prayers – Poetic Meanderings

Divine Hours

The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness — Shakespeare In the dim pre-morning when most are just entering REM sleep, we wake and begin slow and gentle steps, stretching, opening our hearts in faith as He brings us into the promise of dawn, and we say in unison with the first birdsong, ThisContinue reading “Divine Hours”

Disquieted

Morning, noon, and night I cry out in my distress, and the Lord hears my voice. —Psalm 55:17, NLT Another day shutters to gray, lulling us into the sleeping hours, but I’ve had no dreams of late, no traveling in hazy realms of memory or traipsing far into imagined lands of whimsy; what sleep I’veContinue reading “Disquieted”

Passages

…when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it; the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” — Andrew Wyeth Too soon this bloom broke through the fallow ground, the beckoning sun teasing an early spring, soaking the soil with warmth, but winter willContinue reading “Passages”

A Melody

…His compassions do not fail. —Lamentations 3:22 When I am lost, wandering the hard terrain of pain in this world or trapped within the mumbling maze of my own despair, even when my words fail and only grumblings and moanings escape, any prayer, however ineloquent, becomes a melody, beautiful in the surrendered- knowing that God Continue reading “A Melody”

Mumbling

…groanings too deep for words… — From Romans 8:26 Unsettled but ready for rest,… she prays, but her words are muddled, and so she rambles, knowing God can sort through her thoughts, decipher her heart’s need, make poetry out of her mumbled pleas… —C.L. Fisher, July 2021 Unless otherwise indicated, all writings and images areContinue reading “Mumbling”

Daffodil Prayers

“Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty.” — William Shakespeare. I wondered at the vibrant yellow, the rich saturation of this bowing daffodil, the happy hue of a fluted bloom that greeted me this morning, It seemed the sun had poured in its warmth, filled it withContinue reading “Daffodil Prayers”