Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up. — James 4:10 What gentle love does our God pour down upon us? What kind expression does His Spirit bestow? What strong protection does our Father set in hedges all around us? It is the perfect charity of grace,Continue reading “Surrender”
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Breaking
My eyes are awake through the night watches, that I may meditate on Your word. — Psalm 119:148, NKJV There are those days when you meet the shard- edge of nerves, the riven- end of emotion, and you have not even a residue of strength left. You reach what seems the end of your reserves,Continue reading “Breaking”
Thorns in Our Flesh
Moses stumbled in his speech, a cry of I can’t raised before God, and I relate well to that doubting demeanor; I carry my own why-not and not-me reasons, a quiver of debate strapped to my back, my sharp defenses pulled taunt and shot from a distance, but God doesn’t ask for our excuses, justContinue reading “Thorns in Our Flesh”
Layers
No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God’s garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance. — Charles Spurgeon Fragrance held within these gentle folds that I hold, cool and silken petals hidden within my enclosed palm; but such beauty is better unfurled in aContinue reading “Layers”
Shade of Silence
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk. —Charles Spurgeon Sometimes I sit in the shade of silence, a corner or some placed removed from the common area, aContinue reading “Shade of Silence”
Soli Deo Gloria
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. –Ephesians 1:3, NLT If my soul could be set in staff, the notes and rhythms of my heart recorded just when the stings of emotion pullContinue reading “Soli Deo Gloria”
This Joy
This joy pushes at my skin, leaves my heart fluttering in breathless wonder — I am allowed to create; so, may I write in humility, a beautiful lowliness, the recognition that I am a created being guarded by the Almighty, shaped by His hands, safe in His arms, one through Jesus. I am overwhelmed byContinue reading “This Joy”
One
I contemplate what it is to exist — to be a created being, spinning on a created world, attended by a creative God. I stand before green grasslands, vast cerulean oceans, massive mountain ranges that reach to the sky; I stand beneath an expanse of blue that falls to endless black and I am awareContinue reading “One”
Awakening Thanks
Grief-lined faces fill my mind … scattering my dreams as I shun sleep again…. I know this worn path; once smooth stones become unclimbable when in weakness we bear every affliction alone. Hefting our own pains, we laden on struggles of others, barnacles of immense weight, but there is ease when we release all miseryContinue reading “Awakening Thanks”
Poetic Meanderings 