Winter Whites
Winter always reminds me of white -- purity. I don’t know, maybe because that’s when it snows the most. Things always seem to slow down.
The frantic growing of spring and summer is absent. The earth seems
to be taking a rest.
Less rushing around
Time to let go
More repose
Be slow
More inner reflection
Look for a higher direction
For my thoughts
Be enveloped by
Peaceful stillness
Make it an endeavor most earnest
Go deeper into myself
That inner me
I usually place upon a shelf
As I rush around
Get to know God’s peace that
Passes understanding.
Come, Lord Jesus, come.
Recreate your world and Leave your peace and repose!
Dead Wood
You see them lying
On creek beds
Where by watery vistas
They have been led Or resting on river sides
Carried by the ferocity
Of the moving currents’ tides
These pieces of dead wood
Would anyone have thought
They could or better yet should
End up in such a useless heap
Their limbs jangling,
Lamenting in such a lonely keepBut Oh, dear friend
This is not their end
For these shed no tears
Have no fear
Christ's smallest finger
Can transcend
Hell's darkest pit
In such a place He will not
Allow anyone to linger
Have faith
If you will just believe
and God's tranquil waters
You will be allowed to see!
by Hazel Straub Have you felt discouraged and dismayed by your circumstances? Celebrate Yahweh with praise and thankfulness! He is so faithful, loving, kind, and your strength..He inhabits your praises and turns the darkness into light! Praise him! Delight and be joyful in Yahweh! Yahweh is great, and he should be highly praised. His greatness […]
If you are not willing to sacrifice anything (time, energy, Money, pleasure) to follow Christ then you do not love Him.
John 14:15 15“Ifyouloveme, keep my commands.
Matt 16:24 Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. 25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
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Graceful Ladies
(a slight whimsy)
Graceful ladies
All in a row
Is it just for glee
You choose to show
Your whitest underbellies
Shedding dark bark
You simper & glow
From top to toe
As you continue to
Strut in your underclothes!
My Mama would be shocked
Papa enraged
If I dared to engage
In such behavior
I cannot do the same
As you
Nor dare I choose
Such brave frivolity!
The large old sycamore trees along our river greenway are even more lovely in winter when, without leaves, you can see their white bark even better. Have a blessed day & Praise God!
Water Crystals
Crystals of light
flung everywhere
by a force of nature
not quiet so rare
yet still not within
my feeble grasp
Dancing merrily
before my face
Oh, to have such
purely joyful grace
to be able to fly
with such abandonment
I laugh as I watch your
joy-filled dance
And as I turn to leave
unable to avoid a
second glance
you fall to return
to the liquid foam
where you now may rest
within your watery home
I could not resist taking the videos of an early morning bike ride on our greenway which goes right by a river. It was cold, but the sun was out, and it was so nice how the bright sun reflected off the river. I enjoy listening to the sound of the rushing water. Have a blessed day!
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