Big Sky Buckeye

A writer's journey continues

About bigskybuckeye

Born in the Big Sky Country of Montana and now living in the Buckeye State of Ohio, Richard is the creative mind behind Big Sky Buckeye. Retired after 40 years of teaching, I enjoy writing, photography, traveling, and following a healthy lifestyle.

Navigating Change

Posted on June 5, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

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Time’s ever-changing river

Hours flowing day after day

Navigating change, life’s song

Destiny travels our way

Tomorrow’s adventure calls

River flows with rapid pace

Navigating change, be safe

Ambition now giving chase

Facing Niagara Falls

Calling out new direction

Navigating change, new route

River journey’s correction

River experience counts

Night’s campsite, overcrowded

Navigating change, next choice

New site empty, not crowded

Life shadows shifting river

Requires flexibility

Navigating change, time calls

Now teaching humility

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From the words of American business pioneer and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Mary Kay Ash: “When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Steven Spielberg Quotes

Posted on June 5, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there to lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

God’s Greatness (Elfchen Series #61)

Posted on June 4, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

Righteousness

Remember

God’s promise

Grace delivers goodness

Eternal life through Jesus

Love

Faithfulness

Follow

Heaven’s light

Love’s shining grace

Eternity’s ticket fully paid

Jesus

Worthiness

Accept

God’s love

Promises eternal life

Savior pays our debts

Christ

Taken From a Church Sign

Posted on June 4, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.

From Luke 17:6: “The Lord replied, ‘If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.'”

Vanishing Prairie

Posted on June 3, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

Vanishing prairie hangs on

Isolated town foregone

Time long ago, grand premiere

History fading each year

Showing up on highway map

Road’s wide spot, taking a nap

Middle of farming country

Seldom find even one tree

Boarded-up wood-frame schoolhouse

Empty, forgotten courthouse

No longer town’s pride and joy

Critters, varmints now employ

Railroad track hides in tall grass

Recalling past trains, first-class

Grain elevator hanging on

Memories live, town’s swan song

Single street light standing guard

Night’s shadows, lasting vanguard

Yesteryear’s grandest of homes

Mystery for Sherlock Holmes

Faded sign for Ruth’s Café

Long absent dinner entrees

Movie theater shuttered

Smelling fresh popcorn, buttered

Few remember town’s past times

Hearing nature’s windy chimes

Past glory days, now long gone

Dim sunset, well past its dawn

During my teaching career, I taught 25 years in the eastern prairie country of Montana. Today, many small farming communities struggle for survival while others such as the one in this poem live on only as memories.

Charles Stanley Quote

Posted on June 3, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

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Are you carrying a heavy load? God wants to hold it–and you–in His hand.

From 1 Peter 5:6-7: “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.”

Walking in Light

Posted on June 2, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

From 1 John 1:6-7: “If we say that we have fellowship with Him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

Traveling earthly journey

Living alongside our Lord

Following His path with trust

Feeling love, grace brings accord

Pursuing God’s righteousness

Confessing sins, big and small

Obeying Holy commands

Hanging up when evil calls

Trading former self for love

Abandoning temptation

Accepting Jesus’ new light

His way, life’s blessed station

Teaching life from Father’s Word

Steering lives in righteous ways

Walking in light, blessing faith

Rejoicing with lasting praise

From the words of American pastor and Christian teacher, Charles Stanley: “Are you trying to carry old baggage into your walk with the Lord? The attitudes, habits, and conduct that were yours before Christ must be abandoned in order for you to walk with God.”

William Law Quote

Posted on June 2, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

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Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life, meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God’s goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things new–created upon your account.

From Ezekiel 36:24-27: “I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.”

Life’s Better Way (Haiku Series #137)

Posted on June 1, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

Impression

Sounding like Eeyore

Winnie-the-Pooh listens in—

Stop this gloomy talk

Renewal

Negative self-talk

Pessimistic attitude—

Life needs makeover

Crossroads

Look into life’s lens

Allow bright sunshine inside—

Turning a new page

American Presidents Quotes

Posted on June 1, 2021 by bigskybuckeye

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions–bound together by a single unity–the unity of freedom and equality.

Harry S Truman (1945-1953)

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

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Worthiness

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Crossroads

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)

Harry S Truman (1945-1953)

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