A writing friend recently invited me to keep a thirty-day gratitude journal. To identify every day what I am grateful for, notice the surprising lessons and blessings, contemplate life minus those good things, and journal for about twenty minutes each evening to give praise and thanks to God. How do I view God and theContinue reading “A Gift of Gratitude”
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Easter Blessings
Where e’er your road might lead you No matter the twists of your path May goodness and mercy go with you Encourage your every step Through cloudy days or bright ones Whether dim or glaring strong May the truth of Christ’s Resurrection Wash you in new song May your weary soul be lifted And whiskedContinue reading “Easter Blessings”
The Melting Snowman
When it feels like life is meltingDespite sunny days When storms and rains lash fiercely Drain strength fast away ‘Tis then our God our Father Creator of our days Is catching all the drippings Tears coursing in a race And like the melting snowman Whose face beams joy and play In blessing or in meltingContinue reading “The Melting Snowman”
Hope Deferred
Waiting with prayerful petition Goes on forever at times Months slow turn into decades Years roll languidly byHeart sick heavy with sorrowRefusing to heal, to mend A shroud of heaviness hangingMulling its way in the dim Why yet no answers so wanted Those heartfelt cries to aboveOh to see the great picture See with God’sContinue reading “Hope Deferred”
Seas of White
Purity glisteningSunlight reflecting Shimmering crystals From iced boughs and skyMiniature angelsDancing and twirlingTransforming landscapeTo vast seas of white They spread and they cover Hovering o’er all usAround the whole world Seen by cleared eyes Look now, imagine Snowfields a’glazing ‘Neath wings’ a’stirring As angels pass by Messengers bringing Good News and courage Promises changeless InContinue reading “Seas of White”
At the New Year
Hush…Stop the noise and listenSilence the numbing soundsGod calls for our attention Let holiness come down Hear Abba’s Words eternal Infusing to our soulsThe Spirit’s holy whisperings Brings life to make us whole Wait upon His strengtheningDeeper to greater need Be still and know that He is God Oh hear Yeshua speak Teach us LORDContinue reading “At the New Year”
A Holy Dance
Pirouetting on full point She was a whirling top Held position in her placeUntil the spinning stopped With graceful leaping far from it Arching high into the airFlying free, loosed from her trap Where she had entwined there Such abandon was the danceFrom winding into freeEnergy swirled tightly closeThen flung out joyously Reflection of earth’sContinue reading “A Holy Dance”
Dew Upon The Arbor 