by J. Prescott Johnson | Dec 4, 2018 | Poetry
I, too, once opened my heart to happiness! Everything around me I heard speak of holy love; I wept at others tears, suffered at others pain; ah! to that lost enchantment who will return me one day? I wept at others tears, etc. From Verdi Nabucco In the golden years of...
by J. Prescott Johnson | Jul 28, 2016 | Poetry
The Sacrament of Love There were days of youth When the union of love signaled the sacred moment When love became eternal in the records transcending time. There is, we are told, No marrying or giving, In marriage in heaven. There the customs of earth Are gone, no...
by J. Prescott Johnson | Jul 28, 2016 | Poetry
The Way of Peace To walk the way of peace, To be called in the annals of earth The children of God, And in heaven the beloved of God. This is the inheritance we seek, The inheritance of the saints, In earth the aim supreme And in heaven the aim realized. Then, even in...
by J. Prescott Johnson | Jul 28, 2016 | Poetry
The Universal Song All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name vs. 5 O that with yonder sacred throng We at His feet may fall; We’ll join the everlasting song, And crown Him Lord of all. There are hymns that are specific, Extolling various particular interests. One thinks of...
by J. Prescott Johnson | Jul 28, 2016 | Poetry
The Wisdom of Love Philosophy is the supreme category, It is the love of wisdom. The emphasis is upon love, The love that searches for wisdom. But there is also The wisdom of love, For love possesses A wisdom of its own. It is this wisdom That yields the insight...
by J. Prescott Johnson | Jul 28, 2016 | Poetry
At Jesus’ Feet And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner. When she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharasee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, And stood at his feat behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them...
