Shepherd's Warning, Shepherd's Delight

Patrick McLuskie, Liesl Johnstone

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781725254909, 9781725254916
• eBook ISBN: 9781725254923
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Religious Poetry
• Index: Literature

Shepherd's Warning, Shepherd's Delight is a book of poetry describing Patrick McLuskie's walk from a lost place of belief in the abstract as God, where taking control of one's destiny is a matter of will and application, to a broken and then healed place before the personal God of Christianity. Turmoil became calm, calm became turmoil, backwards and forwards, as the understanding of self and the acceptance of grace, gently and gradually drew him to the feet of God. To the foot of the cross.The realization that the Bible is God's word brings both relief and challenge. It is no neutral document. It demands a choice. It is both our greatest obstacle and our highest desire as we delight in it and weep before it, clinging to the hope that is Jesus, our Shepherd.

Look, Here Comes that Fool

“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

—St Paul, 1 Cor 1:18 (NASB)

Harbor of Dreams

Father, you know we harbor

these dreams

in our hearts true.

Hidden beneath

the layers of the day,

our scales of iron

would deflect the world of our placement,

that we would be alone with you

in the quiet spaces within.

And these dreams

that we carefully raise

would grow and become bold

and rail against the confinement

of our fears.

Father, you know we harbor

these dreams

in our hearts deep.

Where we may hold a mirror

to the face of Your Spirit

and in imitation

fly, through the world of our placement

as great birds of light,

and graciousness would fall

from our coat of feathers

to lie at the feet

of those we fear;

who through their simple indifference

would cause us to cower

in the far places of our hearts,

and tell our dreams, no.

The Triangle

The walls you build for me Father,

are they to keep the world out

or do they keep me within

a garde...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• His Poor Materials
• NIGHT
• DAWN
• LIGHT
• Look, Here Comes that Fool
• About the Author