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Somewhere, Winter is Dying
* Somewhere, winter is dying Winter is dying somewhere * We know it is time. The apple barrel is nearly empty And I am no longer muffled by the snow. * I am not sure what to do when spring comes; will I know where to step, will I sink in the grass...
Spring, Daffodils, Clouds – two poems
I can see a slight tinge of yellow on the daffodils, and though the winter cold is still lingering on, I know that spring is on its way. To celebrate the arrival of spring, and because April is National Poetry Month, here a couple of poems written by William...
“What Will a Life Magnify?”
"What Will a Life Magnify?" Did Jesus practice gratitude as he walked to calvary? As people spat and spurned, did he continue to give thanks to God the father? When he was so greatly burdened, bowed down with the heavy load, bruised, agonizing, and all he could see...
The Moving of Stones
I step out of the water, my long hair dripping wet. I was 13 and it was Easter Sunday night in a medium-sized church in the deep south when I was baptized... but it's years later when I read Ann Voskamp's prose in her Journal, where she writes about her daughter's...
Solved
Solved Lost variables in a vortex of unknowns Seeking an answer, a solution Seeking our identity Seeking to be known… What is the value of our unknown? More or less? Equal to, greater than, or less than? We’re looking for our value Hoping to be plugged in Somewhere...
An {Old} Prayer
On this day, the first day of Spring, I remember God's faithfulness. After a cold winter, signs of spring are bursting forth. Spring reminds me that in a troubled world, God's word is trustworthy. Amidst uncertainties in the future, whether it be politically,...
A Thousand Twilights
A Thousand Twilights A thousand drums thundered across the sky dropping wedges, cutting time in sharp divides-- impassable mountain range Sometimes I hear music— wind-songs, tree-speak, leaf-whispers of ancient days a thousand twilights hide me in shades of evergreen...
Lucy and the Chocolate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI Lucy and the Chocolate Listen– it’s easy, she can handle it Moving along quite splendidly But it gets faster, bit by bit And though they ought to quit This redhead does not so gingerly Listen—...
The Gap
The Gap Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. Isaiah 59:1 (NIV) In 1512, Michelangelo finished painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, now regarded as one of the world’s most famous art masterpieces....
Remember when the snow melted in February?
Dear Future Me, Do you remember that gray February day when they were all gone unexpectedly? Josh was at a week-long camp, Nat was in college, and Eli had a spontaneous sleepover at a friend's house. You weren't expecting to be alone. It just happened. Remember when...
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