Offering
Abundant feast
Overflowing and sustaining
Christ feeds our spirit
Nourishment
Transforming
Better focused
Deserting sinful ways
God’s lens of truth
Perspective
Hearing
God’s Word
Sowed with righteousness
Flowing with Spirit’s light
Encouragement
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.
Trusting God is not by what you read or know. It is by doing what you have learned from His Word, Bible.
From James 1:22-25: “But be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.”
Woodrow Kroll (born 1944) is an American pastor, Christian author, and radio host. He has written over 50 books on the Bible and Christian living.
Facing life’s daily quest
Overflowing with dreams
Facing rapids, hard-pressed
Paddling always, downstream
Merging spirit with change
Searching truth’s answer key
Riding each lonely range
Realizing, life shall be
Saddling up with vigor
Savoring life today
Overcoming rigor
Finding another way
Witnessing life’s next stage
Moving over new ground
Exciting silver age
Traveling now westbound
Navigating with ease
Following sunset’s glow
Catching each friendly breeze
Looking for tomorrow
The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don’t want.
Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.
Iyanla Vanzant (born 1953) is an American inspirational speaker, author, and television personality.
From Psalm 85:5-6: “Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger to all generations? Will you not revive us again, so that your people may rejoice in you?”
Searching to find peace
Hidden by dark winds
Discomfort arrives
For mankind hath sinned
Touched by God’s embrace
Peace steps into light
Feeling His comfort
Grace washes flesh white
Praying to Father
Hope now reaches out
Finding peace at last
His Word carries clout
Steps walking in faith
God’s love shall not cease
Replacing darkness
Sharing endless peace
From Luke 2:12-14: “This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom He favors!'”
Whatever we focus on determines what we become.
From Proverbs 4:25: “Let your eyes look directly forward and your gaze be straight before you.”
Eli Stanley Jones (1884-1973) was an American Christian missionary, theologian, and author. Most of his missionary work took place in India where he became a close friend of Mahatma Gandhi. His biography about Gandhi’s life proved to be quite influential with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wishes spring from dreams
Benevolent actions serve—
Destiny calling
Walking endless miles
Faithful boots always ready—
Echoing wisdom
Joining together
Solving life’s cherished puzzle—
Heart’s bits and pieces
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
But life never lets you go, does it? You can’t put down life the way you put down a book.
Julian Barnes (born 1946) is an English writer. He has also written fictional crime dramas under the pseudonym of Dan Kavanagh.
Pete lines up his tee shot on the first hole. Will his golf game be up to par?
He takes his stance, and his graceful and controlled swing looks perfect. Well it should; after all, it was just his warm-up swing.
Swinging for real, Pete’s tee shot flies away and looks to be splitting the fairway right down the middle. Suddenly, the golf ball changes direction as its speed shatters the sound barrier . . . hooking and hooking, left and more left!
Through the fairway.
Into the backyard of a home, sitting along the fairway’s left rough.
This tee shot looks hungry to score.
Through the kitchen window.
Right into Fred’s morning “Cup of Joe.”
Filled with a swagger and some pumped up jazz, Pete wanders up to the kitchen window and peers inside.
He confidently asks Fred, “Do you mind if I play through?”
Puzzled, Fred looks down at the golf ball swimming in his cup of fresh brewed coffee. Without saying a word, he seems to be singing the blues!
Originally published July, 2020.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills (1929-2007) was an American operatic star with few equals during her performances from the 1950s into the 1970s.
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