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Sparrow – A Poem About Nature and God A house sparrow is busy outside my window Gathering bits of grass in his beak – Supplies needed for this year’s nest. Some biological impulse is pushing…
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The Writer and the Wild – A Poem About Nature and Writing White winged wonder wandering, wobbling west beside water. Flitting feathers flying – flocks fleeing for fields of gold. Sun shinning. Stream shimmering. Chinook…
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Beauty – A Love Poem There are no words fine enough, No metaphors fair enough, No lines long enough, To describe your beauty. Your move me with your mystifying glances That dance like fireflies Flickering…
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An Ode To Joy – A Poem About Hope It is joy that spreads its wings and meets me in the midst of my melancholic musings and carries me through despair. Pain does not disappear,…
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The Door of Discovery – A Love Poem She reigns, riding a white horse Across the barren landscapes of my mind And brings a glimmer of hope To a kingdom lost in darkness. She is…
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My children’s short story, “What’s Brewing Next Door?“, is free today only on Amazon through the Kindle Store. “When mysterious neighbors move in next door in the middle of the night, Katherine and Josh are sure…
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“So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.…
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Revival – A Christian Poem About Restoration Take this wounded heartthat beats in its own keyand tune it to the beauty of your mercy. Gather these scattered fragments –pieces of man I yearn to beand…
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Hope – A Christian Poem When the world beats you down to the ground Love abounds between the beams of the cross, When you’re hopeless and lost, Riding waves that carry and toss You farther…
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Most of us have a vision of the way we think our life should go. We have a certain career path that is right. We have a certain type of spouse that is our fit.…
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Originally posted on Stephen Mattson: Instead of promoting Christ, Christians often promote … world. their theology their culture their values their creeds their traditions their spiritual practices their specific type of baptism their required form…
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This weekend I was curious about a certain aspect about writer and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis’s life. When I sought the information on the internet, I stumbled upon a page and was appalled by the…
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Tilling Truth’s Garden – A Christian Poem My understanding grows like a thriving weed, Rising taller, but smothering the seed Of a beautiful garden of eternal truth. I, a child in the infancy of youth,…
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“Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell his salvation from day to day.” Psalm 96:1-2 Sing to the Lord…
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The Abundance of Your Mercy – A Christian Poem For Lent In the hour of my tribulation, I fail the same trials and tests Time and time again. Delighting for a fleeting moment in my…
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In You I Trust – A Christian Poem For Lent In the midst of my trials, May I not lean on my familiar ways, But walk boldly relying on only your deliverance Through the heat…
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A Christian poem about hope and finding light during dark times that rhymes, titled “The Light That Shines In The Darkness” by Justin Farley.
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Being and finding yourself is hard. Each one of us is a unique individual, blessed with unique talents and gifts. But each of us also longs for acceptance – to feel wanted, needed, and understood…
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