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Sonnet: Proverbs 7:4-Wisdom’s Crown, Insight’s Fire by Debbie Harris

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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Call wisdom sister, crowned with sapphire’s fire,
And call understanding kin, a ruby’s glow,
Twin sentinels who blaze through storm’s desire,
To trace a path where onyx shadows flow.
Her voice, a stream, spills topaz through the dark,
Its currents gleam with pearls of sacred lore,
While understanding, torch with amber’s spark,
Illumes the depths where doubt’s grim emeralds soar.
No fleeting shades, they rise from hallowed stone,
With roots that clasp the bedrock of God’s will,
Through chasms strewn with jasper yet unknown,
They guide where opal blooms crown Zion’s hill.
So bind them near, these jewels fierce and bright,
For wisdom dances, insight rends the night.


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Sonnet: Pearls Before Swine by Debbie Harris

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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Do not cast pearls where muddy hooves tromp free,
Nor spill your treasure in the mire of scorn,
For swine, unseeing, trample grace with glee,
And rend the giver, leaving soul forlorn.
The heart’s fine gems, by Christ’s own blood refined,
Deserve the meek who seek His holy face,
Not brutes who wallow, deaf and dumb and blind,
To truth that shines through time and boundless space.
Yet still we yearn to share the sacred light,
To sow where stony fields refuse to bloom,
But wisdom bids us guard what’s pure and right,
Lest holy gifts meet undeservèd doom.
So hold your pearls for those with ears to hear,
And save your song for souls who hold it dear.

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Haven From The Heartless by Debbie Harris

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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Within us glows the Christ, our hope supreme,
A beacon strong through shadows thick with strife,
Yet round us lurk the hearts that scorn the dream,
Unreasonable souls who shun the life.

Not all men bear the faith that lifts the soul,
Some wicked turn from truth’s unyielding call,
Their malice weaves a dark and bitter toll,
A snare to trip the faithful lest they fall.

But grace divine, our shield through every plea,
Delivers us from hands that seek to bind,
For in His love, we find the strength to flee,
The peace that calms the storm of mortal mind.

So stand we firm, with hope as our refrain,
Saved from the lost, through faith we shall remain.

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Esteeming Every Soul Above Our Own by Debbie Harris

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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In humble hearts where self takes lesser throne,
We lift each soul above our pride’s high claim,
Esteeming all as treasures yet unknown,
Their worth in Christ’s own image still the same.
No clamor seeks the crown of fleeting praise,
But gentle hands extend to bear their load,
For in the bending low, we find our days,
Enriched by grace along this sacred road.
His love, the pattern traced in dust and blood,
Compels us to the meek and selfless art,
To wash the feet where once our Master stood,
And bind His joy within each tender heart.
So may we live, their good above our own,
A hymn of lowly love to Him alone.


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Peaks Of Sacred Sight by Debbie Harris

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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Upon the mountain tops of sacred word,
We climb with fervent hearts to seek His gaze,
Where Jesus’ sight unveils a world unstirred,
By sin’s deceit or culture’s fleeting maze.
The valleys bloom with grace beneath His view,
Each peak resounds with love that never fades,
The truth, a lantern, ever burning true,
Illumes our path through mortal nights and days.
For His great glory, let our lives be sown,
A testament of mercy’s tender call,
To mirror Christ, whose heart for us was shown,
In sacrifice that ransomed one and all.
So may we stand, His light through us to shine,
A sonnet lived in truth and love divine.


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Luminous Deeds Echo Graceful Communication by Debbie Harris

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Hebrews 13:16 (KJV)

To do good deeds and share with open heart,
Forget not these, for they are sweet to Him,
A sacrifice of love, a noble art,
That lights the soul when worldly joys grow dim.
The hand that gives, though weary it may tire,
Shall find its strength renewed in tender grace,
For in such acts, we rise above desire,
And meet the divine in every stranger’s face.
Communication binds us, thread to thread,
A web of care no distance can unwind,
Through words and works, God’s pleasure is our bread,
A feast for hearts that seek and strive to find.
So let us give and speak with ceaseless cheer,
For thus we please the One who holds us dear.

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Sonnet: On Approving Evil by Debbie Harris

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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The moment we let evil find our nod,
A shadow falls where love once brightly shone,
We stray from paths where saints and prophets trod,
And turn from God to stand with sin alone.
His love, a flame that bids us seek the good,
Grows dim when we embrace what He abhors,
Our hearts, approving wrong, reject what could
Have kept us safe within His sacred doors.
For love divine recoils from wicked cheer,
It cannot dwell where darkness gains a voice,
The choice to praise what’s vile brings judgment near,
A self-made chain forged by a rebel’s choice.
To walk in God is love’s unyielding call,
But evil’s nod begins our bitter fall.

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The Slumber Of The Sacred by Debbie Harris

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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In pulpits high, the sacred voice grows still,
A drowsy hymn to cloak the rising night,
Where once it thundered truth from hill to hill,
Now whispers bend to soothe the serpent’s plight.

The words, once sharp to pierce the shadowed veil,
Turn soft, a balm for souls that dread the cost,
From hallowed wood, they weave a gentler tale,
And righteousness lies buried in the frost.

The flock below, entranced by silken lies,
Drifts far from flames that prophets used to wield,
While evil grins beneath a preacher’s guise,
Its triumph sown in fields the Word once tilled.

