Season to Season

From Ecclesiastes 3:1:  “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

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Life’s journey moves into another season

Advancing time, with its definite reasons

 

Memories of seasons, they forever last

Recalling God’s creation, from seasons past

 

Life renews each and every spring

Arriving now, robins begin to sing

 

Harsh, dark winter—absent for good

Sending nourishing rains, because God could

 

Spring’s greenery gives way to summer

Seeing color-filled blossoms, never a bummer

 

Gardens filling with color and shapes

Maturing crops, waiting for harvest’s date

 

With summer’s waning days, autumn arrives

Changing colors, bring another fall alive

 

Maples, oaks, and others astound us

Feeling cooler temperatures, without any fuss

 

Autumn exits too soon, winter approaches

Bundling up, frigid cold boldly encroaches

 

Snow deepens from another Arctic blast

Asking, how long will winter last?

 

God guides lives through each season

Bringing hope, never question His reason

 

Eventually, another season arrives once again

Witnessing God’s creation, He decides when

 

Each season fuels life’s humble needs

Living with God, offering glorious deeds

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Rain Quenches Thirst

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From Mark 9:41:  “For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward.”

Our faithfulness calls God at night

Please send renewing rain, so bright

 

Rain clouds congregate over the woods

Moisture joyously arrives, as God could

 

Bringing life to Eden’s vast garden

God creates rain, no longer starving

 

Tiny drops journey towards the ground

Lightly splashing leaves, barely a sound

 

God refreshes His creation, starting new

Raining days and nights, never through

 

Elevate all acclamation in God’s sight

Restore His heritage and Holy might

 

God’s rain yields a harvest, bountiful

Blessing our empty lives, how beautiful

 

Nature receives food from God’s hand

Adding greener foliage, across the land

 

From the Heavens, flow God’s blessings

Bring sustaining rains to life’s settings

 

Dry, thirsty landscape welcomes the rain

Renews life’s spirit, while conquering pain

 

Ask God, to forgive sinful ways

He restores lives with rain today

 

Faithfully, God quietly satisfies nature’s thirst

Christ rises, paying our transgressions first

 

Though our shortcomings are always present

Quench our thirst Lord, Heavenly pleasant

 

Drink heartedly from the rushing rain

Experience God’s love, easing our pain

 

With His blessings, our cup overflows

God identifies our needs, here below

From Psalm 23:5:  “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.”

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Haiku Series #20 (With God)

Lost

Lost in the darkness

God, please be with me always—

He lights a new way

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Me

Long before I was born

God already knew about me—

He made me His own

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Love

 A life shattered, lost

Feeling refreshing waters—

Transformed by God’s love

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Mister Sycamore

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Far older than every one of the neighboring trees

Standing taller than many, all take notice and see

 

The prized King of Walnut Woods reigns today

Calling him Mister Sycamore, his subjects say

 

With branches elevating up towards the sky

Measuring his girth, takes many hands to try

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Visitors pause to salute nature’s monarch

Standing in reverence as park’s landmark

 

The Woods change from season to season

Watching over all, is the King’s main reason

 

He holds on to his leaves longer in fall

Guarding the land in winter, always tall

 

His leaves take some time to fill out in spring

Providing ample shade in summer is his thing

 

His expansive canopy of branches spreads wide

Peeling off sections of bark, creates whitish sides

 

His heir, the Prince, waiting in the wings

Rising lean and tall by a creek, he sings

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Farther away, a thick grove of younger ones wait

Dreaming who will grow to be the tallest, so great

 

Mister Sycamore loves many Bible stories

Lifting Jesus up in total and brilliant glory

 

The story of Zacchaeus climbing a Sycamore tree

Being much too short for Jesus to find, there he be

Ohio’s biggest recorded tree is an American Sycamore found in Ashland County near Jeromesville.  The tree is at least 200 years old, stands 88 feet tall, and measures 326 inches around its circumference. 

Monday Memories: Cat with a Fiddle

Here is another edition of Monday Memories, where Big Sky Buckeye brings back a previous post from months ago.  Today’s poem was written back in October, 2018, and the content has been updated just a bit.  Enjoy some fun with this short, yet humorous poem.

