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Tag: faith

  • Beauty’s Battle – A Poem About Endurance and Fighting Fear

    Beauty’s Battle – A Poem About Endurance and Fighting Fear

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    Justin Farley

    Beauty’s Battle – A Poem About Endurance and Fighting Fear She sits engaged in a battleBeneath the shadow of her own face,Slowly conceding to her own demonsBrought back by their blows, crushed beneath their weight. She wonders what’s the use in tryingWhen defeat has already been secured?For what’s left of the light is dyingAnd her…

  • Patience – A Poem About Waiting and Trusting in God’s Timing

    Patience – A Poem About Waiting and Trusting in God’s Timing

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    Justin Farley

    Patience – A Poem About Waiting and Trusting in God’s Timing The agony of waiting, watching the hours Drains my power and leaves me bitter Filled with battered pride and endless angst. But just as it takes a season to cultivate a flower, I must keep a steadfast heart and wait. My deepest failure is relying…

  • When Trouble Comes – A Poem About Faith and Enduring Life’s Pain

    When Trouble Comes – A Poem About Faith and Enduring Life’s Pain

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    Justin Farley

    When Trouble Comes A Poem About Faith and Enduring Life’s Pain Evening’s crippling darkness passes away. It’s distant vigor muted by the beauty of the morn. Hope shines forth from the sun’s mighty rays, A new spirit within us is born. I am not overburdened by life’s troubles. Though painful, they will not shackle nor…

  • Narcissus and God – A Poem

    Narcissus and God – A Poem

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    Justin Farley

    My feelings for you swing like a pendulum, driven by the forces of gravity; pulled back down by life’s realities and the weather during these ever-changing seasons of my life. I have hated you. I have loved you. I have sought you and found nothing but empty space. I have sought you and found the…

  • My Conceited Heart – A Christian Poem About Turning Away From God

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    Justin Farley

    Is it your will that we should become strangersThe moment I become a stranger to pain?The wind howls your lonely lullabyAs I drift on forgetting your name. Your deliverance is a selfless actWrapped up and gifted as incomparable love -Your omniscient knowledge knowing we will turn awayThe second you stop the tears of our flood.…

  • The Battle of the Heart – A Christian Poem About Temptation

    The Battle of the Heart – A Christian Poem About Temptation

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    Justin Farley

    The Battle of the Heart – A Christian Poem About Temptation Oh Lord, my heart quakes with confusion. My mind twisted with the delusions of desire. I am a boat that wanders across the sea Getting rocked by the waves day in and day out. How do I stay afloat and stand tall When the…

  • Christ the Redeemer – A Poem For Easter

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    Justin Farley

    Christ the Redeemer – A Rhyming Religious Poem For Easter Darkness drew back in disbelief on that day,When death’s victory was thwartedAnd the stone was rolled away.What depths of love,What heights of grace,Could bear the weight of the human race?Defeat didn’t last but three days,Before the wounds were healedAnd the burial cloth was cast away.Satan’s…

  • It Is Finished – The Gospel of Grace

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    Justin Farley

    “After this, Jesus knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), ‘I thirst.’ A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ‘It is…

  • The Great Unifier – A Poem About Love

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    Justin Farley

    The Great Unifier – A Poem About Love It is love that spands the cosmos Unaltered by time, Unmoved by distance, years, wrinkles, Or finite desire. It stands tall like a lighthouse at sea, Promising to keep a lantern lit, A light radiating regardless of how hard the wind whips And how thunderous the sea’s…

  • Discipleship – A Christian Poem About Following Jesus

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    Justin Farley

    Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” And immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on a little farther, he…

  • Sparrow – A Poem About Nature and God

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    Justin Farley

    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 him, Performing actions he doesn’t even understand, An invisible hand directing his reason. It doesn’t take microscopes, telescopes, or theories…

  • An Ode To Joy – A Poem About Hope

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    Justin Farley

    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, but is transcended by a power mightier than the trappings of the mind and the preaching Pity pouts from depression’s…

  • Accepting and Being Comfortable With Our Weaknesses

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    Justin Farley

    “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. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My…

  • Revival – A Christian Poem About Restoration

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    Justin Farley

    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 mold me in the image of your Son. Bathe me beneath the waves of your living water.For you, you are…

  • “When Fate Knocks At Your Door” – A Poem

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    Justin Farley

    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. We have a certain idea of a family, a house, a life. But life rarely follows our course. And thank…

  • Christians, Stop Dividing With Hate and Follow Christ

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    Justin Farley

    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 article that was written by a Christian pastor. He basically claimed that because Lewis did not come out and bash…

  • Tilling Truth’s Garden – A Christian Poem

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    Justin Farley

    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, By my feeble immaturity have become aloof, Walked astray, carried by foolish pride. In your ways let my soul confide,…

  • Sing to the Lord a New Song – A Christian Poem For Lent

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    Justin Farley

    “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 a New Song – A Christian Poem For Lent “Sing to the LORD a new song” that radiates from the…


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the book cover of Nature's Bounty by Justin Farley— a poetry collection about the beauty of nature with subjects on birds, plants, trees, animals, the forest, and God.
A deep poetry book about the beauty of nature and the natural world by poet Justin Farley.
the book cover of Frozen Rivers by Justin Farley— a poetry collection about depression and the hardships of mental illness, balanced with nature poems on the season of winter.
Deep poems about depression and the hardships of mental illness, balanced with nature poems on the winter season by poet Justin Farley. Book 1 of the Seasons series.
a mental health poetry book about joy and nature poems on the season of spring
Inspirational poems about mental health, healing, and spring by poet Justin Farley. Book 2 of the Seasons series.
the book cover of Summer Days Sunburnt Nights by Justin Farley— a mental health poetry book about bipolar disorder and nature poems on the season of spring
Deep poems about bipolar disorder and being neurodivergent, balanced with nature poems on summer by poet Justin Farley. Book 3 of the Seasons series.
the book cover of A Voice in the Wilderness—A Chapbook of Poems About God by Justin Farley. It is a deep Christian poetry collection about contemplation, the spiritual journey, and finding grace through Jesus.
A contemplative, prayerful Christian poetry book about the spiritual journey and discovering God’s grace, mercy, and love.
the book cover of Thorns of Love by Justin Farley. It is a deep love poetry collection about sadness of breakups, divorce, and heartbreak.
A deep love poetry book about the pain of break ups and the heartbreak felt when relationships end by poet Justin Farley.