Saturday, October 28, 2006

THE BLESSED STRENGTH of YOUNG MANHOOD and YOUNG WOMANHOOD

The blessed strength
Of young manhood
And young womanhood
Can be a blessing for all,
If movies and TV-land don’t
Cause their fall
Into an evil trap!
Then, their strength
Is sapped, and then
They are no good
For even themselves -
But, especially for others!

So in youth or age you will be wise,
To follow the Lord Jesus
To win strength’s prize!


- Jo Jean Decristoforo -
Memorial Day 5/29/2006

DO YOU REALLY CARE?

Do you really care?
In a way
It’s a pretty good test
If Jesus is there
Hidden away in your heart!

True care becomes part
Of your soul
And your life’s goal!

True care
Blesses all
(And especially yourself),
As you act
To care for and to serve others.

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
February 1, 2006

GOD’S VENUE FOR US

God’s venue for us,
Surprise, surprise! -
Is this fallen world
With all it’s lies!

But the devil is defeated -
We MUST realize -
So his lies cannot harm us
When marching bravely forward
Under the Holy Spirit’s watchful eyes!

That’s how the battle is won,
And it’s really fun -
As we follow Jesus’ Way -
Defeating the devil,
In this world’s tough venue
Doing it God’s Way!


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -

Friday, October 27, 2006

PATHOLOGICALLY BUSY

Pathologically busy -
Think about that phrase -
All of its ramifications
Will put you in a daze!

It’s a daze of NO recovery -
As the Sabbath is lost -
And we lose ourselves too!
What a terrible cost!

Over busyness is the sickness
Of our modern times -
Destroying bodies and lives,
All at the same time.

No time for God -
Beware, it’s a terrible snare,
It rots out your soul -
And sends you straight to Sheol.

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -

LOOK FOR THE GOOD

Look for the good -
And throw out the bad -
That’s all to be had
Of God’s goodness!

If asked every day,
Christ will show
You the way,
To look for His good
And throw out the bad.
Then turn it over to Him,
And refuse to be sad.


Jo Jean DeCristoforo

HEAVEN IS A REAL PLACE

Heaven is a real place
Where they love your face
And are busy making a place
‘Specially for you
At the end of your race.

Jesus is waiting for you
With a wonderful place -
A mansion with plenty of space.

He has your loved ones
Waiting to see
Your dear face.

So keep on Jesus’ way
‘Til the end of your stay.

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
January 24, 2006

EDSEL

He was bold and handsome
With hair wavy gold,
His blue eyes lashed with dark gold, too.
Eyes full of wit and humor -
Intelligence, too, and kindness.
With Jesus in his soul
He lived out this goal
Blessed by God
Wherever he trod.


Poem by his wife
_ Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
November 20, 2005

THOSE GOOD WILL CELLS

Those good will cells
Seem now to say
Their godless evolutionary scientists
Have lost their way:
Their hopeful ‘string theory’
No longer holds sway -
(Too small to measure) -
Going no where no how!

Then to add double
To their trouble -
Their godless god:
N - SANDAM:
(natural selection and neutral drift and mutation)
Has gone away -
Taken a powder
Or in a chowder!


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -

THE PSYCHIATRIC PILL

The psychiatric pill
Is here to stay
To cure every ill:
Bad, sad, or too glad!

God’s personality rejected,
Humanity perfected,
By glorious chemistry!

Confusion reigns -
Are you really you?
And am I
Really me?

God’s “sound mind” Scripture:
2Tim. 1:7 left out -
HIS healing power in doubt,
Exchanged for man’s
Experimental chemistry
Via that psychiatric pill,
Which will
Cure every ill.

But will we
Still be ourselves,
Or will we be
A walking, talking chemistry?


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

FEMINAZIS

Feminazis’ highest priority,
When they are in
Some kind of authority,
Is the right to abort their babies!!

Abortion is solely
Their right -
As if men were
Not even in sight,
And had not a single right
As a father!

Abortion on call
Shows us all
Why feminists
Can now be called
Feminazis!

God and man are left
Out on a limb,
Both totally unneeded!

“You’ve come a long
Way baby!!” -
(You’ve wrecked everything -
Even your own expression!)

Lord have mercy!!!

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
2/10/2006

JESUS IS THE WHOLE BALL OF WAX

Jesus is the whole ball of wax
And that’s just part of the true facts.

He made the Creation, it consists of Him -
Beauty, TRUTH, Justice, without any sin.

He is God’s Central Person in this beautiful place
Bringing the gift of salvation to the human race -
To those who will accept Him and see His grace.

No wonder He is “All in all” as the Bible states,
And men without number have learned not to hate,
But to try to love each other
Be kind and good
Even to the rascals in the neighborhood.

