Erling Thu

Category: Poems

  • Pushing yourself forward

    To be somebody is to push yourself forward
    It is to lift your head above the mass
    Avoiding being choked by the boring sameness of sin
    Or being imprisoned by accepted rules
    It is to make yourself free from conventional views
    As you follow the Truth in ministering Grace
    Liberating people around you to breathe freely
    Even in the hostile environment of consumerism
    As they keep looking steadily into God’s perfect law
    – the law that sets people free

  • The honest person

    To be somebody
    is to be honest
    to know that the truth
    holds liberating power
    the honest person
    can walk with his head lifted high
    look his neighbour into his eyes
    in confident joy
    the honest person
    owns a treasure of integrity
    more worth than all the wealth in the world

  • Eating orange

    To be somebody
    is to eat an orange
    in wonder and worship

  • Rejoicing

    To be somebody
    is to rejoice
    in small things
    in the ordinary days
    and let the joy
    brighten up life

  • Laughing

    To be somebody
    is to laugh
    good and heartily
    of small events
    and embrace life
    in young laughter

  • Smiling to life

    To be somebody
    is to smile to life
    and all you encounter
    in such a way that
    all the bad things drown
    in trust and faith

  • To sing

    To be somebody is to sing
    in major and minor
    in joy and sorrow
    in longing and despair
    to let life be a song
    and all events be
    the music and rhythm
    that give the song life

  • Having young people for dinner

    To be somebody is having young people
    Eating dinner with you in your home
    And enjoying their company
    Sharing our life with one another
    As we talk of many different aspects
    Of our life with God and our families

    To be somebody is enjoying
    Interaction with grown up people
    Belonging to a different generation
    That could have been our own children
    But not noticing age at all
    Because we all enjoy being God’s children
    Having fun together
    Appreciating one another’s company

  • Being married

    To be somebody is to be married
    Because marriage is a risky enterprise
    To marry is to dare to commit yourself
    – to another person for life just because of love
    To marry is to renounce a life of sovereign decision making
    And to embrace the views and opinions of another person
    Before any decisions are made – together!
    To marry is to dare to open up your life
    And fully share it with the one you love!

    To be somebody is to stay married
    In spite of differences and conflicting interests
    In the faithfulness and loyalty of love
    You will find strength and wisdom
    To overcome the biggest obstacles
    And fight through the battles to win the war of Love
    By laying down your life
    To make your marriage partner happy

    To be somebody is being married
    And enjoy every minute
    As you find your way – together

  • Moving soil in a wheelbarrow

    To be somebody is to move soil
    To reshape your garden
    And transform a hill sloop
    Into a vegetable garden
    By the use of a wheelbarrow

    To be somebody is to look at the heap of soil
    Brought to you by three big trucks
    And dumped in front of your house
    And behold beautiful fruits and vegetables
    In stead of black soil
    As you fill the wheelbarrow to move the heap
    To create a fruitful garden

    To be somebody is to use a wheelbarrow
    To start a new life of fruitfulness