Breathe
Breathe
In and Out
of This Spirit,
Ancient and Holy
Exists, giving You
Breath.
Owning each heartbeat,
Each sigh,
Coming, giving you Life.
Purifying, replenishing,
a Holy Fire burning,
Desiring
to live within
Us.
God desires for His Holy Spirit to live within us as ‘a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance’ and to help us become His new creation, ‘the old is passed away’. Praise God!!
My husband and I went walking along our river’s greenway today(the most germ-free place we could find) and took a few photos. Spring is trying to start with a few wildflowers coming out. The grass is starting to really turn green along with the new little leaves on the trees. I like some of the beautiful old trees in winter without the leaves because you can see the actual forms of the limbs and branches. Hope you enjoy your day and take care of yourself. Praise God!
I do not complain to GodWhat He has not given mebut i thank God forwhat God has given meI don’t have eyesbut i have mind to seeI have heart to loveI can touch and feelI offer prayer to GodI am better than thosewho are blind with eyeswho speak lieswho hear only abusesand fight with their […]
Valleys (#2)
Down, down
We fell
Tumbling, falling
Refusing to heed,
Listen to
His Calling.
God encased in
Flesh
But only for a
Brief moment
For on His death
We were too intent
To listen to
His Words
Giving into evil’s
Dark voice,
Selfish desires, making
The wrong choice.
So, in that deep, black valley
We destroyed
God’s Shining Son
Oblivious, unaware
Of this, Heaven’s efforts
to rejoin us into One.
As His blood fell
To earth,
Beneath His cross
Satan danced in
Dark delight with
Screams of joyless mirth.
Thinking himself
The victor at last
at our final destruction
But once again
His mistake was
To forget his own past.
This Son’s body
Was raised again
to life in Glory
Rewriting, changing
Forever
Our not yet finished
Story.
So today, Christ’s followers
Still celebrate
A Glorious Golden cross
still shining its victory
over Satan’s dark valley
of defeat and total loss.
Within Your Eyes
Within your eyes the
Stars explode
Within your breath,
Planets turn to spin
Creating a new
celestial choir
never heard before within the
dark spaces of this universe.
Suns bounce and gleam
Around Your head
In your passing, trees
Release ancient root fingers
From rocky soil
Bowing leafy heads to ground
Within your shadow
Dolphins dance on white
Crested wave foam
As you smile down
Upon them
Joy unsurpassed vibrates
The air as you speak
Our names.
Our Lord Redeemer
Once broken, bloody,
Dying on a cross
Now reigning in glory,
Your power on display upon
your Golden crystal throne
Still, you inhabit our
World
Laughing for purest joy at
Each new rebirth
Each reborn child
Snatched out of the
clutches of an ancient,
evil enemy
Your laughter sings about
Our heads
Rejoicing at your precious
saving Grace
Sent to end our pain, wars,
diseases, suffering
And start this, your world,
Anew
Wintry Trees
Winter’s trees
Devoid, stripped of
All their leaves
Exposing for each to see
Their wooden figures
And bony knees
Clutching upwards
Toward grey skies
With lacy fingers
And limbs so high
Do they ever notice
One as small as I?
Long elegant limbs
And wispy strands
Of twiggy hair
No longer full or
Covered with youth’s
Greenery so fair
Still I find your
Beauty rare.
As you reach up
for cold, empty air
Tis strange, I know
To say I better love
Your forms now so
fully more exposed.
I too am like you.
In my winter of life
I also will lose my
Youthful glow
Reach upward for hope,
To find new life
in heaven’s peaceful
azure skies.
I think the trees in winter are almost as beautiful as they are in summer. You can see the actual shapes of them better. These photos were taken along our greenway system which runs along a river. Have a blessed day. Praise God!
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