Author: Justin Farley
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A Poem About Sunrise and Morning – Dawn
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 grasses’ backs, gathering upon the soil. A misty fog hovers beneath the trees and the sun begins peaking out over…
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A New Commandment – Love One Another
“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 disciples if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35) A Radical Message Over the past few days I’ve been…
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A Servant’s Prayer
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. Bathe me in riches of your wisdom. May I keep me eyes open to the poor in need. Let me…
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SAD – A Poem About Winter and Seasonal Affective Disorder
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 gaze out from within my frozen fortress,I square off, locked in a duel with death.Fighting against the feelings of emptinesslodged deep…
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Poem about Surrendering and Submission to God
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 fireyou’ve fought so hard to contain.But instead of fighting a battle you can’t winyou stop, slow it down, and simply…
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Introspection – A Poem
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 see the signals? Can you really not recognize the signs? Or are you just unable to face yourself in the…
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The Cardinal – A Poem
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 window-sill, perched upon the feeder, cracking seeds open with your beak in the early morning winter, ruffling your feathers to…
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Deimos and Phobos
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 threatens my every breath. Hoping to stop the false visions warning of an ever-approaching death. Heart beating in my ears…
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Loving God in the Midst of Doubt
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, and demands that I pay attention and find meaning in what is unfolding around me. But stubbornness and pride are…
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Follow Me – A Christian Poem About Following Jesus
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 have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of…
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Remain Humble
“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 it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you. Not because…
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Lovers and Friends – A Poem
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 verses in our minds? Let indifference swallow them up and scatter them beneath the sands of time? Can former lovers…
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Fragile – A Sonnet
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 blanketed over the frozen ground, but with only the warning of the sun’s warm glow, fades into silence without a…
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The River
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, longing for what I’m leaving behind. I call out, “River, stop this instant. Throw me upon your banks. March me…
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Resolutions – A Poem About Grace and Jesus
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 before I even make it to spring. This year, I don’t want a temporary fixfor a wound that reopens time…
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God I Need You Prayer Poem
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 the minute it first learned to speak. Yet, I crawled and slithered through the tall, green reeds ducked and darted…
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Fortified
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 reaches my inner domain, no intruder is able to sneak and slip between the cracks. I’ve built these walls strong…
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I Am Not A Victim – The Courage to Change
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 read “Unbroken” by Lauren Hillenbrand a few weeks ago and was inspired by the story. But it wasn’t the time Louis…
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