Humanity is a painting on an earthy canvas...

Humanity is a painting on an
earthy canvas splashed with
Divine Paint!
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James W. King, 1993
 
Through all of
the changing scenes of life,
hope abides.
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James W. King
paraphrasing Nahum Tate

Let my wealth be stored in vaults
no earthly banker can unlock.
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James W. King

Duty to God precedes
but does not preclude a duty to man.
Besides, God is very patient,
He's willing to wait.
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James W. King
April 25, 1993

Belief does not require any proof.
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James W. King
April 25, 1993

You may still choose to believe
something you cannot prove.
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James W. King
April 25, 1993

Compassion and mercy warm the human soul
like sunshine and summer breezes
warm the human body.
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James W. King
April 25, 1993

What would God say if He were still on
speaking terms with man?
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James W. King
October 12, 1993

My heart whirls and jumps like
a carousel horse
while Calliope music plays
in the background of my mind.
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James W. King
April 23, 1993

Whisper of dreams and hopes to me,
For these are the permanent things.
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James W. King
April 22, 1993

Choose your beliefs as carefully as
your earthly treasures and
you can never be poor.
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James W. King
April 25, 1993

Which would you choose,
all the gold in the world
or your infinite soul?
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James W. King
April 25,1993

LORD, keep me from the things I want and grant me what you think I need.
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My Life's Prayer
James W. King

You cannot sell what you do not own.
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James W. King
a reference to God's gifts to mankind
 
Beauty surrounds me like a warm
summer breeze flowing around me
as I sit in a cool mountain stream.
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James W. King
April 20, 1993
 
At dawn I bathed in
a refreshing summer sunrise,
Then dried with
a warm breath of fresh air,
I wrapped myself in
the beauty of God's love
And flew off on
the wings of inspiration to meet
the new day He created just for me.
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The Calm at Dawn
James W. King
April 20, 1993
 
Daily I compose
a symphony in my mind
that changes with each playing,
But God has written
the melody, harmony and
lyrics on my heart,
Here they are still,
constantly at rest and
cannot be changed.
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The Symphony of Infinity
James W. King
December 25, 1992
 
God, wash me with your invisible soap
and rinse me with your unseen water.
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James W. King
 
A snowstorm is the chalkdust
from heavenly handwriting.
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James W. King
 
One bright cold December morn in Bethlehem
Mary wrapped God's Christmas present to the world,
Given out of the warmth and goodness of His heart.
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God's Greatest Gift
James W. King
December 25, 1992

Sing a song of innocence,
With a joy-filled melody,
a happy heart-felt harmony,
and lyrics that vibrate with love.
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Melody, Harmony, Love
James W. King

A memory is a wish
  cast adrift on a sea of dreams,
It's the silky wings of hope
  travelling aloft on
  the breeze of possibilities.
A memory is the world as
  you want it to be,
A vision of some cherished moment
  no one else can see.
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What Is A Memory?
James W. King
April 30, 1993

Fantasy tells us
every wish will come true,
Magic says
we can make it come true,
Reality proves every wish
does not necessarily come true,
Life is not a fairy tale and
magic is only from Hollywood,
The real thing requires
patience and determination,
grit and persistence,
desire and vigor,
All applied in very liberal doses.
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James W. King
January 16, 1994
 
Ideas are wings that
take flight only when
they fly into
the winds of inspiration.
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James W. King

Stars are the gleam,
glitter and glimmer in God's eyes.
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James W. King

All Creation is a
canvas of green and gold
Covered over with a
canopy of blue and white.
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James W. King
 

A sunbeam bouncing off a drop of dew,
The gleam in a child's eye,
The twinkle of a
particularly bright star,
The tear stained cheek of a
mother praying for her children,
And the ripple formed by a
droplet of rain in a puddle,
All of these combine to form the
Glitter in the Eyes of God.
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The Glitter in God's Eyes
James W. King
May 1, 1993

God, Bless all the Little Children,
For they have no voice or say,
In where they sleep or work,
Or go to live and play,
And whether they hold their peace
Or turn and run away,
God, Bless all the Little Children.
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God, Bless All the Little Children
James W. King
April 20, 1993
 
Always celebrate
Infinity, Eternity,
Beauty, Truth and Love,
And you will find yourself on a
Rainbow Bridge to Paradise.
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Cherished Keys
James W. King
April 20, 1993
 
While the memory of the mind is
only a flickering candle
The human heart burns on forever;
For some as a hard black lump of
anthracite coal,
And for others as a
blazing white crystalline diamond.
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Diamonds or Coal?
James W. King
April 20, 1993

Are Angels Art or Reality or Both?
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James W. King

Death has no control
over a boundless soul.
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James W. King

Sculpted and embossed
With His hammer of wind
And engravings of frost.
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To a Snowflake (1913)
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
James W. King paraphrase

The heart filled with hope can never die
For hope lives on forever.
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James W. King
 
Even the words used to describe God
produce a sense of awe and wonder;
Words like Majesty, Supreme Being,
The Infinite, Creator, Almighty,
Eternal Father, Merciful,
Compassionate One and Everlasting.
Even these are only
frail human attempts to portray an
Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent God.
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His Name is The Majestic One
James W. King

We tend to be most grateful for our own
insight into the causes of trouble
others are experiencing and the fact we
aren't like them. What we neglect is the
fact that God looks at our pity as pure pride.
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James W. King

Shining stars acknowledge their Creator,
As do the birds singing at dawn,
The buds bursting out in spring,
And the endless cycle of water
rushing to the shore,
Only arrogant, beligerent man
in his irrational pride
Denies the fact that even
the rocks understand.
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An Awesome God
James W. King
 
You may strip compassion
and mercy from your heart
but fortunately for you and I
God never does.
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James W. King
 
Unbridled joy is hope with even
the slightest doubt removed.
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James W. King

God blesses the generous thought
and even more so the generous deed!
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James W. King
after John Greenleaf Whittier
 

Pursuit of glory, fame and gold
is as silly as trying to
capture moonbeams in a jar
or to scrape fairy dust
from pixie's wings.
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James W. King, November 18, 1993