Tag: Spirituality
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The Beauty of the Divine – A Poem
Your beauty transcends my understanding. Every blade of grass is a work of art. The simplicity of snow falling on a cold, winter morning Is enough to open and convict my heart. How is it that my eyes could have been blind To a vision and a body large enough to hold the stars? Pride…
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Surrendering and Serving God
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” (Matthew 6:24) God really worked on my heart last night thinking about this topic. I have been in a season…
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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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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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Morning’s Pupil – A Poem About Finding God in Nature’s Beauty
Morning’s Pupil – A Poem About Finding God in Nature’s Beauty The cool, clean air welcomes me from my slumber. Dark nothingness surrounds me like a safe cocoon, like a nurturing womb that shuts out all the distractions and clutter and noise and anxieties and all my insecurities until it’s just You and me, connected…
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Dancing With God
I saw you at the dance, glanced at you from the corner of my eye. But I was much too concerned with my appearance, felt too stained and ugly, so I let you walk on by. I watched you jiving out on the floor, wondering what it’d feel like in your arms, to sway to…
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When Love Stepped Off His Throne
Strung high above, dangling and dancing among the darkest night, shines a light for all – a star that guides to the bread of life. A mighty King lies in a strange, wooden bed wrapped in unclean robes and lying on a pillow of straw, ox and ass gathered by his head. A beautiful Servant,…
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Emmanuel – God With Us
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel…For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 7:14;9:6) It’s very common…
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The Cries of the Sheep
The sheep lie scattered across the valley, each one willfully wandering away from the fold. Heads down, walking blind, grazing on grass that devours the soul. Yet, the evening leaves them frightened, and the darkness shakes them, shivering in the cold. They each look out across the withered pastures, surprised to find themselves so far…
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To Be Human
I once believed I was a wallflower, A seed sown in an empty field, Thinking thoughts and speaking in tongues No one could understand, A circus clown performing to a crowd of empty seats, Alienated. Ostracized. Alone. But the more I observe the human condition, The more I see that no one is spared from…
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Showing the Gospel – Love One Another
“He [Jesus] laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him…When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed…
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The Sailor
Release me – free to move loosely, like the waters of the river bend. Blow me across the sands of time, like blades of grass in the summer wind. Throw me into the chaos of your order. Tear down these walls of imprisonment. Unchain the thoughts that hold me as a prisoner in a world…
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A Change of Perspective
Recently, I’ve been reading a book called “He Walks Among Us – Encounters With Christ In A Broken World” by Richard and his wife Renee Stearns, who is the president of World Vision – a Christian humanitarian organization. In it, the couple shares stories of children and families they have encountered in their work, applying the…
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The Winds of Grace and Truth
God does not lie hidden in churches, does not remain enclosed in a secret tomb that only gets opened once a week. He is the light that penetrates the clouds on a dreary day, the rain the falls down from the heavens, the beauty in the sound of a piano key being struck or the…
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A Christian Poem About Sin and Temptation
A Christian poem about how easy it is to be tempted by sin and excuse it, only to then find yourself bound by it.
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