Ready to Make Friends with Poetry? ⟶
This post is part of a sporadic series on a book I’m reading that is changing my life: God in the Yard, by LL Barkat. I will post my discoveries as I process them. This is not a book review, per se, but perhaps a book invitation… ~~~~~~~~~~ I watch the clouds drift by…
This post was originally written in January 2013 and I have attempted several times to edit the piece to reflect some newer thoughts and recollections. Along the way the tenses have become a bit jumbled mixing past and present tense. I hope you’ll be able to navigate my thoughts. In January of 2013, I ordered…
I wrote this prayer in January when God gave me ‘Fit’ as my word for the year. I’m editing it here as life has changed since then, refined, more focused on what God may be doing. “Father, we give you all the pieces of our lives, rounded, jagged, not fitting together. We place the ideas,…
Smiling with Glenda at Panera When I began blogging a year ago last January I was not prepared for the kindness exchanged, the encouragement offered and the connection I would make with likeminded writers of faith. I found a remarkable thing this past week when I met one of my ‘imaginary’ (virtual) friends for a…
“That God cares enough about us to desire to regulate the details of our lives, is the strongest proof of love He could give; and that He should condescend to tell us all about it, and to let us know just how to live and walk so as perfectly to please Him, seems almost…
I woke up this morning singing ‘Beautiful Things‘ by Gungor. We sang it for the first time in church yesterday and I remember asking God to use me to help people who are in chaos and pain, to rescue people who are lost, to speak truth to those who are broken. Little did I know….