Peace on earth and blessings for all
Who truly commit to follow His call.


Written by a “Jesus freak from the God squad.”

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
April 30, 2004

IN JESUS’ NAME

Everything should be done
In Jesus’ name!
Throughout the ages,
It’s still the same.

Since the Fall,
Blessing all,
That glorious name!

How can thanks
Be adequately given
For such a gift as this?

Only a life’s devotion -
Its goodness set in motion,
By God’s own Hand -
In Jesus’ lovely name.


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -

DELIGHTFUL OLD AGE

I am now in delightful old age
Currently now, all the rage!

Trendy to be old,
But never too bold -
Charming and fun -
Lifting all’s spirits,
One by one.

No sign of weakness allowed -
Not in this unrealistic crowd -
Everything jolly -
No talk of folly!!

Old age glorified
Negatives all denied -
Keep young -
Or you’re fried!!

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -

What Is Love?

Do I need to know?
Do I need it to grow?
God’s answer is, yes!
Sent from Above
And His answer IS LOVE!!

Let us love
As we are loved,
In beauty and good,
Following Jesus’ loving Way
For a really great day -
BECAUSE, GOD IS LOVE!


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

A SOLDIER’S PRAYER (Those born again in Jesus)

Here I am, O God -
Alone with you in this vastness,
Trying to serve and follow Thy will
And do my duty to God and Country.
How alone I am in this crowd of men of all kinds,
Steeling myself to do my work,
(Like soldiers of old) -
Bearing still within the
Glorious image You gave mankind,
(This crown of His Creation) -
To fight for right - no matter how gloomy
The place or condition.
To cry out for strength and courage,
To learn to help and love my comrades.
This is the cry of my heart
And my prayer.


Jo Jean DeCristoforo
September 11, 2002

WHAT IS GOOD?

What is good?
God IS good!
Why?
Because He loves
You and I!
God IS LOVE!!

He created us
To have someone to love!

He and we
Need love to live,
Or we die.

Love’s a great mystery
Only God can say
How or why!

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
11/05

NOBODY THINKS

Nowadays nobody thinks
As they hurdle along -
Pell-mell into the throng!

Thinking of no one
But themselves -
Or how to get along
With other folks -
That others have needs
And are struggling too -
It never occurs in this sad stew!

Decide to think of others
As along you go,
Life will get sweeter,
You will find it so!


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
January 16, 2006

JESUS IS HOPE

Jesus is hope
And hope we must have!
For the wounds of the soul,
A healing salve.

So go forward with hope -
With Christ leading the way
He’s your hope for the day.

We can’t live without hope,
So live with Jesus each day.


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
1/23/2006

FOR A GOOD LIFE

To: David

For a good life
Learn to:
---Earn your own way,
---Serve others,
---Love God!

Fundamentals these are,
Follow them and
You will go far.


Jo Jean DeCristoforo
---10/11/06

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

DYING AT HOME

Dying at home
Can be simple -
If we let it be so!

All that is needed (if bedridden),
Is a little tender care,
And to be kept reasonably clean -
And a sip of water or food
Here and there.

Often turned,
And a light massage,
And talked to gently.
Then all pain must be covered -
To keep one sane.

For the dying Christian,
Favorite scriptures read
Will show the Way Home.

Perfect Love cast
Out fear -
Jesus and God and the Holy Spirit -
Will be near their dear!!


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
May 12, 2006

A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL (OR BOY)

A beautiful young girl (or boy)
Is a “wonderous thing” -
Like God’s promise of spring
Beauty only God could bring!
To be treasured and protected,
Not to be seen as sin’s obvious prey.

God’s way is best -
Even young beauty does show.

So choose Jesus’ way -
It’s the only “way to go” -
Protecting and guarding youth’s path!


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo –
1/15/2006

WE LIVE IN OUR MINDS

We live in our minds
Don’t you see!
So, why not
Live there with God
And His Salvation and Grace?
It is the best place -
Full of beauty and good.
It is the best place
In the whole “neighborhood”,
Full of love, joy and mirth
All because of Jesus’ Birth!

So, live with Jesus and God
There in your mind!
It’s the only place to be
Don’t you see?
It’s living by the Scriptures.


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
8/2006

ALL HAIL THE PHONE!

(with a bow to Alexander Graham Bell and Don Ameche)


All hail the phone!
With it -
You’re never alone!
It’s the greatest invention
Ever known!

Old and young alike
Would soon
Go on strike
If deprived
Of their phone!

A chat here
A chat there-
Together, we are
Not alone -
Hands off my phone!



- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
April 6, 2006

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

SEX, WRECKED

Marital, long-lasting passion
Is not now the fashion -
Having been replaced
By a tepid, nauseating grind -
Easy to find
Some whore nearby
At her or his place.

Sex has been wrecked -
Jesus’ rules rejected -
His WAY neglected!

This social rot
Will bring our
Nation down-
Town by town -
Unless Christianity
Does abound.

Jesus’ sex rules show the right way!
He, Himself, IS THE WAY!

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
March 23, 2006

ONCE AGAIN, TEACH US TO PRAY

Once again, teach us to pray
For living IS PRAYING.
The Jews say working is praying.
God and Jesus, are also saying:
Praying is everything in life!
Yes, it is also,
All In All!
It reverses the Fall!

Hallelujah, to the Lamb of God!


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
January 24, 2006

Monday, October 16, 2006

HOMOSEXUAL, HOMOSEXUAL

Homosexual, homosexual,
How lost you are -
Way out beyond the furthest star!
Wandering, lost in empty space -
Hardly part of the human race.
Bone lonely, in disgrace,
Ever questing a legitimate place!
A rebel searching for honest grace.

Oh, the pain of being lost!!
No one knows the terrific cost -
Only the one who’s chosen that path,
Only the one who’s chosen God’s wrath.
Jesus alone can save such a one,
End the lostness and the pain,
And take away the fatal stain.

Come to Him - lost no more!!
And find the love and fellowship
You were created for.

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo –
4-7-04

THIS “TRADITIONAL” WOMAN

This “traditional” woman
Loves the way
God made men -
Exactly made perfect for women.
This “traditional” woman
Is going
God and Jesus’ way home.

This “traditional” woman
Is content
As God made her -
A helping wife and mother -
Completing her man
Of her dreams
In her role
That’s heaven sent!


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
7/26/2006

GOD’S RULES

We don’t just break
God’s rules,
We break ourselves!

That’s why we are all
Such fools,
‘ Til we follow Jesus!

Otherwise we are dead in sin -
Searching, wandering, empty within,
Never to win!

Love and real life are lost -
What a terrible cost! -
For not following God’s rules.

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
Fall 2005

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Michael Newdow

Michael Newdow is my friend,
Pray his atheism will end,
And he will find,
Jesus as his best friend!

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo –

KITTIES

God made them for us
Without much fuss
But lots of plus:
Funny, playful and cute -
Sometimes astute!
Loving and loyal,
Easy to spoil -
Serious,
Always mysterious!

Devoted, and ALL MINE!!
Surely, a spark of the Divine,
Only God could create
Such a wonderous creature!
With kitties, the main feature!

‘Cept for dogs and frogs,
Rats or gerbils,
Elephants, horses, etc.,
Only part of God’s plan -
As a big blessing for man!


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
January 30, 2006

THINK LOSING

Eat small and think losing,
The pounds will roll off --
It is all in the choosing.

See each small bite as a delight,
Who needs ‘tons’ for the pleasing.

One small bite of a fav. dessert
Will linger, and be enough
To slack the craving,
And soothe the raving for more.

Psych yourself out,
I always say --
Athletes do --
And it DOES PAY!!
Losing is choosing!!

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo –
9-15-04

MEDICAL FADS

Medical fads
Can turn into cads
And deal health a blow -
(Hard to recover from -
Then maybe we’re done!)

Half-baked medicine
Is worse than none!


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

CONFIDENCE

Confidence in self? –
Or confidence in God? –
See it both of these ways –
And you will be glad!

Confidence is a balance of these two! –
Hard to attain, but true!

Aim to become
A balanced woman or man,
Then serve God
The very best you can!

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
Fall 2005

GOD’S BLESSED SLEEP

There is a reward
At the end of the day -
God’s blessed sleep.

It is a trip to mystery deep -
God’s way of bringing healing
For daily cares
That came stealing
Our store of courage and strength.

Quick as quicksilver
Faster than light -
At the ending of day
God comes to me as I pray.

Healing my soul -
A promise He will keep -
As I lay down myself
For His glorious sleep.

Healing wounds unending
With balm for their tending.
A gift that keeps giving
Through happiness or weeping -
It’s God’s Blessed Sleep !

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
Fall 2005

WOMEN ARE NOT MEN

Feminazis
Why so called?
Because the Feminists
Tried to push on all of us
Their own idea
Of how we were created:
Not by God,
As Mother Eve
But by cells in
That “primordial soup”.

Only God could take
That divine difference
Of man and woman,
Then proceed to make
One divine complimentary entity - marriage:
Strong, long lasting, fun
And mutually great!

