I love the Lord who heard my voice – He heard my cry for mercy. Because He turned His ear to me I will call on Him forever. Entrapped by care and felled by pain and overcome by sorrow I called on Him – “Lord, save me!” I will call on Him forever. Now be […]
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Category: Poems in BCF Word
A number of my poems have been published in the BCF Word, a quarterly publication by the Boaters Christian Fellowship. I set them against photos for visual presence. Sometimes I reuse older poems, but most of them have been written for the purpose.
Contemplation
Silence the ceaseless inner voice, that Interrupts, that cleaves your peace. Learn to sift the discord. Then, as Each stray thought arises – breathe. Not struggling – just let it slide away, Turn the churned up mind to calm. Listen to the whisper of your breath Inside this well of time. Now from that Still, […]
Three Things
This is the first thing: You have called me by name, and I’m Yours. Nothing can change who I am in You. Then there’s the next thing: You are the Source, I am a branch. If faith and kindness, grace and patience don’t flow then snuggle in closer. Be still. But the first thing is […]
Just Checking
Hi again God. You know that thing that’s been weighing me down? That fretted and fought me, tied me in knots? That thing I handed to You, left in Your charge? It is chafing me again, draining my joy, kindling my fear. I was only checking… to see how you were progressing with a proper […]
All You Want From Me
Lord, You have made me Yours, strands of my parents selected to reflect You, uniquely. Washed by weathered years, spun by trials and turbulence, I’m crafted for Your service with all my floundering – Past choices, good and ill, the hardest times and tangled days. New options sifted, tried and dropped with strands of light […]
Vision
All my vision is darkness. I am broken in Your hands – fragments of a shattered bowl or a blasted tree, or dried stream – all service to You destroyed. I wait with You in silence, and You bring to me the contrast of Your vision: Within Your hands, these shards are soon a new […]
Fruitfulness
Fruitfulness is not where we begin, and never in winter. It begins with a seed in the ground or a graft on a stem nurtured with water and light, set in good soil. It begins with last year’s wintered branches. There is no fruit. The seed does what it is made for, life emerges naturally. […]
Trust
Father, may I trust Your true compassion to me, even when my commitment to You falters. Lord, may I trust You with my inability to trust in You. I give You the wrong choices I make daily. and the barriers I’ve built within me. I give You my abandoned dreams and lost hopes, and commitments […]
Wait For The Lord
Where is stillness in your life? The quiet space, to listen and receive? Busyness doesn’t save us. “In repentance and rest is your salvation.” Let go, let God. Mary chose the better portion. Struggles and trouble fly upward like sparks – this is what we’re born to. “In quietness and trust is your strength.” Resilience […]
Be Still
Life whirls along – more to do, to be, to go. Lost touch with silence, with simple and inward. What effort is needed to simply be salt? How much hurry required to abide in the Vine? Somewhere is balance. To press ever onwards, or cultivate a quiet heart? Run the race for the prize or […]