The promise is discovered in the process and the process requires patience.
Pastor Mike Todd
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I Am Enough
This feeling of inadequacy is clogging up fears In my throat I’m struggling to breathe in ENOUGH air for a day
I’m struggling to see the light my ART shines in dark tunnels
I’m struggling to see the FREEDOM bursting like light in many hearts
I stare at the stage and wish I were behind the pulpit
Spewing sleek words that must have been dry-cleaned for years
I yearn for the cameras to click on my face as I sashay even though I know my art isn’t a hundred percent
I forget I’m enough at where I am because I take my lessons
That I don’t have to prove a point, I only have to study and write my tests so every day, I can look at the score sheet, at the improving grades
And thump my chest, knowing, believing in the goodness of this PROCESS.
Everyday, I’m enough
I’m enough as who I am and who I’m evolving into
Ifiokabasi Okop
© 2020
CAP MONTHLY E-MAGAZINE // APRIL 2020 (FREE DOWNLOAD)
We present you another edition of the Christ A Poet’s Monthly E- Magazine, we discuss ‘Commitment To Process’ on this Issue . Our guest… shares her thoughts and personal insight on a purpose and surviving her own process in achieving purpose.
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You’re Blessed.
Imani Dokubo
Editor, CAP Monthly
HELL IN THREE STANZAS
Hell is rebellion
Pulling plug on life source
Drifting off from Definition
Dissolving into nothingness
Like fading fragrance mocked
By the briefness of its glory days
Hell is silence, is crushing grieved cries
Of wild drunken raves, quiet robbery
And the cold indifference of a million Church pews
The stench of pious hatred
The rot of carousing infidels
And the carcass of juggling both these
Hell is bitter dead end to living sweet route mirage
Trap Disneyland, minus innocence
It’s the sick deal Christ scrapes off the table
Evil’s two faced grand joker
Swept aside by God’s deft Checkmate
Process reverse, death-to-Life card
Ikenna Nwachukwu Alexander
© 2019
GOD’S LETTER
This love that leaves a bitter taste on my tongue
Is the sacrifice I promised I would have for you despite your flaws
You give me your heart in pieces
your brokenness is what I long for
the only thing I want from you
Mending is what I do with you
This process that shows you the love I hope you see
And I hope imprints on you
I do not give your heart back in pieces
I give you this new one, designed to be bound to me
Your gaze makes me feel like
I’m all there is in your heart
I tuck your hair behind your ear
Hold your hand, look at your face
I want you to follow me
I definitely have a lot to show you
IFIOKABASI OKOP
© 2019
Death and the Imago Dei
God says
I AM; space
shape-shifts on
His constancy
swinging and swerving in
and out, like flames
lit, waned, relit
by undying hands
Existence is
His filling , pouring
His infinite into
finiteness, a
creating, a
gaining fade, a death
process climaxed on
a Roman cross
His dying is living
life, is glorious
process played out
In moulding perfect
man, with His blood and body for
water and clay, art
and sacrifice, creation’s
true portrait
Ikenna Nwachukwu
© 2019
slowly with a process
The era of greatness
Began slowly with a process
A pause, a close of the eyes
It began in all truthfulness
Not with the light nor in her rays
But in despair and in darkness
Like a hawk process swooped
down into a deep troubling dream
So full of owls and bats
Bitter it was once, bitter is it still
Remembering as brave process
Fought and fought and fell
Without rescuing success
But then, HE came very well
In the wind, in the morning bell
Lifting her from the hollow hell
Into a new dawn of ideas
A splendid tomorrow
Devoid of frown and agony
Indeed, the era of greatness
Began slowly with a process
A pause, a close of the eyes
Ugwu David C.
© 2019
THE REFINER’S FIRE…
Because he knows the road on which I travel, when he had tested me, I’ll come out like gold
Job 23:10 (ISV)
Everything I have been talking about in this series revolve around the above scripture. Each time gold or any precious metal is mentioned, it takes me back to what it has to go through from when it is mined to when it is refined. I really wish I can get a real interview, I really do have a couple of questions for them. I believe if that was possible, they will tell me that the path to being valued so highly is not a palatable one. What we see in museums and jewellery stores are refined articles. They went through the refiner’s fire, and trust me, it was not a walk in the park.
The Hebrew word for REFINE is tsäraph which also means to test. So if God wants to test you, He takes you through the fire. This He does, not to burn you up, but to purify you and make you valuable and great. It is going to be uncomfortable and hot. You will lose some of the fleshly values you have given yourself, it will be a hot and tough process to go through, but it promises to make you better.
God has not said the path to greatness will be an easy one, but He is faithful enough to be with you through the fire. He has that pedigree and if He did it for one, He can do it for another. Trust in God and you will be just fine. There is greatness on the inside of you that is waiting for expression, just endure the heat of the fire and it will manifest when your test is over.
When you pass through the waters, I’ll be with you; and through the rivers, they won’t sweep over you, when you walk through fire you won’t be scorched, and the flame won’t set you ablaze
Isa. 43:2 (ISV)
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