Covenant of Care
By Maxine Lantz
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Covenant of Care features poetry describing the life-changing transformation in a life that is committed to Jesus Christ and in a heart that is His forever.
Maxine Lantz
This book deals with the impact that accepting Jesus Christ can have in a life. A new cleansed heart and soul combined with the peace, joy, love, mercy and grace of Jesus Christ is the reward for surrendering one's life to Christ. The author has experienced that life-changing transformation in her life and wants others to know that same transformation is available to them. She believes that God has given her the words in this book. She calls herself God's typist, for that is all that she has to do once God has given her the words. She lives in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, with her husband, Jim. When they married in 2003, they blended families of three boys (hers) and four girls (his). Now they are all theirs. They presently have three grandsons and four granddaughters. They enjoy serving in their local church and have been extremely blessed with people who love them.
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Covenant of Care - Maxine Lantz
A Gift by Special Delivery
I wasn’t there when the Gift arrived.
It was laid on a bed of hay.
The angels announced that the Gift had come
And then without delay
The shepherds left their flocks in the field
And went to Bethlehem town
To see the world’s most wondrous Gift
Who from heaven’s great heights had come down.
The Magi came with their presents there;
They came from a country far.
They brought their gifts upon camels’ backs
And followed the shining star.
They found the Gift in a stable,
A place where cattle stirred,
And knelt before the Gift and gave
Gold, frankincense and myrrh.
King Herod did not want the Gift;
He saw it as a threat
And killed the babies under two
Without a hint of regret.
I’d heard the story of the Gift
Throughout the years much-told
And all the things that happened then
To make history unfold.
I never felt the Gift was mine
As I lived upon this earth.
But the day I repented of my sins
My gift was second birth.
The Gift that had lain upon that hay
Atoned for my sin and shame
And then I noticed in the Gift
Amazingly … my name!
The Gift just had been waiting
For me to see at last
That all the years of sin and shame
Were forgotten in the past.
And now I know the Gift is love;
It is mercy and it’s grace
And it started when Christ came to earth
To a lowly stable place.
A Mother’s Memories
Christ hung, bruised and badly beaten, upon dark Calvary’s tree.
He’d willingly walked Golgotha’s way to gain man’s liberty.
His mother, Mary, watched her son; she could not hold her tears.
She could not stop the memories of His earthly thirty years.
She remembered when the angel told that she would be with child.
She said that she would do God’s will in a voice so meek and mild.
She thought of that first Christmas day when her son arrived on earth,
How the shepherds told that a heavenly choir proclaimed His royal birth.
And then the wise men came to Him with gifts of worth untold -
Some myrrh, and then some frankincense and gifts of purest gold.
Her mind returned to his childhood days as He grew into a man,
And went about His earthly tasks to fulfill His Father’s plan.
She thought of that Canaan wedding when water turned to wine;
It was only at her bidding that He’d performed that act divine.
And now she saw Him hanging on the cross, with thorny crown;
His hands and feet and side were pierced and His scarlet blood flowed down.
She remembered when, as a little boy, those hands had been at rest
As He slept upon his pillow, and how she had been blessed
When sometimes He would grasp her face and look into her eyes,
And say, I love you, Mommy!
. Those times were Mary’s prize.
She remembered how His feet would race along the street at play,
And how she stored up in her heart all the moments of each day,
For she had always recalled that the angel said He’d die
In order that, with sacrifice, man’s hell-damned soul He’d buy.
She thought of His disciples, who were like brothers to her son,
And knew how much they’d miss Him when the torture was all done.
He whispered, Father, it is done.
through a voice racked with great