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I pray today…
I pray today for those who hunger for food enough to sustain their bodies, as well as those whose craving is for power… I pray today for those who thirst for clean water to drink and wash and cool as well as those whose only longing is for more… I pray today for those who…
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You Are All I Need To Know
– for Julia What do You want for me, God? In all this I wonder as I go about my life living the Way You lived, giving You praise forgiven, trying to obey… In me I sense You breathing and still I sometimes feel gray unclear dismay… What do You want for me, God? It’s…
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That Kind of Love You Are
When I am at the end of all that is me You are there always there waiting welcoming lovingly. How great and strong and completely perfect Your heart must be! My mind cannot absorb it that kind of love You are my heart cannot hold it the fullness overwhelms but my soul knows it for…
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The Gratitude Change
This morning I awoke to softly falling rain on the roof of my home. Immediately, I felt gratitude for the protection of my house – for the warmth of the blankets covering my body – for the softness of the pillow below my head. I thanked God for giving me these comforts – for granting…
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I See the Gifts
Everywhere I look I see the gifts… the colors the splendor the light of Your world. How You paint the sky in the morning as if it is just for me; how You fluff the autumn leaves into orange and yellow and deep red pom-poms because You know how soft and welcoming they appear to…
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After the Storm
That day after the storm when we arrived at the beach… I was only 6 or 7 thrown for an emotional loop in the hurricane that socked our vacation… But that day after the storm when we arrived at the beach the sun was so bright the air was so clear the waves white and…
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For Ronald Reagan
“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America I agree wholeheartedly with this quote. Because I agree with it, I do worry about the current and future states of my country, the United…
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Gifts of the Morning
In the morning I awake to breath in my lungs and a heart beating with Your Love… I arise to hear the birds singing to see the glory of the sunrise to taste the sweetness of earth’s fruit… In the embrace of each morning I am filled once again filled with knowing feeling tasting…
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How to Love
You offer Your words knowing they will be rejected You offer Your Way knowing it will be judged You offer Your hands and Your feet and Your side knowing full well the pain to be inflicted You offer Your heart knowing it will be shattered into a million pieces… Your selflessness in rejection Your courage…
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Without You
How could I ever have tried to live without You? without Your breath my soul collapsed without Your bread my body decayed without Your blood my heart withered How could I ever have tried to live without You?
