When I think about my childhood, all I can remember is trying to be older, more adult, part of the grown-up crowd. I spent most of my time listening to the grown-ups talk or reading to escape my childhood. I’m sure I must have played sometimes. I had toys and games, favorite dolls and stuffed […]
Susurration
Like the waves rolling into the sand, Your Spirit is powerful, inexorable. You resonate within us— Unstoppable, bringing change. Even when we resist, Your grace never gives up on us— Saturating our hearts with love… Till the rough places are made smooth, The mountains are brought low, And our hearts bow in humble gratitude For […]
Invitation
When wonder at the world becomes insipid, When watches of the night become too long, When days drag on until it all seems vapid, When noises overwhelm your every song, It’s time to press beyond your inclinations, To make your feelings cave beneath your will, To stand upon the Rock of your salvation, To hold […]
Comfort
Holy Spirit, Today the warm, gray clouds wrapped around us As we stared out the car window. I thought how really present I felt in the moment, Realized you hovered there quietly with me, Smiled to myself for the sheer pleasure of you. The grayness of the warm, moist, late spring day Felt like a […]
Life in Christ
Sometimes, my Lord, I wonder why You chose to come, to live and die… Because we are so full of sin, With hearts of wickedness within. Yet it’s so clear you loved us still Despite our weak and foolish will, So in due time you saved us all. You offered us your loving call. By […]
In The Moment (For John)
In the moment, When I sit and think of you, All the crazy recollections Give me bits and bytes of joy that lift my heart. In the moment, When I meditate on us, All the bumps along the way Make me glad we had each other for support. In the moment, When I contemplate and […]
Being Me
There really is no way to quantify, or qualify, the struggles I have been so deeply entwined inside the core of my being, my very selfness, so to speak. Sometimes words help. They used to help a lot more. These days…not so much. I find it difficult, almost impossible if I were honest, to articulate […]
In Him We Live
I feel this compulsion to write again, To try to express something new and different Than the thousand thousand ways I’ve written before. Words have always been my comfort, My way of pushing the envelope of my emotions Until I can define and quantify some aspect of myself In a verbal space that others identify […]
In Your Arms
When words don’t really flow and All I do is feel, Till I am overwhelmed, You give me rest and silence in Your arms. You let me come and cry on Your shoulder Till I am purged of the stress and shame, Till the rivers of cleansing tears Flows clearly again, Without all the toxins […]
Wrestling the Angel
I find myself completely overcome By this need to struggle against the odds, The ones that tell me There’s no way I could ever win this fight. Quitting is not an option for me, though, So I keep on wrestling the angel Though I feel so exhausted. The worst part of it all Is that […]