love does good

dawn’s existential
questions ask me:
what am i good at?
and what do i love?

i love my husband;
after all these years,
i am rather good at
loving this hu-man

(by now, we have a
mutual understanding
that most differences
aren’t worth a fight)

i write because i
feel compelled to,
and fulfilled in…
say i’m good at it

poetry is universal
language; to bask in
bare beauty of words
is to love like a nerd

prayer is life breath,
God is always near
whether or not i can
feel (or love) Him

Jesus is easy to love
but harder to obey…
“we love because he
first loved us,” yes!

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“All the Love” February journaling prompts with Dawn at:

a poem in my pocket