Fences The fences of tomorrow stood behind me free of my cage, done with grazing, aging aimlessly in this pasture of life. No longer pinned within the decision to end or begin. Tomorrow I wrangle dreams. Justin Farley
Category Archives: Personal Development
Poem About Life Journey and Inner Peace – Adventure
Adventure Poem About Life Journey and Inner Peace Adventures never have destinations. It's experience that gives us what we need to find. Leave the need for answers and your expectations behind you, unpacked from your mind. Modern life has lost its sense of mystery. The need to know shatters our sense of awe. To live out your true purpose and destiny recognize that, at times, reason can be a flaw. Don't ask me to explain love. Or the chemicals released when I look in her eyes. It's beyond what the human mind can conceive of, lifeless facts that'll never explain what the heart testifies. We must stop seeking adventure "out there"; true adventure is a journey of the heart. The calling to discover, to dare is where inner freedom starts. Justin Farley
Seasons of Winter Poem About Spring
Seasons of Winter Poem About Spring The ice is melting, thawing away from the land, flowing back into the hands of its maker. Nature's enchantment shatters with a single kiss from spring clinging to the warmth of renewal, rebirth, reawakening. And in each pile of snow that dissolves my heart beats with a disposition towards hope sledding down slopes of solace taking comfort in the possibility to cope with my own seasons of winter. Justin Farley
Running Poem About Changing and Working on Yourself
Running Can I get a cup of wine to drown the time, to float away from this heavy heavy of mine? Or perhaps a speedy car that'll take me fast so far away from these expired dreams now void of stars? Maybe a boat to sail these seas that swallow me with ease each time the tide of my moods helplessly carries me out with no reprieve? But no. I suppose that won't do for there's no way to bid adieu to my mind who follows me no matter the destination I run to. I can't conspire to flee when the jailer with the keys is me. I only get to taste freedom by working on myself daily. Justin Farley
Hello, everyone! I have recently published my first chapbook of Christian poems titled “A Voice in the Wilderness – A Chapbook of Poems about God”. This has been developed and polished over the past six months or so. I am happy with the final product and hope you find encouragement in the poems but also a validation that the spiritual life is not all sunshine and rainbows. We all struggle. We all have periods of questions and/or doubt. But it is the yearning that keeps us coming back for more and allows us to experience joy.
You can purchase either on Amazon or on my own bookstore (it is cheaper and has free shipping on my store) and is available on the Kindle and in paperback.
Amazon: Kindle Paperback
Inkspiration Books (my bookstore): Paperback
Thank you for your support!
Poem About Being Content, Humble, and Joyful
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 the glory of God stepping out of the darkness of a cave. Far harder blind, perched upon an idolatrous mountaintop of our own making. Great expectations cannot bring joy for they are contingent on the false hope that joy can be gained from obtaining anything of worldly worth. Happiness is fleeting; joy remains though the seasons change - in both the harsh, winter cold and the warm, summer sun. A joyful heart shoots for the stars but is content if the Universe wills for it to remain on Earth. Justin Farley
Hello, everyone! I have recently published my first chapbook of Christian poems titled “A Voice in the Wilderness – A Chapbook of Poems about God”. This has been developed and polished over the past six months or so. I am happy with the final product and hope you find encouragement in the poems but also a validation that the spiritual life is not all sunshine and rainbows. We all struggle. We all have periods of questions and/or doubt. But it is the yearning that keeps us coming back for more and allows us to experience joy.
You can purchase either on Amazon or on my own bookstore (it is cheaper and has free shipping on my store) and is available on the Kindle and in paperback.
Amazon: Kindle Paperback
Inkspiration Books (my bookstore): Paperback
Thank you for your support!
What Should I Do With My Life Poem About Life Purpose
A Life's Purpose - A Poem Busyness is not success. Nor is achievement. Nor accolades of power, status, or wealth. Success is measured by how closely we live out our life's purpose - the king who was called to live as a pauper is poor. What good is earning the riches of the world if they cost the betrayal of our heart each and every day? You know the voice. You've heard it speaking in the depth of your soul, trying to point you back to your blueprint, trying to realign you to your design. We don't chose our calling; it chooses us. Fail to accept it and you are thrust, thrown down a path of emptiness where the shrieks of the soul become so loud you must unceasingly engage in activity to distract yourself from the reality of your failure. Before do, you must answer who you are or all your doing is nothing but steps that lead you farther and farther away from your true self. Poem by Justin Farley
A Poem About Recovery Hope and Change
No Matter No matter how hard it is to keep the fire burning, no matter how many disappointments have visited you without warning, no matter how many different trials you've sat through today, though the verdict may be hard to swallow, tomorrow, tomorrow's another day. And it may seem impossible in this moment, but in time you're going to be ok. For when you wake tomorrow a new sun will be on the rise, and you'll find a mustard seed of hope sprouting upon the ashes of yesterday's demise. Justin Farley
Hello, everyone! I have recently published my first chapbook of Christian poems titled “A Voice in the Wilderness – A Chapbook of Poems about God”. This has been developed and polished over the past six months or so. I am happy with the final product and hope you find encouragement in the poems but also a validation that the spiritual life is not all sunshine and rainbows. We all struggle. We all have periods of questions and/or doubt. But it is the yearning that keeps us coming back for more and allows us to experience joy.
