Done for Haiku Horizons
on Sundays, his words
spit damnation and brimstone
no love or comfort
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 23/06/14)I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
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Haiku Horizons: Comfort
23 Monday Jun 2014
Posted in Challenges, Haiku, Poetry
I hope comfort lies somewhere not too far.
Happy Monday to you, Celestine.
Comfort is right here, in my heart 🙂 Lovely week Stella.
Very cruel on his part! well written. Celestine.
Thank you ma’am.
(((HUGS))), Celestine. I’ve been on the receiving end of what you describe here. I pray PEACE for you! Love, Amy
Thank you Amy. 🙂 Glad that this resonates with you. These days pastors and so called men of God are leading people astray. The churches are to give love, comfort and succor, not hell on earth.
Sending you tons of hugs too 🙂
That is why I avoid churches, Sweetheart. Hell is NOT the way of God. LOVE is. LOVE. I pray the day comes those very churches are empty with a “pastor” looking out only upon empty chairs. I KNOW God, have so ever since a child and I KNOW God is nothing but LOVE. I searched high and low for a church who knows God, and every church I have ever walked into, I have left. Bless you for posting this! Love, Amy
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Your haiku resonates with vibrant thunder…memories of priests shouting we were all going to hell…no feel good feelings there. Have a great week, Celeste.
Glad this resonates, Oliana. Thanks for coming by 🙂
Wow. That is wonderful. I’m thinking a ‘hard’ pastor is talking about entry into the gates of hell.
You’re thinking right baby!
My goodness. Is this type of fellow still out there working the pews? (Nice poem. Grabby.) 🙂
Right there, Alice. Too bad!
Yes. Too bad. There’s plenty of fire and brimstone in real life. People need more salve, cooling ointments and bandages.
hahaahaaa! Too true dear friend. 🙂
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the sad part of a good thing ! well woven as always ,Celestine !
Thank you Milan as always 🙂
welcome Celestine ! 🙂 hope you like my ” comfort ” too !
It is sad in my opinion when you go to church to find comfort and only find condemnation, gossip, and ridicule. Powerful haiku! Brilliant job on the prompt. Probably a lot of the reason I don’t go.
Kathy, thanks so much. I realise a lot of people don’t go to church because of these petty issues. But our God is a God of love. 🙂
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Celestine, I would have to agree there are sadly churches everywhere where this might be true, and the saddest thing of all is that they don’t know how or refuse to show the kind of love Christ had for His church and therefore cannot compel and draw those who need to hear the message of God’s love for the lost and dying, but I am so thankful and grateful for the love my church and pastors have for people whatever their background, faith, color of skin and gender or life style. It is the kind of agape love Jesus had for all, the kind we all need to have in order to spread the message and gospel. It is a joy and blessing to belong to such a church.
You are right, Joyce. Pastors in Ghana especially the so called pastors of charismatic churches have a penchant for preaching prosperity instead of love and salvation. They are full of materialism and and so superficial. I am a Presbyterian and love my church and Pastor.
I had to write this after listening to one of these mushroom pastors on radio. 🙂
The same ‘prosperity’ messages are spoken here in the United States as well. I too believe we need churches to get back to the basics of salvation, relationships, forgiveness and love. If one has all of that and places their priorities in the right place God will easily, always grant them prosperity as well.
Oh my!
{Hugs}
Too bad! 🙂
Thats really sad!
Yep!
wastage of words
Too true 🙂
It is a terrible thing to drive people away from God. Although there must be boundaries of behaviour.
You’re right. God is love and he embraces us all, sinner or not.
Nicely done Celestine, sometimes people misuse the power of words and their position.
You’re right, Reshma.
ouch! that must indeed hurt! really sad….powerful haiku! wonderfully written as always 🙂
Thank you Apurva, as always 🙂
I try to avoid sermons like that, if at all possible!
Looking for Comfort
And that is the wisest thing to do 🙂
Hope things turn out better 🙂
Amrit, I hope so too.
What a shame. I can completely relate to this!
Beautifully written – so powerful.
Thanks Jen. :
Hummm . . . pause to think on this Haiku. Well expressed.
Thank you 🙂