There will be days when you are interacting online and you will feel lonely and shunned and question whether you are making any difference at all. That’s okay. It’s the emotional cost of being a messenger of grace in a foreign land. ~@stickyJesus Lord help me be a reflection of you a messenger of grace […]
Monday Meditation: No Strings Attached
He set aside His rights clothed self in clay to show the Father’s love. No strings attached. He spat love on clumps of clay and smeared eyes once blind that now can see. No strings attached. He ladled love on feet bruised and clay cracked God knelt to meet our need No strings attached. He […]
Window on Writing: The Shelter of His Presence
Thou has made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee. ~St. Augustine Restless one pursued by fear homeless and alone spill your pain like water make room for overflowing joy unending blessing and come home for in the shelter of His presence there is peace […]
Friday Fuel for the Weekend: Light
It starts as a hint of hope, a thin thread of red at the hem of the horizon that gives way to an ever-widening pink streamer. New day birthed in a candle glow that nudges black. The sun climbs the steps of night and peeks over peak. Breath clouds billow and dissolve. Ribbons of light […]
Friday Fuel for the Weekend: Hope
Hope Rises heavy under a misty veil i see dimly until startled by a cardinal on a naked branch and hope rises on scarlet wings. ~Sandra Heska King (2010) Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops . . . at all. […]
Window on Writing: Cracked for Light
The cracks are how the light shines in, and it is only by remaining aware of imperfection that we remain open to redemption and reform. ~Leonard Cohen hidden heart room veiled from sight until the light breaks through the curtain cracked flames bright reveals the dirt that melts in muddy rivers cleanses and creates beauty […]
Saturday Snaps: A Baby Visits
The night hours creep through jangled sleep of beeps and bubbles lights and voices strangled by a crumpled sheet a slew of tubes every breath a challenge press a button take a pill pull it out put it back push it under shed a tear stabbed by pain smoothed and soothed with a cold cloth […]
First Snow
soft no flurry at the feeders no song in the air no footprints to follow just brushed wet kisses and manna whispers still Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Psalm 51:7 (NIV) Adding my words to other poets at One Shot Wednesday. And […]
Bread
Lines of breadless bellies and moldy dreams black blizzard coming in the bread basket breadwinner lost dusty hope. Hungry children chew on hands because it’s not my day to eat waste not, want not let’s play eviction. Some buy what they can use while others can’t buy what they can’t live without Bread of Life […]
I am
I am too big in my box to see I AM but when I am out of my box I am small so small and I see I AM everywhere I am. I write this in honor of L.L. Barkat who has inspired me to leave my “box” and yield myself to the vastness of […]
