Valley and Peak are the words for the weekly haiku challenge this week at Ronovan Writes. We often talk about times in our lives as valleys and peaks. Usually we are not too happy in the valleys and want to climb back up to the […]
Are you feeling heavy with burdens that seem too hard to bear? Do you sometimes wish you could crawl into a hole and disappear? In this troubled world we live in, have we tried finding hope in God? FINDING HOPE IN GOD As I reading […]
Mourn is the word prompt for Day 24 of #write28days. As I thought about it, the first two stanzas of a poem begged me to write them down. The rest followed this afternoon, after a time of reading Scripture. MOURN BUT DO NOT LOSE […]
A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS Imagine you wake up in darkness so thick you can almost touch it. It presses in on you and your imagination runs wild. You don’t know where you are or how you got there. Panic sets in. You feel […]
Welcome to Day 4 of #write31days! The Five Minute Friday Free Writes prompt is the word hope. Since the beginning, when God separated the light from the darkness, we have had day and night. He put the sun, moon and stars in place, and they […]
RESURRECTION BRINGS HOPE The Resurrection of Jesus is one of the greatest events in history, but the few days before it were filled with sadness and pain. Empty is the Five Minute Friday word for this week. I thought of the emptiness the disciples must have […]
This week’s weekly haiku challenge at Ronovan Writes are the words Love & Light. With so much pain and darkness in the world, these prompt words inspire hope. I wasn’t quite ready to write on Monday when the prompts came out. Sometimes it takes a while for […]
A STORY OF HOPE A few years ago, in an online group, I was given a poetry prompt that consisted of three words – blue, wandering and vagabond. We were then given time to write a poem. I have since edited it and […]
