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No one is immune from the temptation to sin, but a willingness to embrace Christ’s light of forgiveness will supplant the darkness.
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(Updated September 3)
Too many Christians have geared their program to please, to entertain, and to gain favor from this world. We are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this age we can become.
From John 15:19: “ If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
Billy Graham (1918-2018) was an American Christian evangelist.
Dishwasher emptied
Mom searching, then asks Billy—
Where’s my coffee cup?
Hottest summer day
Hurry, take selfie of us—
Before ice cream melts
School cafeteria
Entrepreneurship’s classroom—
Rick’s noon candy sales
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As Americans, our nation heals and comes together when we can be open and honest about remembering the failed experiments from our nation’s past.
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(Updated September 2)
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breath.
Langston Hughes (1901-1967) was an American writer and social activist. He was an influential leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
This poem is dedicated to the many lives which have come and gone along the tracks of the Great Northern Railroad from years ago. Perhaps you can feel the living spirit still riding the Empire Builder passenger train across the Hi-Line of Montana.
Feeling a bit like heaven
Blessed Big Sky, almost home
Paradise spelled as two words
Riding free, spirit’s train roams
Scanning God’s creative touch
Mountains shaped by nature’s hand
Valleys carved out by rivers
Dreaming of this treasured land
Stirring up past memories
Iron horse roaring at top speed
Long ago, been here before
Coming home, spirits now freed
Flashing by Hi-Line’s vast farms
Cropland caresses these tracks
Golden fields of wheat ripen
Waiting for harvest’s comeback
Fading daylight turns to night
Darkness covers Montana’s peace
Town lights twinkle here and there
Thinking back to life’s past lease
Climbing through Marias Pass
Glacier Park saying good-bye
Big Sky’s wonder never fades
Ageless spirit, dropping by
Originally published December, 2020.
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Each shared memory helps to keep the light on for another tomorrow.
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(Updated September 1)
Thought will not work except in silence.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish-born essayist, historian, and philosopher. He was a leading writer of the Victorian era.
From Titus 2:11-12: “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly.”
Creator’s grace at work
Chips away at inner soul
Molding changes with purpose
Character becomes whole
Spirit calmly at work
Transformation from within
Leading with heavenly light
Word’s breath no longer thin
Savior’s presence at work
Every parable speaks
Teaching with His gentle touch
Mercy leads to each peak
Faith’s endurance at work
Nope nurtured in Christ above
Maturing with each seed sown
Confident in His love
Man’s faithfulness at work
Warmed by each morning’s sunrise
Following God’s commandments
Integrity shall rise
From Hebrews 6:17-18: “In the same way, when God desired to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of His purpose, He guaranteed it by an oath, so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.”
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God leaves His door open, transforms our meager faith, and sends us out into another day filled with our Savior’s light.
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(Updated August 31)
Big Sky Buckeye 