On the bus

Sitting on the bus home,
while the rain drops drum against the window.

Filtering through my thoughts,

Thinking of words to write.

“Me, rain, wet, late, tired, home, bed, TV, thanks, God” are a few that popped into my mind.

Then I remember in all things I am to give thanks.

Well today, I got job rejection,

Borrowed my bus fare,

then gave out my change for tomorrows bus,

Got soaked in rain while I ran to the bus stop,

then missed the bus!

Now an hour later, am on the bus home thinking of words to write.

In all things give thanks

So am thankful because after the rain, I’ll have a roof,

For journey mercies,

That I can even feel the rain on my skin,

and that I didn’t catch a cold.
That I have a warm bed and the grace to see today.

Too often these things are taken for granted, and all our eyes notice are the things that oppose our plans.

I have come to this understanding, that the rain will fall, the sun will dry it up, the young will grow, and sometimes bad things happen, but they’ll never outweigh the good.

Situation may change you or you can change your situation.

The seasons will change whether we are joyful or full of self pity.

So I release my pen to write my words, discerning in my heart their usefulness. 


©SweetestRuby 2010

Educate Me

It’s been around for decades,

People learn new things everyday

But what have you learned this week?

My 4 year old niece said when asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she wanted to be Cheryl Cole.

Not like Cheryl Cole,

Since she could be whatever she put I mind to

She’d magically transform into this picture perfect person at 21.

Not realizing that the texture of her hair,

And colour of her skin not only told the story of her past,

But had a little to do with her future.

So what have u learned today?

That a pop star is back in rehab

Or that Hollywood star left his wife

Or the erratic weight chart of tv personalities.

We know more about celebrity lifestyles, than our own

When asked what’s your favorite colors

I hear its nude ‘because the lady goes gaga for it’.

We listen to Obama and Cameron

And complain about the changes

But too lazy to do anything about it

Anyway the laws won’t be in place for another 10 yrs

Just in time for Junior to suffer the brute.

‘Education isn’t everything’… I hear

The modern world needs entertainment!

A needed distraction while the government sends the country to hell

In the days of old,

The people where rightly educated by the God they worshipped

I guess it the same these days

Not much has changed

Cos I know what u worship

What we all do

What gives us comfort, assurance and encouragement by a flick

Like a shrine, it’s taken center stage in our homes

Every seat arranged strategically directly straight for daily reference

But Iet’s choose to rebel!

Against fashion, and home décor norm.

 I’ll tell my kids, in times of emergency switch off the box and open the book!

Cos Obama and Cameron will lie

Your trust can not be in any one man

Or tattooed freaks, with bronze or gold teeth,

No, it won’t be better after a couple more drinks

But in the God who created man!

Let me educate you that u may live long

In an emergency dial P.R.A.Y-2-J.E.S.U.S


©SweetestRuby 2010

An Education on EVE

Genesis 5:2 'Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.'

Formed from man, but created by God.

In the image of God, His replica on earth.

Not an after thought

Made off two equal parts, both becoming one

 Both given dominion

Above land, above sea, the most supreme of all creation.

And although only him was banished from the garden,

But like the support that she is,

She stuck by her man.

Despite his demotion,

She kept him in motion

Never letting him slip.

Yes, though she fell when tempted

But he fell too!

Sinned because of her ignorance,

For wisdom was all she sought.

Blamed by her protector,

Who beside her stood idle.

Sentenced to a life of sorrow,

Not knowing her tomorrow,

But except that her joys’ would be birthed through pain.

When all she craved was knowledge.

Her passion was for his heart,

For from his rib she was created.  

Not his feet to be trampled on,

Or his back to be ignored,

Or his head to be dominating.

But the bone that protects his heart.

Like the Holy Spirit is the closest to God heart.

She functions in the same capacity

From grace to grass was not what she expected,

But Eve the ’source of life’

She fulfilled her destiny

She birthed mankind

The original first lady.

Standing tall in the face of dys-functionality

 When what once brought her joy now birthed more pain.

Face to face with death, none like she had experienced before

One young son dead in one arm

While with the other waving goodbye to her banished heir.

Still her faith was not shaken!

The mother of faithfulness

For she remembered the words of her maker

‘That her son will crush her head of her enemy’

Holding on to nothing but faith, she birthed the son that would lead us to Christ.

The way, the truth and the life.


©SweetestRuby 2010