Yet dawn may break this slumber’s tender hold,
If pulpits blaze anew with fire of old.

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Seven I Am’s: Bread, Light, Door, and Shepherd’s Reign, Life, Way, Vine to Free the Soul’s Refrain by Debbie Harris

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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1. “Seven I Am’s: Bread to Feed the Soul’s Refrain”

The hunger gnaws at souls adrift, alone,
Yet here a bread descends from heaven’s store,
No crust to crumble, stale upon the stone,
But life itself to feed forevermore.
Through desert hearts where famine long held sway,
A sustenance beyond the fleeting grain,
He offers all who seek him, come what may,
A feast to banish want and heal the pain.
The world may offer husks to dull the need,
But this bread fills where mortal fare falls short,
A living gift for those who dare to feed,
A table set where grace and truth consort.
So souls redeemed arise, their hymn begun,
To sing of bread that makes the many one.


2. “Seven I Am’s: Light to Brighten Night’s Dark Stain”

In shadows deep, where blindness cloaks the day,
A radiance breaks to chase the night apart,
No torch of man, no fleeting, fickle ray,
But light eternal born to guide the heart.
Through gloom of sin, where stumbling feet despair,
He shines a path the darkened cannot see,
A beam to pierce the thickest, foulest air,
And call the lost to walk in liberty.
The world’s dim lanterns flicker, fade, and die,
Yet this light holds, unyielding to the storm,
A dawn for every weary, tear-stained eye,
A glow where souls redeemed find truest form.
Their praise ascends, a song of brilliance won,
For light has triumphed where the dark once spun.


3. “Seven I Am’s: Door Where Grace and Peace Remain”

The gate stands wide, no lock to bar the way,
A portal carved from mercy’s boundless frame,
Where wanderers lost in fields of disarray
May enter safe and call upon his name.
No wall too high, no thorn too sharp to bear,
For here the shepherd bids his flock draw near,
A passage free from peril’s lurking snare,
A haven wrought through love and not through fear.
The world builds doors of iron, cold and grim,
But this one swings with grace for every soul,
A threshold crossed by faith, not fleeting whim,
Where broken lives are mended, made whole.
Redeemed, they sing of entrance freely given,
A hymn to him whose death became their living.


4. “Seven I Am’s: Shepherd Guiding Through the Pain”

The flock lies scattered, torn by wolves of night,
Yet comes a shepherd, staff in hand, to lead,
His voice a balm to calm their panicked flight,
His life laid down to meet their deepest need.
Through valleys dark, where death’s own shadow falls,
He walks ahead, his care a steady guide,
No hireling he, who flees when danger calls,
But one who knows his own and stays beside.
The world’s false guides abandon at the cost,
But this good heart seeks out the bruised, the stray,
A love so vast it finds the fully lost,
And brings them home beneath the breaking day.
Their souls, redeemed, lift praise in tender strain,
For he who died now lives to guard their gain.


5. “Seven I Am’s: Life and Rising to Regain”

The tomb looms cold, a seal on hope’s last breath,
Yet here a voice declares the grave undone,
No end remains where he defies all death,
A rising dawn where night had thought it won.
Though tears may fall and shroud the heart in gloom,
He calls the dead to wake, the bound to stand,
A power vast to break the silent tomb,
A life renewed by his almighty hand.
The world sees dust and whispers all is lost,
But this truth sings through time’s unyielding strife,
A victory won beyond the final cost,
Where faith becomes the pulse of endless life.
Redeemed, they shout a hymn no death can still,
For he is risen, bending all to will.


6. “Seven I Am’s: Way and Truth to Break the Chain”

The road is rough, with forks to lead astray,
Yet here a way unfolds, both sure and straight,
No lie can twist its course, no doubt delay,
For truth itself has opened wide the gate.
Through mazes built by hands of frail design,
He carves a path where life eternal flows,
A compass clear, a word of grace divine,
To guide the soul where only mercy knows.
The world spins tales and trails that end in dust,
But this road holds, unwavering and free,
A life beyond what mortal minds can trust,
A truth to set the captive spirit free.
Their song ascends, redeemed by his decree,
A hymn to him who charts eternity.


7. “Seven I Am’s: Vine Where Faithful Hearts Attain”

The branches wither, cut from living root,
Yet here a vine extends its verdant hold,
To bear in barren hearts abundant fruit,
A sap of life through seasons harsh and cold.
He tends the growth, with care to prune and mend,
Each tendril bound to him in perfect peace,
No wild vine this, but one that grace defends,
Where love’s own yield shall never fade nor cease.
The world’s false stems may promise fleeting bloom,
But dry to ash beneath a hollow sun,
While this true source defies the drought of doom,
And knits the soul to God till all is one.
Redeemed, they sing, their voices intertwined,
A hymn of praise to him, the living vine.

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A Living Hymn Of Praise: Blank Verse by Debbie Harris

23 Sunday Feb 2025

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No finer hymn of praise exists on earth
Than that which rises from a soul redeemed.
Through shadows thick with grief, it finds its voice,
A quiet strength that echoes far beyond
The chains it broke, the weight it cast aside.
Each breath becomes a testament to grace,
A song not carved in stone but lived aloud,
Where once was silence, now a pulse of light.
The world may clamor with its hollow tunes,
But none can match the stillness of this joy,
A melody that flows from wounds made whole.

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