Category: Poetry
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Where I Am Looking
Oh, the lies you have told keeping me chained to you – they disgust me to my core now as they are revealed as lore. Well, know this now, you enemy of His Grace – I am drowning you out with Truth I am turning instead to His face. It is there – in His…
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Disconnected
Disconnected. Not blocked or buried or lost – just disconnected. You are there – I know You are – and I am not afraid or blind or worried. I am not hopeless or angry or filled with shame – just disconnected. The worst part and the best part of this feeling is that I know…
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Come And Sit With Me
“Come and sit with me.” But there is laundry to fold, and writing to edit. “Come and sit with me.” But there are meetings to attend, and others to help. “Come and sit with me.” But I must answer those emails, and clean up the house. “Come and sit with me.” But I did that…
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There Are No Coincidences – Especially During Advent*
I left me in Shillington over a month ago. I was just so done – done trying done praying done figuring out and done staying for the sake of staying. I sobbed uncontrollably for about an hour and then just cried on and off until now… Now, when I can see so clearly that me…
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The Parking Lot of Hope
Flailing about in turmoil, I lose my breath when the news is not my plan. Why me? Why now? Why, Lord? My humanness looming so large there is nothing I can do but embrace it and sob – sob so my chest heaves and the snot and tears gush like a majestic waterfall in paradise…
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Nature’s Embrace
The cool, crisp air rushed over my face and I knew instantly why I had been so snarky before leaving the house – I was in desperate need of the breath of the earth the light of the sky the sound of silence… One can only go so long without being held by nature’s embrace.
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Where Have I Been Blind?
Like Saul, I am a pancake of self-righteousness flattened on the ground before You. I cannot lift myself from the dirt, for I cannot see. I cannot crawl to Your voice, for I cannot hear. I cannot beg for Your mercy, for I cannot speak. My heart is crumbling into dust. My mind aches in…
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Seek Me, Lord
Seek me, Lord, in my selfishness – in the self-pity that keeps me from self-care, in the self-righteousness that keeps me from kindness, in the self-centeredness that keeps me from compassion, in the self-flagellation that keeps me from Your mercy, in the self-defeating behaviors that keep me from Your grace. Seek me, Lord, in the…
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The Light*
In the midst of this darkest of winter’s nights, Your Light illumines the way. How? I do not know. Why? I need not know. Where? I cannot know. You are all I know – hence the Light piercing through this darkness. *With thanks for Psalm 18:28
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Faithful Lover
Drawn to a book unopened for months its words wash over me with confidence so refreshing I cannot help but smile. My dear Lord, You are the most faithful Lover I have ever known.