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Injured and Dying

She hasn’t prayed since the crash,Her anger has become her strength,Her defiance, purchased with pain,She is broken and hopeless. From nearby came news of a dying girl,From the depths of her misery,She tells God that He cannot let this happen,And asks Him for the power of a miracle. Her eyes close to focus on theContinue reading “Injured and Dying”

The Habit of a Healthy Routine

What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? My daily routine gives me redemption, peace and renewal. It is my comfort zone filling me with energy and confidence to have a productive day. A short outline of my routine is a good nights sleep, coffee and news updates, private bible study,Continue reading “The Habit of a Healthy Routine”

Homeless Hopeless

I shiver from the damp and drizzly January day,Winter has already sheared off the Oleander leaves,My eyes lock on heavy rains beating down,As an empty shoe floats down the streetBouncing in waves like it’s screaming for help,It falls off the bridge into the raging water. I take a deep breath to break the trance,A visionContinue reading “Homeless Hopeless”

Soldiers Pay

Souls and bones in catacombs,The one to rise amended,The bones in sand to lay the land,With soldiers’ shadows suspended. In bonds with all their comrades,The faces in fever dreams,Spilt the blood of righteousness,Return on angel wings. Granite visions arrange,Each headstone squared away,Names throb in endless pain,To crumble in potter’s clay. At once I was unmended,TheContinue reading “Soldiers Pay”

Harvest Moon

The kindness of Fall has taken flight,Winter approaches to take the throne,Gliding by the evening equinox,Day and night begrudgingly equal. An ode’ in autumn brings comfort,Like a wool sweater and a bowl of soup,Feelings of warmth by an evening fire,As dusk foretells a chilly night. Presiding over this change of guard,The harvest moon conducts theContinue reading “Harvest Moon”

A Butterfly Life

Life is like the butterfly,Innocent in the bloom,Destined to give life nurture,To leave the garden too soon. This is your life’s station,To flicker from leaf to bud,Looking for a velvet pillow,To its pistil give a tug. If you find no place to land,Your little blackened feet,Fly on to the garden over,For a nectar pool toContinue reading “A Butterfly Life”

Bare Emotions

Feelings given to guide our way,To lead intended paths each day,They dream in sleep to speak awake,Push idle minds a course to take. Make careful use in passing seasons,Of things like hate for painful reasons,Worry and fear will steal your peace,As disappointing days increase. A rawness marks the damage done,Prevarication of truth begun,To calm yourselfContinue reading “Bare Emotions”

The Lost Children of Uvalde

Long will bell trebles echo,In rooms of virtuous chatter,It’s clear for whom they ring,In streams of life that matter. A purity of beautiful innocence,Their harm unimagined,Their joy for new life started,In bell tones of compassion. Like a brasher of hot burning coals,Atop these tender souls,A fire of pain my feelings rain,For whom the bell tolls.

Gratitude

My first thought was of joy but as I wrote my response, I realized what I really meant was gratitude, which of course, contains healthy doses of joy. I start just about every day in grateful prayer, expressing gratitude and feeling joyful for the simplest of things – for my cup of coffee, for aContinue reading “Gratitude”

A Rock

If you were a rock instead of a person,Which would you miss the most?The joy, the happiness, the love,The blessings of human feelings? Perhaps, even the disappointments,Pain, mistakes, or broken hearts?Ahh, the capacity of humanity,What a shame to be, just a rock! But as a rock, I would say,I have all the time in theContinue reading “A Rock”