It’s been a long time since I’ve done a book spine poem. I was going through my book cases recently and decided to put one together. If you’ve never done one, you should. It’s fun! I find my heart aflame from your one way love that in Christ alone I am Abba’s child No other gospel […]
A Mother’s Sanctuary She meets each new day as rays begin their streak across the morning sky. Already weary from midnight risings and drained from the long day before. She starts her daily tasks knowing they’ll never be completed: the laundry overflowing, the dishes piled high, the meals always needed, the floors always spotted. Pushing […]
A perfect messI’ve become unglued Tired of searching for God knows whatand following counterfeit gods The pressure’s offin my search for significanceJesus plus nothing equals everythingI’m suprised by graceand the radical, crazy love of Godfound in Christ alone This is my testimony-I am Abba’s childsaved by the cross of ChristI now have a heart for Godand a ruthless […]
Courtesy: my friend Lisa He looked out over the water having no fear, he obeyed with each step, a hardened path but looking down, it then gave way And the rooster crowed. A basin filled with water a servant with gentle hands he told his Lord not to wash him not knowing what God had […]
It has always been right here from the first life-giving song through every conflict and tear and in the Bride’s joyful throng It’s the common scarlet thread woven throughout history taken for granted and cheapened even denied easily In the intricate jay’s nest and vibrant hued flower in each sunrise and sunset and in the rain that […]
To the One who feeds my soul— I visit your table set for a feast joyfully carrying my own offering We sup together; I eat and drink of the vine I leave full, the seams now breaking I soak up the fullness and think of it all that day Not long later, the memory starts […]
source The Miraculous Draught of Fishes I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the stories of our lives. We’re still in the midst of our own individual stories and don’t understand how the struggles, trials, and sorrows of life fit into the bigger picture. Tapestries were once used quite frequently to tell a story in an […]
On Walk with Him Wednesdays, we’re looking at what it means to live the resurrection. In thinking about what the resurrection means, what new life in Christ brings, I started thinking about the work He does to bring me to Himself. The way He brought me back from the dead in giving me salvation. While […]
“In a way I wish I could take to heaven my old, tattered Everest and Jennings wheelchair. I would point to the empty seat and say, “Lord, for decades I was paralyzed in this chair. But it showed me how paralyzed You must have felt to be nailed to Your Cross. My limitations taught me […]
I read your word and am overcome my mind cannot fathom all that you are so vast, you cannot be contained yet you lower yourself to speak our words That you reveal yourself in our language humbles me Numerous names describe you each name a wonder in itself describing all that you are and do […]