You can purchase either on Amazon or on my own bookstore (it is cheaper and has free shipping on my store) and is available on the Kindle and in paperback.
Amazon: Kindle Paperback
Inkspiration Books (my bookstore): Paperback
Thank you for your support!
Poem About Gratitude, Having a Positive Attitude and Blessings
No Quarter If I look, I'll find 1000 complaints, but I've resolved to give no quarter to protest when I've been so blessed with gifts raining down from Heaven like manna. If I find my vision dull, dark, and gray it's because I've chosen to stay blind to how lucky I truly am. Of course there's darkness. But there's also an abundance of light available when we keep our sight fixed on our graces and gratitude. Dark cloud, keep on moving. I'll no longer grant you quarter. My attitude is back in order - my storehouse is far too full to harbor complaint. Justin Farley
Hello, everyone! I have recently published my first chapbook of Christian poems titled “A Voice in the Wilderness – A Chapbook of Poems about God”. This has been developed and polished over the past six months or so. I am happy with the final product and hope you find encouragement in the poems but also a validation that the spiritual life is not all sunshine and rainbows. We all struggle. We all have periods of questions and/or doubt. But it is the yearning that keeps us coming back for more and allows us to experience joy.
You can purchase either on Amazon or on my own bookstore (it is cheaper and has free shipping on my store) and is available on the Kindle and in paperback.
Amazon: Kindle Paperback
Inkspiration Books (my bookstore): Paperback
Thank you for your support!
Wandering – An Inspirational Poem
Wandering To stop wandering is an act of the will. For the heart of man hates being tied and tethered. But children wince and hate the taste of medicine too. It's often that which we most resist that holds the most healing power. Without a well for our talents they spill out, soaked up by the dust, and are never tasted by anyone but the grave. Justin Farley
Godly Christian Poem About Change Growth and New Beginnings
Seasons of Change Changes of the heart take time. Casked, slow to perfection like aged wine. Wouldn't it be easier if the Divine would just remake us overnight, beamed up into heavenly experience like a sublime, shinning light? Yet, true growth comes from the fight. For God always has his reasons, just unknown to us until we've wrestled with inner demons over the course of many seasons. Justin Farley
We’re all starting New Year’s resolutions and are gung-ho about making changes in our lives. But whether we want to get physically, mentally, or spiritually in shape, success often depends on our patience and expectations. It’s easy to create goals; it’s much harder to achieve them. We all know change takes time but still get frustrated because we want growth now. There’s a reason gyms are no longer crowded a few months into the year.
Long lasting change takes hard work and lots of hours. And that’s not a bad thing. Though it’s painful and irritating in the moment, the lessons we learn along the way give us so much more than just the end goal. We grow in ways we never thought possible with each challenge that we meet head on.
It’s no different in spiritual matters. Sometimes God allows us to go through trials and tribulations not because he likes to see us suffer but because he desires our growth and long-term joy. It is usually in those valleys of faith that we learn the most about ourselves – our strengths and weaknesses and how much we must rely upon God’s aid.
Cherish the journey.
Hello, everyone! I have recently published my first chapbook of Christian poems titled “A Voice in the Wilderness – A Chapbook of Poems about God”. This has been developed and polished over the past six months or so. I am happy with the final product and hope you find encouragement in the poems but also a validation that the spiritual life is not all sunshine and rainbows. We all struggle. We all have periods of questions and/or doubt. But it is the yearning that keeps us coming back for more and allows us to experience joy.
You can purchase either on Amazon or on my own bookstore (it is cheaper and has free shipping on my store) and is available on the Kindle and in paperback.
Amazon: Kindle Paperback
Inkspiration Books (my bookstore): Paperback
Thank you for your support!
