Holy Spirit breathes
Navigating Christian faith—
Feeling His presence
Saved through Christ Jesus
According to His Spirit—
Transforming new life
Children led by God
Tasting adoption’s Spirit
Heirs of Lord and Christ
Many Christians today are trying to find a shortcut to a closer relationship with the Father. But intimacy takes times and effort; knowing God better is a lifelong pursuit.
From Psalm 63:5-7: “My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast, and my mouth praises you with joyful lips when I think of you on my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I sing for joy.”
Proud of my memory with its endless perfection
My impeccable recall never needs any correction
As a small child from many years ago
My memories remain vivid, this I know
My family stands astonished and amazed
While my data files work through a maze
I remember many, many things from my past
Hoping that these remarkable powers will last
Many beautiful memories organized to be found
I am thrilled by a brain that is sharp and sound
Sometimes my mind feels like an encyclopedia
Please don’t ever challenge me with Wikipedia
God has blessed me with an awesome mind
As for my car keys . . . please help me find?
Follow your heart and take a chance that you’ll be wrong.
Admire other people’s beauty and talent without questioning your own.
From Romans 8:38-39: “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Burdened with sin-filling guilt
Questions about salvation
Worn down, feeling overwhelmed
Life struggling with temptation
Surrounded by sin’s gloom and doom
Meager actions not enough
Salvation ignores life’s works
Grace shining through evil’s bluff
Remember God’s faithful truths
Choosing us, always with us
Spirit marks each with new life
His love, hope’s guaranteed plus
Father’s Word holding us fast
Always our righteous anchor
Steadies weary, stumbling steps
Answers doubts, quiets rancor
Jesus pays our debts in full
Forgiven, transformed, renewed
According to His mercy
Taking our place, flesh subdued
From Titus 3:4-5: “But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.”
Have I entered into the glorious privilege of being crucified with Christ until all that is left is the life of Christ in my flesh and blood?
From Romans 6:6-8: “We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For whoever has died is freed from sin. But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.”
Innocence of its journey
Silently moving along
Life flowing from its spirit
Hearing river’s steady song
Adventure fills nature’s page
Imagination runs wild
Treasured stories to transcribe
Waters frolic like God’s child
Back in time, from long ago
Calling out, steady she goes
Flowing with perseverance
Energy shall never slow
Panoramic and mighty
Slicing across vast landscapes
Mystery around each bend
Secrets waiting to escape
Most precious and sustaining
Endless scenic avenues
Dreaming of chapters to write
Like tasting sweetest fondue
This is a new type of post, which will be posted on Saturday along with my usual writing. We can all appreciate some of the lesser known facts from around the world.
The ubiquitous piano ditty “Chopsticks” was written in 1877 by sixteen-year old Euphonia Allen. The name had nothing to do with Asian eating utensils, but came from the way she played her composition: with palms facing inward, the little fingers lowest, so that the movement of the hands hitting the keys mirrored a chopping motion.
The first folding game board was devised by a chess-loving priest in the twelfth century. At the time, the Church viewed chess as gambling and threatened to excommunicate any member of the clergy caught playing, so the priest cleverly created a special board that closed to resemble two books lying on top of each other.
These facts have been discovered in I NEVER KNEW THAT by David Hoffman (2009).
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
Fellowship
With Jesus
Walking from darkness
Into His joyous light
Forgiven
Called
Go forth
Share Christ’s light
Bring witness and healing
Collectively
Believers
Gathered together
Jesus, Risen Savior
“Peace be with you”
Alive
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.
