Sips from a Chipped Cup: A Pilgrim’S Love

By Richard D. Toots

How can you capture a heart and commit it to a page? Sips from a Chipped Cup: A Pilgrims Love presents an inspiring collection of poems written by Richard Toots and filled with the inspiration and emotion that accompanies his walk with Jesus Christ. In the almost forty years that Toots has walked with his Lord Jesus Christ, he has found that, though he falls often, Jesus Christ is always faithful. Through his verse, he endeavours to show the loving kindness to others that Jesus Christ has shown to him and to share his wonderful relationship with Jesus Christ with others. In his poems, from Jesus Loves More to All My Rainbows, he explores his love for Jesus Christ and marvels at the beauty and forgiveness he infuses into our lives every day.

Take a few minutes to sit back, raise this chipped cup, and enjoy the heartfelt poetry from Sips from a Chipped Cup: A Pilgrims Love.

Walk the Path

Walk the well-worn path
Lit by prayer
And by Gods word
Set aflame.

Witness the Gospel
Of your dear Lord
O, child
Love the name.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: May 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466944862

Richard D. Toots

Richard D. Toots grew up in the small seaside village of Deep Cove in North Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was surrounded by mountains, sea, and forest. Jesus Christ found him there at the age of seventeen. Richard now lives in Aldergrove with his wife, Karen, and their two dogs.

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Sips

I have an old

And battered cup

Chips worn down

By gentle care.

From this

I most delight

To sip

When I flee the burdens

That I bare.

It reminds me

Of my fragile stance;

My very feeble frame.

Of the grace

Of God poured out

On those who call

On Jesus’s name.

It remindes me that

I am but clay

In Father potter’s hands.

A vessel set aside

To reach and bless the land.

I’m reminded

When I see these chips

Of the covenant of grace.

That not by my own merit

Some day I’ll see your face.

Then this cup

Shall overflow

Of what you’ve

Placed within.

A tempered, purified

Heart of love

Devoid of all my sin.

Then I shall see

With unveiled face

What all before me saw.

The fullness of your glory

And be consumed in awe.

Walk The Path

Walk the well warn path

Lit by prayer

And by God’s word

Set aflame.

Witness the Gospel

Of your dear Lord

O’ child

Love the name.

Repent my child

Each day. each night

Walk in Christ

Keep him in sight.

Walk this true path

On your knees

Love your Jesus

More than these.

Hate your sin

That fleshly work

But your soul

Do not despise.

If you could only

See yourself

As God does

Through loving eyes.

Hear It Beating

Hear it beating in the street

There’s people he wants you to

meet

Listen to the heart of God

Put your candle well in sight

Take the bushel from your light

Listen to the heart of God

He’s commanded you to go

So, why are you so slow?

How else will they know?

Listen to the heart of God

O’ Christian, draw near

He wants you to hear

You are his joy, delight

So, go shine forth his light

Listen to the heart of God

Why can’t you see

What you should be

The lost are a sea

Listen to the heart of God

Reach to the lost

Preach to the soul

Teach to the mind

Listen to the heart of God

Jesus Loves More

Lovely people

Lives torn apart by war

Love them deeply

Jesus loves them more.

Little children

Dying the world over

Love them desperately

Jesus loves them more.

Sick and dying

Hearts weary and sore

Love them with compassion

Jesus loves them more.

Broken, stumbling, falling brothers

Love them prostrate

On the floor

Delighting in

This certain knowledge

That Jesus loves them more.

Pray for and comfort

Widows, orphans

Open every door

Serve them at

Your inconvience

Jesus loves them more.

Saints who walked

This lonesome valley

Loving Jesus over and over

Walk now holy

In his presence

But Jesus loves them more.

Those who irritate you

And those you think a bore

Love them without malice

Jesus loves them