Category: Contemplative and Meditative Poems
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Deep Christian Poem About Suffering That Rhymes
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Suffering is a word we don’t like too much in the modern age. But suffering is one of the most powerful tools humans have for change. It transforms us in ways we wouldn’t ever seek on our own if we let it. What hard times in your life felt like hell in the moment, but…
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Deep Haiku Poem About the Spiritual Journey and Fire 5 7 5
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Are you keeping the divine fire burning? A deep haiku poem about the spiritual journey and our responsibility in keeping the passionate fire with God burning.
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A Christian Haiku Prayer About Faith
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A short christian haiku poem about trusting God to lead you during hard times, as well as a reflection on faith.
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Deep Poem About Being Selfish – I Me My Mine
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In our self-centeredness, we can lose sight of the world around us and block spiritual growth. This post and deep poem about being selfish examines the cost of living looking through the lens of I, ME, MY, MINE.
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Silence Speaks Poem About Listening in Nature
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Silence Speaks Poem About Listening in Nature Silence comes swiftly with the sudden breeze quietly untangling the mind and piercing the restless heart. The rustles of the leaves in the trees let light fall like raindrops each time nature’s canopy is shaken. There’s a presence here unnameable, indescribable, ancient and older than the tallest oak.…
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Fasting in the Desert A Godly Poem About Contemplation and Selfishness
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Fasting in the Desert Strip yourself naked, unclothed of selfish desire. For it requires fuel to burn just as a raging fire. If all thoughts revolve around me and mine, how am I to hear the voice of God, how am I to feel the presence of the Divine? It’s by starving addictions that we…
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Ashes Devotional Poem For Lent Ash Wednesday
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Ashes The fire blazed and in the flames I gazed upon the fuel – the false self feeding this renewal. It is awareness that strikes the match and dispatches the light roaring into the darkness. Though this heat is intense, it only speaks of how immense your glory and goodness truly are. I fed myself…
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Poem About Being Content, Humble, and Joyful
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Great Expectations Joy can seize us in the lowliest of places, perhaps even easier than in the loftiest ones. Humble eyes are open wider than those of great expectation, those muted of exultation and closed to the blessings that abound in the ordinary – it’s commonness makes it no less miraculous. It’s easy to see…
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Origins Poem About Love Life Meaning
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Origins What comes first, the invitation or the knock at the door? The yearning for your love or the whispering at our core? Justin Farley
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Poem About Being Unique and Special
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Alphabet Soup God’s assigned each one of us a letter of His being – a unique quality that sets us apart from each and every human to ever exist. Though we are not God, God is a part of us. Our letter reveals something about Him. It is why we are all connected. It is…
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The Cloud of Unknowing A Poem on the Dark Night
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The Cloud of UnknowingTo be free from the desires of the mindstep out into the night,outside of space and time.Wear the darkness, clothed like a dress.In your unknowing,you’re truly blessed.What you seek lies farther than eyes can see – step after stepfaith must lead.Like a flower, like a seed,in the darknessis where roots feed.We need…
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Plucking Beauty – A Poem About Life and Eternity
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Plucking Beauty I once plucked beauty out of experience serendipitously like wild flowers in the country, delighting in what new joy life was going to allow me to discover and show off in vases upon my windowsill. But my curiosity is stagnant and often vanishes, jaded over what I know I’ll find – that everything…
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Poem About Intimacy with God
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Intimacy With GodSpeaking in the silence,waiting in the midst of contemplation,listening on the other line of prayerawaits the answerto the relentless yearning of the human heart.Do not come seeking secret knowledge.Do not expect divine visions,to become enlightened,or to transcend physical reality.But come to the silencesimply to listen,desiring and longing forintimacy with the Divine,experiencing God’s love…
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Poem About Peace, Love, and Faith
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You Will Find You will find peace when nothing but this moment matters… when you forgive yourself and others for the past and stop obsessing over the worries of tomorrow. You will find contentment when you seek communion with the divine… when the eternal fire of truth burns brighter than wealth, social status, or material…
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Poem About the Grace and Mercy of God
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The Questions of Life Are we free or predetermined? At the helm of the open seas or merely indentured servants? Why the trials, why the burdens if life is as it’s meant to be, if the future is certain? But as for me, I’m determined to believe that freewill is your loving flame for us…
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Religious Christmas Poem About Jesus Birth
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A Christian Christmas Poem About the Birth of Christ “ILLUMINATION” Seeds of fire grow with smoky breath. Tongues of flame lick the darkness and eat away the barriers to sight. Slowly shadows melt off of objects once obscured beneath black blankets of night. As the heat rises, images of revelation meet the eyes. Secrets are…
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Opus Dei – A Poem About the Work of God In Your Life
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Opus Dei – A Poem About the Work of God In Your Life Your hot breath has blown on me and provided the oxygen for glowing embers of love where there was once nothing but cold, hard coals. You’ve cultivated my soul and provided the rich, black soil for roots of patience where there was…
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