More Than Poetic Musings

In a wonderful blog post, which you can find at http://everysquareinch.net/christmas-the-sufferers-holiday/, the author describes...

This was written for my son's 14th birthday. It's based on a silly saying I had when I was a teenager. I used to say that from the time I...

This poem is based on the following scriptures: Exodus 33:12-23, Exodus 34:29-35, Jeremiah 2:1-19, Mark 4:35-41, Matthew 14:22-34,...

W hat do we owe Thee, O righteous King? What sacrifice? What offering? The weight of sin on You was laid The price of our salvation...

Isaiah 53:3, " He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces...

II Corinthians 4: 7-18 (ESV) "But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us....

I wrote this for my hubby right before our wedding twenty years ago. As I sang him to Jesus, I hope he heard the love I had for him. I...

When I was a nineteen year old girl, I had a vision in my head of a little girl playing in the leaves as I stared out my dorm window. I...

Psalm 51:10-12, "Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your...

I wrote this at 3 a.m. in August of 2013 while praying for a friend who was going through a heart-wrenching period of suffering. It...

This poem is based on Isaiah 42:15, 40:8, 24:4, 24:10, 43:2, 54:10, 49:13, and Matthew 28:20b, in that order. It is a reminder of all of...

Psalm 5:3, 7, "In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation...But, I,...

Hundreds of miles and twenty one years separate the picture from the poem, but the beauty of the creation and Creator is still the same....

I wrote this is 1995 based on a Winne-the-Pooh graphic. I cannot find the original picture, but I remember it had Pooh holding...

Chuck Swindoll in his book "Come Before Winter" paints a picture of Paul writing to Timothy at the end of II Timothy. He fleshes out what...

Too often I get wrapped up in what I view as my righteous deeds. I begin to think far too highly of myself. I too easily forget that I am...

It is so easy for bitterness and hardness to infiltrate my thinking. It is so easy for pride to become all consuming. It is so easy to...

On Mother's Day of 2016 my pastor preached a sermon on gentleness as one of the fruits of the Spirit. He quipped that there were not any...

When you are walking through grief, there are days that feel so oppressively dark. Grief is like an immense weighted blanket that you...