The steep bank at the end of a trail left us with our only option, and so we stood, gazed out upon the gentle waters, took time to consider the beauty of a moment before turning back, retreading, impressing our steps further into soil, joy- filled by the notion we had forged our part of aContinue reading “Steps”
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Terrains
Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path. — Psalm 119:105 Ripples, crests, tipping points, jagged edges, garden paths — life is a journey of terrains, some smooth plains and others tangled and rough-hewn. It is new each day the sun drops hope upon us, each wind changeContinue reading “Terrains”
Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum*
(*Footprints do not go backwards) My eyes rest forward settling on a limitless horizon immense before me; I’ve stumbled and crawled– my knees buckled — fallen flat-out — my face to dirt — and defiantly laid myself down idle by the wayside, just watching the world pass by, but in the stillness resides patience, the EternalContinue reading “Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum*”
Welcome
You don’t have to travel far to travel well. There is a whole world waiting when you step outside and look. Creation is an endless marvel just waiting to be explored. A pebbled path with tufts of long grasses waving me forward, a side step of silver hoof prints leading left, a stone pad upContinue reading “Welcome”
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 