Poetry
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Grace to you this day. Free flowing, fresh, thirst quenching, life altering, mind bending, countenance lifting, laughter evoking, heart wrenching, heart mending, sweet, precious grace to you. Grace to you that is greater than sin, disappointment, and fear. Grace to you that is so flavored with giddy God joy that no bitter words can…
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We set urgent goals, make urgent plans, play urgent roles,Pray urgent prayers, seek urgent interventions for urgent cares. God quietly, silently, patiently hears our cries, our fears, our sobbing tears. God speaks and cage-rattles as silently and patiently to our rage- battles. And urgency gives way to intentionality ….And rush to order … And we step…
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Who can I lift todayFrom dregs or rags or rubble?"Who will lift me?" replies the bit of me within meWhose focus, inverted and cross eyed causes me to Stumble over unexpected opportunities."Refocus!" Shouts the me within me that can see,Refocus and move forward and ask again the first question.Who can I lift today and in the…
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I am wake-walking through a garden of dreams, eyes open, heart pounding, life-affirming. I am dreaming within a dream of dreams yet to be. My heart is full of emptiness being filled and refilled. My life is an adventure where impossibilities unfold into realities. I am wake-walking. Nothing is asleep within me. Wake-walking and wondering…
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Isaiah 48:10"See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction."Hard times are creeping all over. Everyone looking for a four leafed clover. Life as we know it isn't so easy. Verses like this getting mighty cheesy, Days are long. Rewards come slowly. More time…
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There is more to do than can be done. There is a smorgasbord of fun. The race is longer than can be run. Face it; we are under the gun. So … do what you can while you can. "“As long as it is day, I must do the work of Him Who sent Me.…
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Life Academy We dream; we grow;We move; we flow;We laugh; we glow.While here below,We live in anticipationOf pomp and circumstanceAnd graduation.We are matriculated in the school of lifeArticulated by toil and tears and strife.We are students of all that passesWork and play, day by day, our classes.We are classmates with our fellow creatures.These also are…
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Happy Birthday The perplexing poles of gratitude and regret, Pictures in the mind we cannot forget, Unwritten sonnets, unsung songs, Unfulfilled wishes, un-righted wrongs. Tempered and enveloped by words aptly spoken, Mended hearts which once were broken, Loves requited, love extended, Hearts united, truth defended. All of life is blended in a stew Of…
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Today is now. Now it is today. Tomorrow is not yet, but when it is, will be today. Then today will be yesterday. And we will start over. So, if you are going to do anything at all, do it today. For each today will pass away until they are all used up. What is…
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I am wake-walking through a garden of dreams, eyes open, heart pounding, life-affirming. I am dreaming within a dream of dreams yet to be. My heart is full of emptiness being filled and refilled. My life is an adventure where impossibilities unfold into realities. I am wake-walking. Nothing is asleep within me. Wake-walking and wondering…
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