gifts from heaven’s door;

As jewels from God’s own bosom

Gifted to her heart forever more.

Entrusted with the greatest charge

Sealed with hope of tender care;

From His hands

To mothers given

As gifts of worth beyond compare.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN

ANGELS AMONG US

 

“Motherhood is near to divinity. 

It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.

It places her who honours its holy calling and service next to the angels.”

 

-       The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: 

 Heber J. Grant, J. Reuben Clark, David O McKay