Pre-dawn darkness fades
Inspiring sunrise arrives—
Feeling God’s presence
Darkness surrounds me
Shadows of life overwhelm me—
God’s Word brings comfort
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Keep your life simple
Our complex world churns away—
Reach out to God’s peace
Here is another installment of Monday Memories where Big Sky Buckeye revisits a previously published poem. Enjoy this edited and updated poem from January, 2019.
Unforgiving winter weather abates with a sunny pause
Hiking on hills and trails will be today’s special cause
The hiker dresses warmly due to the windy, chilly air
Hoping that his stamina will endure without any cares
He looks prepared to attack a vigorous hour-long walk
Knowing later, his body could stumble on a way to balk
The wooded trails in their colorless winter hue
Appearing in a much different setting and view
A hasty, gray squirrel scurries among fallen logs
Searching for a yummy morsel to stash and hog
The shadows look friendly and different today
Walking these trails will seem more like play
The hiker’s pace remains steady and brisk
Feeling stronger, without bearing on a risk
More trekkers descend upon the challenging trails
Experiencing nature’s offering, not wanting to fail
The journey takes the hiker up the outer route
Seeing barren trees and fallen limbs all about
Nature provides a spiritual place for all to shine
Inspiring anyone who walks this wooded shrine
A youthful boy’s eyes search up a steep hill
Locating a solitary deer, brings a huge thrill
The pace of the hiker remains steady and true
Tackling the inner trail, he will soon be through
A previous homesite welcomes the hiker’s arrival
Imagining from years ago, a past family’s survival
The unaccompanied hiker finishes the trek again
Smiling, his robust body allows him to flash a grin
From 1 Thessalonians 4:1: “Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God (as, in fact, you are doing), you should do so more and more.”
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God blesses us with opportunities to learn
Viewing our sinful ways, brings Him concern
Our Lord assembles His flock to learn His law
Witnessing our errant behavior with many flaws
We are encouraged to learn about God’s Word
Humbling ourselves, embracing faith now stirred
God creates each of us with simple, blessed minds
Acquiring wisdom from His Word, we gladly find
Wayward hearts and lost souls run to seek God
Taking time to learn His righteousness, all nod
Pursuing life’s errant ways, lost will be one’s fate
Our heavenly Father gathers many on this date
Our Lord delivers honest and equal justice for all
Learning to contribute good for others, is our call
God possesses sovereignty over all things
Conveying His message, truth will ring
We learn about Christ, His righteous ways
Staying with us to the end of our long day
Christ brings forward promises to be kind
Praying each day for mercy from His mind
Christ teaches at the temple, seeing God’s way
Bringing forward His Father’s Words, to say
Christ learns obedience, His Father knows
Taking our sins to a bloody Cross, He goes
Step forward and accept our Lord and Savior
Learning a new way, praise God’s selfless favor
God’s Word encourages us to listen and learn
Calling out to sinners, all of us stop and turn
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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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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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Lost in the darkness
God, please be with me always—
He lights a new way
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Long before I was born
God already knew about me—
He made me His own
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A life shattered, lost
Feeling refreshing waters—
Transformed by God’s love
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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
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
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.
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
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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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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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