Many of us deal with pain every day, thorns, if you will. They could be physical, emotional, or a combination. How do we find help?
Thorns: Living with Pain and Finding Help
Tag: #poetry
Mystery and Wonder of Life: Take Time To Pause and Savor
Mystery is the prompt word for Day 7 of the #FiveMinuteFriday #10daywritingchallenge. Rhymezone gives as one of its definitions: something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained One of the first things that came to mind as I thought of the prompt was […]
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Yarn: Fun, Tangles and Lessons Learned
The rest of the yarn was in the worst tangle I had ever seen. I wish I had a picture to show you. It was a mess – attached to the cone on one end, the unfinished hat on the other end and what seemed like another tangle leading out from the middle.
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Curiosity: Have We Forgotten its Importance?
Curiosity killed the cat. At least that’s what people told me when I was a kid. I was very curious, but I also took things literally and wondered for the life of me what the adults meant by that. Did Curiosity Really Kill the […]
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Simplicity: One Word Thoughts
SIMPLICITY IS MY GOAL For many people, January is the time for setting goals for the new year. Some like to choose one word to focus on rather than set lots of goals. For the past several years, I have joined the #oneword movement […]
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Birth and Death, New Life Ahead
BIRTH AND DEATH Birth and death, the beginning and the end ———– Or is it? Many years ago, Jesus was born in Bethlehem to a virgin named Mary. Joseph, the poor carpenter was his adopted father. His birth was a miracle and a big […]
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Time Doesn’t Stop: Learn to Enjoy Life
This post is an updated version of a post I wrote nearly four years ago. The poem was first published on my former blog May 3, 2015. It reminds us to slow down and enjoy life. We know that time is always ticking away. Sometimes […]
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Lament: Grief Mingled with Joy
Writing is a good way for me to process my feelings and thoughts. There is lament, helplessness, surrender and joy all mixed together.
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Valley: God Brings Hope in the Dark Times
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 […]
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Finding Hope in God and a Lament
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 […]
