HEAVEN AT LAST

Heaven gets closer as time rushes by.

From God’s perspective a blink of the eye.

We will wonder then what happened to earth,

That land of sadness of gladness of mirth!

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A flicker, a flutter, a vapor, a mist,

A cold wintery morning, an orange sun kissed,

By God’s permission a dream in the night,

The serpent that hisses, and wakes us in fright!

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Permitted a testing the choice is still yours,

Between the good and the bad that allures.

The choice has been made, it is all in the past.

Happiness reigns now in heaven at last!

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The dream is fulfilled the dark night is over!

Never again the hissing, the roar

Of the serpent, banished from heaven’s domain,

And we in God’s presence forever remain!

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(Cannot help it, “things of earth grow strangely dim”

When faced with eternity, not that I am holier, but

face it, I am older thus closer to that wigwam in the sky,

or tent or cottage, whatever, I just want to get there.)

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Sam Cox 12.01.03

BARNABAS

She said “You did not cry when your eyelids dropped.

You did not go ‘boo-hoo’ to everyone.

You gave your car away to your fine grandson

Looked like your life on earth was done!”

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She said “That did not stop you, you got better.”

Reminded me that I kept writing stuff.

I kept reading, kept on praying, and got better!

I said I would keep on writing until He said “Enough!” (*)

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She said, well you know, she made me feel much better.

When we got through talking I felt great!

Made me feel more like life was worth the living,

From now on I am flying!  No slow freight!

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All these poems that I write I know she reads them.

Remembers, like, the word presumption.

Remembered from a previous one, she liked it,

Well, do not you know this guy too can dream some!

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Words like these can lift a guy high, you know, skyward!

Such words do not come too often anymore!

This granddaughter’s name, I think, is Barnabas,

Encourager, think I will call back some more!

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Another thing she told me, “Keep on praying!”

Helps me to go to sleep at night.

God knows and cares, wants me to care, also!

That is why you are in my prayers, feels so right!

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(*) God

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Sam Cox 06.19.04

THAT ABSOLUTE IMPERATIVE

The absolute imperative that most important fact,

From any age or culture or promising contact;

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Befitting the heroic from pleasure-loving age,

Adventures, most fast moving, from histrionic page

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Discounting wealth and power, as hard as that may be,

Experience the unusual to ultimate degree!

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Something far more basic than picture shows though wild.

Exciting rides soon ending clean fun all undefiled.

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Yes, something more important than finite pleasures, fun,

The infinite impending when this day on earth is done!

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What can profit anyone, experience any dream,

If we miss the immortal eternities main stream?

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This is it, the absolute imperative to find,

In this brief life direction and through it peace of mind!

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Is this, then, our direction to press toward the prize

Into the highest call imagination can devise?

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Beyond imagination there is nothing can compare,

To the matchless glory that with Jesus we will share!

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(Paul had an experience, caught up to paradise, where he had

experiences that he was not permitted to share.  Perhaps because

in our present mortal state we would not understand of fully

appreciate their exceptional glory!  Add to that forever and ever.

“It will be worth it all…”  Do not miss it!)

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SHC, that is me  09.20.02

BIRDS, CATS, AND KITTENS

The one people that I talk to,

If I can have my way,

Is the birds, they do not argue

But what they have to say—

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Is explicit, yes, they say

Exactly what they mean!

If you have learned; wing, head, bird language

And their chirps!  Are what they seem!

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They chirp ‘hello’.  They lift ‘good-bye’

And sometimes in between

They will wave a wing, chirp on through,

Like, sometimes in a dream!

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I hear Mike (*) talking but cannot

Remember what he said.

When I wake up cannot decipher

But as I scratch my head—

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I recollect, while pondering

As I climb out of bed.

Yes, I know that he said it but

Sure cannot think of what he said.

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Like, those kittens just a couple

Like with their mother there,

You wake up in the morning and

A hundred greet you there!

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Just a dream but that is the point,

When Ron (**) and Mike look in

Saw all those cats, I know they

Muttered something with a grin.

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But what they thought or muttered or

Just thought I will never know.

Well, evidently that is the way your

Dreams go with the flow.

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Will not attempt elucidation

Too formidable a plot!

It may be quite scary

But considering may not!

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However scary and afflicting,

Hundred kittens in one night,

Cats and kittens are taking over

Know I will wake up in a fright!

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(*) Mike is my son-in-law

(**) Ron is my son

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Father Cox 9.25.05

“WELL DONE…SERVANT”

Time flies by so quickly

Except when one is in pain.

Seems I had that dream before

But there it is again!

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Reverberations constant, cannot

Seem to squelch that sneeze.

It seems that every sneeze I do

Just drives me to my knees!

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I know this pain obliterates

The feelings that pursue,

Feelings that I should be doing

Much more than I do!

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That I should, I know right well,

The thought is very good!

“Dear Lord,” I pray, “Help me do

Exactly what I should!”

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Prayer is answered!  This I know

It is in the Father’s right

To permit things to happen

To keep me in the light!

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What I have done to bring this pain down

Truly I do not know!

What I do know, it is His right

To keep me in the flow.

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The flow of things more positive

Encouragement to some

Through letters and the telephone

May win my Lord’s, Well done!”

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Sam Cox  7.12.05