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Down the road skips the cat with the fiddle

Singing and playing, but ready with a riddle

 

Feeling happy and joyous on a sunny morn

Always looking at his life without any scorn

 

Passing by, a child asks the friendly cat

Why don’t you trade that fiddle for a bat

 

Replying back, a bat was used many years in the past

Playing as a member of a regretfully bad baseball cast

 

Leaving a life on the ball diamond without a smile

Skipping to an exciting destiny to walk many a mile

 

Now days are filled with music and merry vibes

Feel free to join me on my journey and be alive

 

Thirsty for Living Water

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Like deer at a flowing stream

I wake thirsty from a dream

Tears feed me, night and day

“Where is your God?” people say

 

My spirit is cast down low

God’s faithful, trusty love, He shows

Nightly, Psalms sing to my heart

Praying for my life to restart

 

My flesh cries out in thirst

God’s love will always arrive first

In the middle of dry land

His love extends from His hand

 

Sometimes life brings bitterness to drink

Thirsty like parched land, I think

The Gospel brings forward good news

Living water quenches, like morning dew

 

The Enemy taunts me once more

“Where is your God?” he implores

He has left and forsaken you

Your tiny life should be through

 

Glory of God fills the streams

Desert sands become pools, no dream

Grass thickens across the vast plains

Springs arise, thirst never to wane

 

Jesus, the Lamb, shepherds me now

Providing living water, kneel and bow

Come, take this water of life

Receiving God’s grace, without any strife

 

Waking in the darkness of night

Thirsty for God’s message of might

Making water flow from a stone

Split open by God’s blessed tone

 

The Enemy’s spirit no longer swarms

Thirst for righteousness, defeats any storms

All who thirst, seek God’s altar

Holy Spirit’s living water, never falters

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Coast to Coast

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Sightseeing from Atlantic to Pacific coasts

Experiencing America, with much to boast

 

Lady Liberty’s gleaming torch welcomes all

Blazing autumn colors define Vermont’s fall

 

Appalachians conceal valleys, nestled with small towns

Nashville plays music for biggest “Country” hoedown

 

Florida’s Everglades house gators galore

Across America’s skies, bald eagles soar

 

Commanding Mississippi River slices through the land

Florida and California beaches offer up surf and sand

 

Interstate highways transport autos everywhere

Great Lakes provide a waterway, here to there

 

New Orleans offering its French Quarter to entertain

To the South, Rio Grande River creates a watery lane

 

America’s breadbasket reaps harvests from the Great Plains

Loaded grain, freight, and more journey on mile-long trains

 

Towering Rockies sing of marvelous beauty up high

Visiting out West, appreciating a Big Montana Sky

 

Seattle’s Pike’s Market, a distinctive place to treasure

California’s redwoods, their height is one to measure

 

Arid Southwest rains bloom flowers throughout the land

Grand Canyon’s brilliant scenery plays a winning hand

 

Finally reaching the Pacific coast at long last

The Golden Gate Bridge arrives much too fast

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Praying for America

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Being a Christian with benevolence residing in my heart, I pray daily for America.  With a positive outlook, let us never forsake our nation or any nation.  Because we can learn and apply many lessons from America’s roots; may we, as a nation and as a global community, reach out with renewed hope.  

Some proclaim America is drifting away

But God is great, He will point the way

He totally understands our weaknesses—yes!

From them come God’s strengths—no less!

 

God sees our miscalculations and missteps

Our Lord observes the discord we’ve met

God hears and sees all, He lets out a sigh

May He fill us with His wisdom from high

 

The Lord hears harsh words, we regret

They are but, an utterly empty breath

God will not forsake us or any nation

He won’t abandon our grave situation

 

The righteous experience the arrival of hope

Those upright in hearts, follow God’s scope

When our nation’s footing continues to slip

God’s steadfast love marches, without a skip

 

Look up, always trust, and continue to believe

Allow Christ’s assurance to shine and please

God reigns faithfully, compassion so awesome

His love prevails with Spirit, always to blossom

 

We, like Christ’s Disciples, occasionally lack faith

Recall the feeding of five thousand on that date

Jesus brings the Gospel forward, front and center

Soften our harsh rhetoric, allow the Gospel to enter

 

God’s House shall not be divided, nor torn apart

United, a nation stands resilient, God in its heart

The Lord is our stronghold, gather together

Allow His safe refuge to be our rock forever

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Haiku Series #19 (Humor)

Good Morning

 Hey you, wake-up man

It’s Monday morning, again—

Hit the snooze, repeat!

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Traffic Jam

 Cars backed up on road

What’s holding up traffic now?

Pair of geese fighting

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Confused

 Home of the Whopper

Welcome to your Burger King—

What’s with the tacos?

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