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)