Places 29: Ancestry
The revisions of “Marks of Ancient Boundaries” in Places 2011 turned into nine comments on family genealogy. I Seeking to discover who we were, turning through old maps and deeds, searching Ancestry.com and 23 and Me, links on our computer screens traced strokes of fading inks. Savoring our yesterdays, we documented real people— with real […]
Places 28: Our Father, Our Lord
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. Isaiah 40:11 KJV Our Father, Our Lord As gently as a mother draws an infant to her breast, as surely as soft arms […]
Places 27: Malice toward None
In 1970, when divorce, PTDS after traumatic violence (intervening to stop an attempted murder), the deaths of my dad and both grandmas and other inexplicable events and significant losses all hit me within eighteen months, I crumbled. At one darkly threatening moment, I feared losing total touch with my mind’s hold on objective reality. I […]
Places 26: Facing the Rain
I couldn’t revise Facing the Rain. It was right the first time. In Places in 2011, it was a reader’s favorite. It’s not made-up. It’s a real poem about me and my Mom. To my mother Once, in the beginning, we stood on the front porch facing into the rain close and warm watching together safe […]
Places 25: Good Morning
Good Morning What? Waking me up before the dawn, expecting me, to praise, to forget myself and sing Your song? No early bird am I. Deprived of rest, shivering in wintry cold wanting warmth and heat to thaw my frigid hands and feet— You say to seek for song? I come up short in weakness […]
Places 24: You Will Know Me
Revisions of You Will Really Know Me Waiting Often I have sought You— pushed aside the lures of night, fought to find Your Glory light. I’d wait with seeking heart until Your Love would find— to realign my weary mind. Today, I’m tired of waiting, encased in aching aging bones, my weary soul waits on, […]
Places 23: Tall Before Me
Note: I had fun with this one. I’m not sure how inspired it is— the content is quite serious but the words came so quickly that I forgot about the “writer” in me who struggles and searches for the perfect word and just enjoyed the flow of verses moving from my head to the paper. One line […]
Because of Jesus (With a List of Words to Describe His Life in Believers)
After His crucifixion and death, Jesus of Nazareth was the first human being to wake up from physical death, fully alive, fully human and Himself, but transformed into a new kind of spiritual body. This caused a paradigm shift on the entire timebound planet. It is impossible to list all the changes this has made […]
Your Today
Take time to thank and praise the Lord today. Do it until you feel HIS Holy Spirit welling up inside. Do it through tears if you must, in pain if it’s there, through your busy thoughts, until they are stilled and through your work until you know His work from your own. Take time TODAY […]
Who is Jesus and Why was He Crucified?
Who is Jesus and Why was He Crucified? His mind was unquestionably brilliant. He confounded every scholar who questioned Him. His emotions were pure, untarnished by rebellion, pride, jealousy or greed. All of His actions were completely motivated by compassionate love and truth. Not one trace of selfish desire for personal fulfillment marred His concern […]
Beauty
Beauty I’ve been seeking beauty lately, thinking about it, writing about it, appreciating it and longing for more of it. Winter has grown dull. Fall’s tawny golden grasses and rich browns are faded, dull and washed out. The landscape is drab. Fortunately, all this outside monotony has been has been interrupted by unexpected surprises —fire […]
Places 20: That Day
Was nature still? Or did winds stir? Did leaves whisper or branches rub to sigh? Were there grasses high enough to bend and sway, to worship their Creator upon that Holy Day? What sounds surrounded Him? Did footsteps on the road near-by slow down to plod, trod and tread in quiet fear and dread? Could […]
