posting poetic prose
13 Sep 2016 20 Comments
in prayer, quadrille, scripture Tags: grace, hope, love, shepherd, truth
Prayer in “quadrille” form, exactly forty-four words…link to dVerse Poets
Open my hands
to receive extravagant grace
Open my ears
to hear shepherd’s voice
Open my eyes
to see beauty of narrow way
Open my mind
to know transforming truth
Open my mouth
to speak words of hope
Open my heart
to love courageously.
Jesus spoke “Ephphatha!” to deaf/mute man (see Mark 7:31-37)
14 Jul 2015 29 Comments
in free verse Tags: grace, laughter, mothers, women
Dedicated to my “sister” friend, Joyce, who recently let go of her mother’s hands…
strong women’s hands
shape my life and yours:
grandmas instill faith
aunts stitch laughter
sister friends en-courage
mothers mold hearts.
even if we can no longer
touch those dear hands,
we still hear the voices
of influence cheering us
on like birdsong
in a garden of grace.
Invited by Marina to write poem including words important to us/we are thankful for, on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of dVerse Poets
13 Dec 2014 5 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: fall, grace, love, mercy, spring, summer, winter
God covers me
with his gentle hand
like a warm coat
in winter winds.
He covers me
with his wide mercy
like a big umbrella
in spring downpour.
He covers me
with his tender love
like a bridal tent
in summer sun.
He covers me
with his life’s blood
like a full pardon
in fall starkness.
He covers me
with his eternal grace
like a safe shelter
in all seasons.
“We live under an umbrella of goodness and mercy.” (Pastor T. on Psalm 23)
“I am my beloved’s and he is mine…his banner over me is love.” (Song of Songs)
24 Apr 2014 1 Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: benefits, grace, love, mercy, preapproved
thank you, Jesus,
for crediting my debit
account with your
righteous deposit;
paying my bail bond
with forever love that
is more than enough,
adding the generous
interest of God’s mercy
and writing my name
into your will as an
unlikely heiress of our
Father’s kingdom with
free daily benefits of
the Spirit’s gifts plus
an out-of-this-world
retirement plan;
such an offer i’d be
a fool to refuse.
shared with Love Idol movement, based on book (of same title) by Jennifer Dukes Lee
12 Mar 2014 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: blood, deluge, flood, grace
Maybe God cries
big tears of sadness
when grey skies rain,
grieving over evil in
the world muddied by
our prideful rebellion.
His beloved children
deceived by the
enemy in snakeskin,
swiftly ushering in
disease and death
spoiling paradise,
stealing happiness.
God cries with us
in our suffering,
pain, regret, loss.
Our Father’s tears
mingle with our own
to bring release
and comfort for our
souls’ grey sorrows.
Yet weather’s tears
cannot clean
the dark stains
of hands and hearts
steeped in sin.
Only the pure blood
of His Son, our brother,
can wash all guilt away
in flood of grace.
15 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: breathe, garden, grace
Still-life form lay in garden;
very image of the holy tri-unity
perfectly cast in brown clay.
The divine animator stoops,
gently cradles prone body, then
exhales his inimitable spirit life.
Heart beats as chest rises;
eyes flutter open in surprise
as first man meets his maker.
Breathe on us, into us,
that we, so cold dead in sin,
might inhale pure love with
respirations of clear joy,
to live grace-full and forgiven;
the image of God, restored.
16 May 2013 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: grace
Just as a
wren wriggles
through a small hole
to nestle in the safe haven
of a snug and lofty bird house,
And a barn
cat walks thin
to gain access into
the cozy tunnel shelter of
stacked staw bales in winter,
Or a tiny
freckled gecko slips
itself through a crack
to enter, gratis, into
a tropical luxury hotel,
So any of
us sinner folk
may pass by faith
through the narrow gate
to live in peace and paradise.
a poem in my pocket 
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