Cells only can make
A bi-sexual mess
No one would want,
Neither woman or man,
So stick with God’s plan.

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo –
2/10/2006

THERE’S PAIN IN LAUGHTER

There’s pain in laughter
Clever comics do say
And they are right-
Some part of suffering is there.

Hidden pain and laughter
Are inextricably bound,
So be careful in
What you are after
When dealing in laughter.

Be aware if there’s pain,
And try to be kind
To the sufferer.

Jo Jean DeCristoforo
January 19, 2006

Friday, October 06, 2006

A GOOD MOTHER AND FATHER

A good mother and father
Are God’s best gift
He has to give us!

Fathers, loving, strong,
Tender and balanced should be,
Faithful and full of good common sense.

Mothers, suffering and
Loving unconditionally,
With unselfish love and care.

A good mother and father
Are forever there!

So let’s give great honor

To them both!


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -

MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN

Man’s inhumanity to man
Is a fearful thing -
Its horrible sting
Could only derive
From man’s Biblical Fall.

See God’s Scriptures as True.
You’ll begin to see thru
To the good v.s. evil in man
That brings on man’s inhumanity to man.

Then you can see
God’s remedy:
It’s The Lord Jesus Christ’s
Sacrifice on the cross tree,
Redeeming man’s Fall
And defeating man’s evil ways!

Jo Jean DeCristoforo
January 28, 2006

IT’S NOT THE CHURCH

It’s not the church
That saves you,
It’s Jesus in your heart -
Put there by
God’s Holy Spirit
Right from the start.

It’s this world’s most
Precious gift!
Free, from the Lord Jesus Christ -
It is His Glorious Salvation!!

– Jo Jean DeCristoforo –
January 2006

Thursday, October 05, 2006

EMPTY PLATITUDES ARE BORING

Empty platitudes are boring!
I have always hated
The word “boring”
Because dear unknowing children
Have had great fun
Announcing to feckless
Parents: “THAT’S BOOOORING”!

God’s marvelously constructed
World is EXCITING - NEVER “boring” -
Children need
To hear that from some
Responsible, caring adults
(Preferably their parents
If they are so fortunate
To have them).

So empty platitudes ARE
Boring because they are a bunch
Of hot air saying nothing
Helpful for life.
They are just a monstrosity
Chuck full of pomposity.


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
February 2006

BE YOURSELF

Be yourself
Just as God made you!
What else can you do?
For your self shows thru!

Show God’s best that you feel –
People will see you are real,
And you will bless them
By just being you!

Be yourself,
It’s all you have to offer!

Jo Jean DeCristoforo

SOMETHING OF VALUE

I have something of value
To share -
Before becoming lighter than air -
It’s knowing Jesus’ Salvation and joy,
And His lifelong care.

This gift - so rare
Is what I want to share -
A life worth living
Full of love, strength, and giving -
Truly something of value to share!


Jo Jean DeCristoforo

PRETENDING ABOUT MONEY

Pretending about money
Is really funny -
And stupid, too!

In our fallen world
Money has its place -
Balanced under God
It should be,
And fills its proper space.
Not foremost, but important,
In God’s human race.

So, don’t pretend money is nothing -
It does have its subordinate place -
Blessing and serving
God’s human race.

- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -

HAPPY WITH JESUS

I’m not really better than anyone else,
I’m just me,
One of Jesus’ children
With a soul set free.

With Jesus as Savior,
Onward I tread -
“One beggar telling another beggar
Where there is bread” -
Christ, Bread of Life I know.

Living each day given
On my way to Heaven!
Free to serve Him
As best I can - and
“Not being false
To any man.”


Jo Jean DeCristoforo
November 2005

MARRIAGE

God’s wonderful plan
For His woman and man!!
Full of joy and pleasure
If constructed His way,
With the
Lord Jesus as a guide –
It’s life’s best ride!

But Jesus is needed,
For you to become
Better than you ARE!!
So let His Way be heeded,
To find all the pleasure
Of God’s great treasure –
MARRIAGE!!

It’s the building block of society

Jo Jean DeCristoforo

A MATTER OF LOVE

A matter of love
Runs very, very deep!!
Piercing and conquering
The soul!!

A ray supreme –
God given from above
With victory its goal!

Never to be forgotten
Even at Being’s bottom –
Is His mystery of love.

Jo Jean DeCristoforo

REAL PEACE OF MIND

Real peace of mind
Is a wonderful thing
Only our Jesus can bring!
It wells up in the mind and soul
Like a beautiful crystal spring,
Like a pure
Stream of peace
Flooding the soul.
It refreshes and renews
Its goal:
Jesus making you whole!


- Jo Jean DeCristoforo -
January 23, 2006