My prayer is and always has been that my children would love and trust God and want to follow Him. God has given me a large family of seven kids and now fourteen grandchildren. [bctt tweet=”Along the way we have had other young people in […]
I wrote and deleted. Then I prayed about what I should write, if anything at all. Next, I switched gears and wrote a poem – Refine My Heart.
Let’s continue to cheer each other on and lend support to our fellow bloggers. We can finish by taking little steps every day.
God is with me every step of the way. I must test my ideas. Though I plan and try, I always find that I need His help.
I thought about the suffering and pain people deal with daily, and I wrote this prayer of lament for God to heal our broken hearts.
Two years ago I published this poem on my former blog under the title A Blessing for the Night. There were several nights where I had trouble getting to sleep. When the next night promised to be the same I decided to get up and write. As […]
OPEN YOUR HEART TO THE WONDER You may think your ordinary days couldn’t possibly have anything to give cause for wonder. But I believe if we open our hearts to receive and keep our eyes and ears open, we might just find that wonder […]
Lately, I’ve been working on writing new poems and revising old ones. This past week I’ve spent time editing and updating one from a few years ago. A photo prompt in an online writing group first inspired this poem about locks, keys and hidden dreams. Here is the […]
She walks/Leaving green meadow behind/carefully moving her feet/unused to the dirt and twigs//She walks/Eyes full of tears/ on she goes…
The word be can mean to exist, but life is more than existence. What about being alive to who I really am and how I relate to others?
