Category Poetry

I saw the grass on the other side, Wondering why my seed had died, Barren over and over again, Something was wrong with the land I was in. They said it took just a mustard seed, But all I saw…

Straw We who were Barren, Came upon this Babe –  In a time when we thought,  The seed had died, the last word had been said. Twas strange, the way A perfect God,  Could take on human flesh, and be…

There was a man from long ago, Who dreamed a dream gone by – Watching, waiting, for the One – He’d see before He died.   Simeon, they called him, Righteous, devout and old – Weathered by his waiting, Of…

Rising strong,  He holds me still – Like the sand, The Ocean fills. I’ve swum to shore, I’ve drifted to sea – And all the while, He has asked me to Be. Still in His Love, Still in His Strength…

The shadows of my fear, Creep under the door – I’ve felt them for so long, Like cracks across the floor. Phantoms of the night, Companions of the day, Sometimes I push back, Sometimes I give way. It dances round…

My title is not single, My status is Redeemed. Once bound to expectation, I walk forward, Free. Free to journey forward, With open hands, I go. Wherever He will call me, The road, He’s already known. Life so vastly different,…

I saw him walking, Down the road, light shone ’round him, Like an Angel’s glow. The dawn had broken, Night was gone – And Jacob, my Brother, Was limping along. This man, had taken, A blessing, you see, Blind to…

Their lives are broken, As cracked as the red, dry dirt, Beneath my feet, under my toes. I smell the angst of poverty. I sniff the dung of the cows, I climb the hills of weighted burdens. Every crack; like…

Psalm 77:19 “Your way was through the sea, your path through the great waters; yet your footprints were unseen.” [ On the Coast of Morocco ] All the dreams kept close to heart, All the hopes therein, I lay them…