I will hold you in the light. I will hold you in the light.YOU.Who feels hollowed, you who feels as if wholeness was long ago swallowed and the only hallowed ground around you is littered with broken dreams and empty explanations of what might have been, what could have been, what should have been. The […]
September’s Bidding
September asks me to slowTo savor skies and sunsetsSip coffee and soak in sunshine September says “Let’s open our palms and listen closer,Let’s open windows and waft in the first refresh of the next season, Let’s sit in the soft sixties dawn and not reach for a sweater quite yet. September appreciates presence and creates […]
What If….
What if…..the days and minutes allowed us a bit more space to sit with wonder….to wander through August….to read during the sweltering afternoons and stretch the summer evenings into places to ponder? What if….we wrote out gratitude lists and also acknowledged the hovering anxiety lodged in our body….. became curious rather than critical…..searched for the […]
Stopping By Fields On a Harvest Afternoon
*my apologies to Robert Frost Whose fields these are I think I know.His house sits there across the road.And we are in the combine here.To watch it cut row after row. We knew that harvest hovered near The cycle of another year. With sweeping fields of golden grainAnd cloudless skies all blue and clear. The tractor trundles […]
Tall Like The Trees
I Didn’t Ask To Feel
I felt the ache – I felt the tug – I didn’t ask to feel. Depression knocked and I said no,She came in anyway. I felt despairThe angst and acheA turmoil roiled inside. A panic and anxiety,Please let me disappear. I didn’t ask to feel this- I do not want to feel this- Please take […]
A Dagger Called…
Have you read Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis? My Book Club Society is currently reading it. Fascinating. I’m still undecided on all my thoughts and feelings about it, but we have had some GLORIOUS discussions. So thought-provoking. At the end of the fifteenth chapter, I placed myself in Orual’s robes and these are […]
Light Always Pierces Darkness
Palpitating. Pounding. Penetrating.Creeping. Crawling. Corrupting.Foreboding.Disturbed. Dismayed. Discombobulated.Anxious. Agitated. Apprehensive.Troubled. Snaking around and under and through.Shrouding everything it encounters.Sinister limbs lurch and reach.Fear pounds in brave chestsAnd courage claws surfaceward.Breath breaks in scant bursts. It wears oppressive doom as an accessory.A snarl, menace, sneer as make-up.Shadows as eyeshadow to overshadow.Spines tremble. We cringe. Hearts falter.Souls shudder and […]
Wandering and Wondering in My Yard Tonight
I wandered in my yard tonight.Gave solemn thanks for glorious light.I wondered in my yard tonight.Of His redeeming love and might..I wandered in my yard tonight.A loyal dog friend at my side.I wondered in my yard tonight.Of Jesus’ whisper, soft, “Abide.”.I wandered in my yard tonight.Admired dahlias blooming bright.I wondered in my yard tonight.He looks […]
I Want the Infusion of Jesus in My Life
I want the infusion of Jesus in my life. For this is the leaven of life. Not the profession of Him.Not the profession of Christianity.Not nicely summed up in a little meme. Not the confession of Jesus.Not confession alone.Not nicely coined words and phrases. Certainly not the pretension of Jesus. A house of cards testimony.Woven […]
Maddie’s Christmas Pie
The bell twinkles on the shop door,As it swings open wide,A sugar-sweet aroma,Greets Maddie from inside She loves The Flaky Pie Shop,A pastry pie boutique,Choosing all the Christmas pies,The highlight of the week! Maddie claps her hands with joy, And presses ‘gainst the case,Pies, pies, pies, lined up inside!She smiles with happiness. Which will you […]
Jesus King My Everything
My heart it aches, my head is bowed Clenched fists so tight, Do I know how? To open up these palms, relax? Come to Him and simply ask? For sweet relief from striving to, Do it all and do, do, do, And pause instead, remembering, He bore the nails so long ago, And died a […]
Season My Words With Kind
Lord, guard my mouth, Control my speech, Season my words with kind. Let peace and goodness flow through me, Renew my soul and mind. Direct my tongue, the words I speak, Love poured upon them all, So I may bless, not cause distress, to others, grown or small. Lord, help me to refrain from speech, […]
Faithful Forever
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them – the Lord, who remains faithful forever!!! ~ Psalm 146:5-6 F ather A bba I mmeasurable Love T rustworthy H ighly exalted F eels my […]
Play On
Play on. . . Bow hums across the violin. Fingers press piano keys. Guitar pick finds guitar strings. . . Play on. . . Pen pressed on paper. Keyboard taps. Canvas waiting, empty, blank. . . Play on. . . Scrubbing at the stuck on spots. Corralling clutter everywhere. Folding tidy washcloth squares. . . […]
Praise and Promises in My Lord
I praise you Lord, for You are good. I bow in humble, grateful gratitude, You fill me up and pour me out and fill me up again-Amen. Oh, thank-you Lord, my Savior King, And Spirit-led, my heart it sings, For You ARE good, you hear my sighs, You steady me and calm my cries, My […]
Nonsense and Dr. Seuss and June Already
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” ~ Dr. Seuss Ah, yes, Dr. Seuss, I so […]