Striving, striving pushing onward never taking time to really rest. So much to do, so little time I’m always running behind the best. My life is filled with so many shoulds the “ought tos” overwhelm and yet I see now that it is because it was me instead of God […]
Life with God
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Refining 2
The fire gets hotter, impurities rise The harder the wind blows, the easier it is to see what was well-built by the wise, and what was not. Surrender is never easy. It’s only when I’m asked to give something up that I realize how attached I really was to it […]
Life with God
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Refining 1
The fire is hot coals underneath glow red and this is NOT how I imagined life, in my head As temperature rises impurities float toward the top…surprises from deep in the moat Filth, as it reaches the uppermost parts is scraped; it teaches from old ways to depart The scraping, […]
Sad
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Oh Little One
A little one has come and gone At first there was great joy, a song But life here ended, far too fast …it wasn’t meant to last Oh little one we briefly knew We thought we’d share our lives with you Instead with Father you now are Too bad it […]
Sad
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The Door of No Return
Oh door of no return, how much suffering you have seen. Families torn, how they mourn wives for husbands scream. Freedom lost, slaves to be in some far-off land Growing things, how strange it seems to leave familiar hands Tiny rooms, crowded high horrific site and smell human flesh imprisoned […]
Sad
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Wretched Humanity
Beautiful sunshine, a lovely stream, blue sky a seemingly idyllic setting, majestic and wide —but in reality a dark hellish nightmare inside How could there be a place like Dachau (Dah-how) A concentration camp of terror Where many lived their last in horror? Just how can people torture one another? […]
Nature
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Two Turtles on a Log
Two turtles on a piece of drift wood, floating in the pond slowly with the current shift from one side to the other, and bond the bright sun’s rays they soak in, their necks they stretch out far while a squirrel sits in an oak tree calmly eating an acorn […]
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Two Deer in Snow
Two deer stand in the field Peacefully gazing at the morning sights The sun shines brightly on the snow all around Fields and trees abound The train approaches Its noise the deer hear A sudden startle, a jerk of the head And off they fled Two deer run across a […]
Nature
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Swinging Leaf
An afternoon so beautiful, gentle breeze, shining sun Sitting resting under pine trees — just for fun Strange curiosity: one frantic leaf swinging from left to right Periodically pausing briefly, no visible cause, but a pendulum with full might The leaf stem nearly broken It dangles by a thread From […]
Life with God , Nature
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One Star
One lonely star is in the sky today In a small nook, isolated I say One source of light amidst the nebulous surrounding Shining brightly for all to see—but almost drowning It’s one small speck pushed, tossed, bullied by darkness But bright, resilient, strong, instilling great fondness One solitary luminary […]