I drive myself crazy. I’m sure I’ve said that before, but What in the world is the matter with me??? I want to do everything… anything… [sigh] I’m starting to realize I just can’t. So I do what comes to mind, What comes to hand, What crosses my path, When I can, as best I […]
Isaiah 45:20-25 (New King James Version)
20 “ Assemble yourselves and come; Draw near together, You who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge, Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray to a god that cannot save. 21 Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this from ancient […]
Re-Center My Soul, Lord Jesus
Re-Center My Soul, Lord Jesus My day is filled with this conversation or that piece of paper Emails bombard me, the phone interrupts me, Everyone needs something as quickly as possible… Then five o’clock comes and I fight traffic to get home, By six if I’m lucky. Only my evening rapidly crowds in on me […]
Give Pause…
Give pause… The morning light peeks over the horizon To break up the shadows of night Till day takes its place and the sun Leaps up into the open expanse. Give pause… The clouds turn dark and dense with rain Breaking in with renewal and life-giving moisture As thunder and lightning speak, “Holy, Holy, Holy,” […]
Glorious Familial Havoc
My kids came again– Wreaking a weekend of glorious familial havoc. They used to be little people depending on me To tell them what to think, How to figure things out, What the answers were to Whatever knotty problems they faced. Now, they initiate imaginative ideas, Put sentences together in ways That never occurred to […]
random thought
It’s Thursday. Spring is finally on its way. My mom and my best friend are both going through crises (one at a hospital in Phoenix with her adoptive mom and the other at a hospital here in Nashville with her legally adopted daughter). My husband is watching TV. I’m online doing school stuff (and writing […]
Are We Done Yet?
It’s nice to know I’m listened to, and read and understood– At least that’s what they tell me all the time. But I can think of only one who speaks his mind (and should) That I don’t prompt for feedback on a rhyme. I go along and write a verse or poem here and there […]
REEVALUATION
The old year passes and the new one Hits me like another wave in a turbulent sea. I forget that I belong to Him sometimes, but This annual reevaluation comes around Reminding me, reproving me, recalling me— A strong silent undercurrent of renewal— Till I stop my busy haste to achieve and Relearn how to […]
Eighteen Today
November 27, 2006… It’s a long way from November 27, 1988. Click on the picture to see the poem.