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Monday Memories: Walking with Jesus

Posted on April 22, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Selected verses from Psalm 122 bring inspiration for this poem. America, as a nation, needs healing and reconciliation. The two verses of Scripture take us on a journey from where we have been to where we wish to go.

From Jeremiah 6:14: “They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.”

Praying for peace in our city

Loving Jesus takes center stage

Welcoming peace into all hearts

Hearing love of God over rage

Listening to cries of anguish

Walking with Jesus protects all

Showing empathy for neighbors

Sharing His peace at every call

Stepping forward with trusting words

Treating these wounds with Jesus’ care

Saying “peace, peace” with conviction

Lifting hands high, love fills the air

Standing and feeding His lost flock

Replacing discord, Jesus comes

Proclaiming a new dawn today

Following Grace-filled, beating drum

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From Isaiah 57:19: “Peace, peace, to the far and the near, says the Lord; and I will heal them.”

Originally published June, 2020.

Our Creator’s Infinity

Posted on April 21, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Genesis 1:1-2: “When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.”

Before mountains ever brought forth

Emptiness waits for its time

Then, Creator formed life at last

Dynamics endlessly rhyme

Nightly dance follows daily song

Morning’s sunrise shall renew

Creator’s everlasting time

Earth’s serenity in view

Delight in counting each minute

Time’s destiny in His hands

Creator’s faithful perfection

Ceaseless, unyielding commands

Dwelling place for generations

Harmony’s heavenly home

Creator’s time never stands still

Perpetual peace shall roam

Compassion breathes from time’s oneness

Love filling each endeavor

Our Creator’s Infinity

Forever joins forever

From Psalm 90:2: “Before the mountains were brought forth or ever You had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.”

Drawn to Father (Elfchen Series #199)

Posted on April 19, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

One Choice

Approaching

Faith’s crossroads

Forsaking enemy’s promises

Accepting Father’s heavenly truths

Peace

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Nourishing Hope

Powering

Toward Father

Rock of ages

Trusted love always defends

Faith

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Forever Victorious

Father’s

Blessed revelation

Eternal grace breathes

Risen from death’s tomb

Son

Life’s Precious Links

Posted on April 18, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Modest home’s hidden treasures

Forgotten for many years

Covered in dusty cobwebs

Docked at legacy’s lost pier

Climbing rickety ladder

Stepping into lifetime past

Lonely attic’s been waiting

Ship’s sails secure at each mast

Granted permission to board

Organized in tidy rows

Yesteryears displayed with love

Past voyages say hello

Quartermaster, our tour guide

Opening one box, then more

Years from long ago, shine bright

Emotions begin to soar

Resurrected memories

Each surprise follows with more

Connecting life’s precious links

Echoes from past come ashore

Hope’s Voice

Posted on April 17, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From the words of Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher, Oswald Chambers: “If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly.”

Thinking as Jesus taught

Prayer’s breath offers peace

Blood enriched in one’s heart

Light fills faith’s every piece

Spurring each other on

Prayer links faith as one

Devotion encouraged

God sends His blessed Son

Believing Father’s Word

Prayer becomes hope’s voice

Each hour, without ceasing

Shepherd’s flock shall rejoice

Praising Christ for His light

Prayer leads to support

Faithful mercy arrives

Answers sail to each port

Walking always in faith

Prayer fills lungs with joy

Conscious of Savior’s grace

Holy Spirit deploys

From 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18: “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

Tranquility’s Radiance (Haiku Series #275)

Posted on April 16, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Serenity’s Joy

Dawn’s blanketing peace

Nourishing heart’s emptiness—

Hope welcomes daylight

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Harmony’s Voice

Sunrise warming heart

Tender peace brightens within—

Positive outlook

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Tomorrow’s Contentment

Silence fills sunset

Whispers swirled with lasting peace—

Heart’s most precious gift

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Monday Memories: Living Water

Posted on April 15, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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What dark depths dwell in our lives?

Sinful nature, lost like sheep

Hearts fill with lasting troubles

Seeing life’s well, much too deep

Returning without promise

Jacob’s well cannot quench thirst

Our parched lips, where’s our relief?

Sinful souls, ready to burst

God’s Grace, in living water

Blessing in truth and spirit

Gushing with eternal life

Drink deeply, never fear it

Who will bring us this water?

We look, but the well is deep

Jesus draws living water

Saving His lost, thirsty sheep

From John 4:11-15: “The woman said to Him, ‘Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?’ Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’ The woman said to Him, ‘Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.'”

Originally published June, 2020.

Heaven’s Gate

Posted on April 14, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Psalm 118:19: “Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.”

Glorious morning light

Blessings from Father’s heart

Angelic voices praise

Calling out faith’s fresh start

Tomb forever empty

Raising Messiah’s love

Hallelujah’s sing out

Praising heavens above

Risen Savior conquers

Draining river of sin

New covenant flowing

Uplifting quest begins

Divine plans now fulfilled

Spreading faith’s greatest news

Darkness vanquished at last

Breathing from mercy’s view

Bridge built to Heaven’s gate

Fulfilling gift of grace

Good Shepherd holds its key

Seeing at last, His face

From John 10:9: “[Jesus speaking] I am the gate. Whoever enters by Me will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.”

Steady Hand (Elfchen Series #198)

Posted on April 12, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Bestowing

Sunset

Tomorrow’s worries

Spirit’s grace resets

Waking to morning’s peace

Sunrise

Bearing

Burdens

Multiply baggage

Calvary breathes mercy

Jesus carries every piece

Lifted

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Leading

Unmatched

Tidal wave

Facing major decisions

Father guides each step

Wisdom

This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.

Amongst Brightest Stars

Posted on April 11, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Another school day, found in learning’s shrine

Thoughts seeking adventure’s breath of escape

Youth deserves to fill tomorrow’s headlines

Endless visions gathered, flight plan takes shape

Looking up into heavens’ blackened sky

Seeking to travel amongst brightest stars

Dreaming of final frontier, flying high

Searching incessant mysteries afar

Piloting starship of latest design

Fascinating discoveries in view

Transforming as universe redefines

Unlocking galaxy’s intimate clues

Departing from mankind’s earthly cocoon

Reading Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon”

This poem has been crafted as a sonnet: Note the four stanzas filled out with 14 lines, each line contains a total of 10 syllables, and the consistent rhyming pattern connects every other line in each stanza. It is doubtful that William Shakespeare ever considered designing a sonnet around this theme. Renowned French writer Jules Verne published one of literature’s earliest science-fiction novels, From the Earth to the Moon, in 1865.

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One Choice

Nourishing Hope

Forever Victorious

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Serenity’s Joy

Harmony’s Voice

Tomorrow’s Contentment

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Bestowing

Bearing

Leading

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