Michael Bray

Author of A Time To Kill

Holy Poetry for the Common Man

(Caution. Not necessarily for children or pernickety adults) It cannot be denied, I am a piece o’ shit ‘Tis my confession; can’t deny it. We are sinners in the hands of a holy God, Traipsing all over His beautiful sod. I am I among this nasty congregation Unable to achieve a feasible segregation. Sin’s hold […]

Need Ike to Cut That Lawn

Need to get Ike back on the lawn; Got to get that grass cuttin’ on. The boy is down right necessary; Can’t go find a girl to marry! We need him here all his life Can’t have him out findin’ a wife! “O Lord, help us find a way The grass is growin’ every day! […]

The People Are Going Into Exile

(Is. 5:13-23) The people are going into exile For a big o’ lack o’ that knowledge (Got nothin’ t’ do with that college) The honorable men are famished And the multitude is downright parched Sheol got his mouth wide open For some souls ready and gropin’. The city’s getting’ swallowed right up (14) The Lord […]

Annapolis: A Fond Recollection

There are those events in everyone’s life, one may suppose, which are fondly and, perhaps, proudly recalled.   And so we do call them to mind from time to time to delight our souls.  There is one, accordingly, which I would recount on this particular morning as I reflected once again upon it.  It was the […]

On the Reception of Children

The pics on the wall are eleven; They testify to the Lord of heaven, Who gave each one of them to us. Ours was in Him to trust As He brought them into being From our praying to our seeing. Oh we prayed not for them to come (We were happy to drink that rum); […]

Justice and Mercy at Once

Love existed eternally in the past. Love – the Father, Son, and Spirit – Needed nothing else to love. He is love itself and ruled all above And below and everywhere to know, And there was no where one might go To escape His gaze or presence. This One made the world and man And […]

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