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https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/OTW_S5-E10-SElmores-essay.mp3Steven Elmore is the President of the C.S. Lewis Foundation. He has over 20 years of experience working at nonprofit organizations and educational institutions, including serving as a community college adjunct professor (English composition), software instructor (basic to advanced MS Office), GED instructor (science, history), test preparation tutor, and in a wide range of office management and administration roles. His specific skill sets include event management, teaching/training, team leadership, program management, writing, communications strategy, strategic planning, and computer technology. He is also a writer for Cultivating Magazine.
Like A Lamb
by Matthew Clark
Fear and pride are just two sides, friend
Of Caesar’s tarnished penny
Quietness and rest belong to God
But who hasn’t studied warfare
On the battlefield of life here
Perfecting self-defense just to survive?
You know how good it feels, love
To scratch the itch of anger
But complaining only chains us up inside
Feels like safety and power
In a world so full of danger
It feels like danger to be grateful, small, and quiet
CHORUS
But Oh, I see the Mighty Word of God
Go silent to the slaughter like a Lamb
Oh, I hear the voices of the crowd
Grow louder as the buried kernel’s roots descend
Cause the roots beneath the surface
Search and listen for a music
That is and was and will be evermore
Like an acorn to an oak tree
Who would ever think it could be
That those little lambs might ever rule the world
But the meek will spread their branches
Above the clamour of the nations
The sons of God will rest beneath their shade
And the politics of power
That seemed so strong until that hour
Will fall into the traps their power laid
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Nobody’s free from hardship
And the briers in the garden
Can push their way so deeply down inside
Till what started out so tender
Is choked out by the winter
And gentleness don’t have a chance to flower
But don’t let your love grow cold, dear
or buy the lies they’ve sold here
For the fools of God will fiddle on the roof
All their lives they were the punchline
Now their laughing faces outshine
Every image Caesar thought would get him through
©2023 Matthew Clark, Path in the Pines Music (ASCAP)
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S5:E15 – A Tale of Two Trees: Anita K. Palmer, “Mercy in the Wind”
S5:E14 – A Tale of Two Trees: Amber Salladin, “Singing the Feast of the New Creation”
S5:E13 – A Tale of Two Trees: Lancia E. Smith, “Reaching for the Unseen”
S5:E12 – A Tale of Two Trees: John Barnts, “Downside Up”
S5:E11 – A Tale of Two Trees: Jason Smith, “The Power and the Pit”
S5:E9 – A Tale of Two Trees – Benjamin Holsteen, “Sing an Exile’s Love Song”
S5:E8 – A Tale of Two Trees: Heidi White, “Two Trees, One Cross”
S5:E7 – A Tale of Two Trees: Emily Verdoorn, “Rain”
S5:E6 – Encouragement: Saying the Good Things
S5:E5 – The (understandable) lie of cynicism, and the reality of hope
S5:E4 – I have a confession to make
S5:E3 – The Joyous Grace of Creative Incompetence
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