ALONG THE BARREN ROAD

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Guideposts Along the Barren Road

Dawn – A Poem About Sunrise and Morning The fluttering of a thousand wings flap and fill the sky – blackbirds and geese fly to unknown destinations. The cool dew of morning runs down the…
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“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my…
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Lord, stir my heart to seek. Place my feet on the path where I may find. Give me the strength to throw my life at your feet. Allow me to leave my old desires behind.…
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SAD – A Poem About Winter and Seasonal Affective Disorder The wind whips against the shutters.Brutal blasts of cold swirl in the breeze.Hope seems tattered and scattered,lying buried beyond the brink of spring. As I…
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How to Fight A Battle You Can’t Win – Poem about Surrendering and Submission to GodThe world stands -tempting and taunting.Your inhibition weak -restless and yawning,ready to wake and welcome desire,to add fuel to this…
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Stop chasing trouble. It doesn’t follow you without an invitation to walk through your door. So why do you seem so surprised when it uses your heart to mop the floor? Can you simply not…
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The Cardinal – A Poem Scarlet red against the snowy white, I see you at the feeder munching on sunflower seed. You do not know me. But I know you. I’ve watched you from the…
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I lie awake in the night, scratching and clawing at my skin. Hoping if I peel the layers right, I can shed the hell within. Hoping to quiet the hellish howling – the fear that…
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From a very early age, I’ve felt a strong connection to God in my heart beyond anything that was learned or indoctrinated into me. It is a intimacy that calls to me, whispers my name,…
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The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him,“Follow me.” 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We…
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“Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas…
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Can we stop, start it over and reintroduce ourselves as friends? Let the past harden like cooled, charred lava embrace each other and make amends? Can we leave love’s story untold – leave the unwritten…
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Beauty bathes like a new born babe, swimming into the world in a mother’s embrace. Shining like a light that quickly fades, extinguished into nothing without a trace. Beauty rests like a fresh, wet snow…
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Driven by the forces of the river. Drifting through the bends. Destined to be deposited into the vast, open sea where uncertainty begins. A longing makes its lodging deep inside, afraid of where I’m going,…
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Another year.Another day.Another chance to seize destiny. To stand in front of the mirror,dreaming how much prettier I’ll be this year,glorifying and gloating in myself. But resolutions quickly falterand that glass altar I worshiped atshatters…
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My Heart Needed You – A Christian Poem Prayer About Searching For God My heart knew it needed you the minute it took its first beat. Your name was on the tip of my tongue…
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These castle walls have been built by the tears and pain of my own heart. Each stone carefully constructed and sealed in layers of mortar to make sure there are no breaches, that no enemy…
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The hardest thing about fighting back against any mental illness, addiction, mental limitations, or physical limitations is that there is not a direct enemy that you can see, that you rebel and fight against. I…
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