Heaven help me, I just need You.Somehow this life has gotten so overwhelmingThat I can barely keep my head up,So, I’m reaching out again in my distressBecause I don’t know what else I can do.It feels like I can’t even pray these days.I read the scripture in hopes that I can hear YouEven though the […]
Month: May 2020
Wait and Hope and Pray
What can you do when all you can doIs wait and hope and pray?You wait and hope and pray with all your might,But sometimes it’s not enough.Sometimes you hope in vain.I keep remembering againThis life is just a blink of an eye,A foreshadowing of eternityWith all the uncounted time stretched outJust on the other side […]
Trusting in Your Goodness
As my thoughts meander through the corridors of change,All I need to know is that you hold me in your hands.Still I wonder every day how things could be so strange.With everything I see and feel, I’m looking for your plans,But I can’t tell from all that comes how things will still work out.I’ve come […]
Word of God
Stepping stones sit firm beneath my feet—Your words of grace and wisdom in my ear.The bread of life protects me from defeat—The priceless, living word I long to hear.I can’t get enough sustaining peace…Without the scriptures, I cannot be whole.Keep me hungry; help me to increase,So I may find completeness in my soul.You say man […]
Prayer for Renewal
You beckon me, again, to comeInto your presence, Lord.You call me out of my heart’s slump.You’re speaking to my core.I hear your whispering voiceBeneath the cacophonic noise. But I’ve forgotten how to move.I feel so frozen still.I sense you call me to improve;Please mold me to your will.I’m nothing without youTo come and change me […]
Out into Sunlight
Determination creeps up on me and pouncesLike a lion snatching its prey from the jaws of indifference.Till now I have simply existed—Wandering from day to day with some bewilderment,Wondering if my days held any real substance.It’s a terrible state to be in.That tepid, tasteless miasma blankets everythingUntil I can’t tell what the point is:Wake, eat, […]
Love (for John)
I find myself thinking of you a lot, and I do mean A LOT.You are on my mind a goodly portion of Every. Single. Day.How you look, things you say,The affectionate way you… surround me…Like the shoulder rubs in the mornings,Or the frequent, extended hugs in the evenings.It’s so very odd in one sense.It doesn’t […]