Your perceived failure can become the catalyst for profound reinvention.
Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.
Conan O’Brien Quotes
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Spiritual Maturity
From 1 Peter 2:2-3: “Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.”
Infancy of man’s faith
Absent righteous skills
Fed with Word’s nourishment
Holy Spirit fills
Grappling divine lessons
Bread of Life above
Christ breathes as Living Word
Grace imparts with love
Learning faith’s elements
Son of Man preaches
One parable each time
Our Lord’s Word teaches
Practicing what is learned
Holy design’s growth
Faith in Word progresses
Maturity’s oath
Accepting Word’s goodness
Darkness now ignored
Righteous living obeys
Mercy comes on board
From Hebrews 5:13-14: “For everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is unskilled in the word of righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.”
Max Lucado Quote
God can no more leave a life unchanged than a mother can leave her child’s tears untouched.
From Ephesians 1:17-18: “I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know Him, so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which He has called you, what are the riches of His glorious inheritance among the saints.”
Nature’s Trifecta (Haiku Series #172)
Each Morning
Blessed sunrise wakes
World stops its endless spinning—
Tranquility calls
Take a Moment
Nature’s sights and sounds
Creation’s rhythm singing—
Pause and soak it in
Life Awakens
Newness of each spring
Opening fresh avenues—
Sacred life takes root
Rod McKuen Quotes
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
Ideas are few, another might not come by soon.
American Rod McKuen (1933-2015) was a distinguished poet, songwriter, and actor. During the late 1960s, his poetry was some of the most sought after.
Monday Memories: Love Fills a Heart
From 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, 13: “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.”
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Struggling with life, feeling lost
Dark wilderness all around
Thirsting for someone to come
Waiting, hoping to be found
Love arrives from a white knight
Riding through the timberland
Accepting me as I am
Reaching out, touching my hand
Hearing my cries, God provides
This honorable knight stands
Sealing my heart with his love
Hour glass fills with precious sand
Life can feel like a desert
Leaving only loneliness
Faithful light comes to delight
Shining from God’s holiness
Two lives shall become just one
Uniting through a Holy Lord
Happiness now fills a home
Love singing a blissful chord
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Nora Roberts Quotes
Good fiction creates its own reality.
You can’t edit a blank page.
Nora Roberts (born 1950) is an American author who has written well over 200 romance novels. She has also written under the pseudonyms of Jill March and Sarah Hardesty.
His Healing Power
From Psalm 147:3: “He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.”
Challenges overwhelm
Accidents, poor health
Seeking God’s divine grace
His healing power
Come to gracious Father
Binding up these wounds
Through abundant mercy
Life restored again
Road of recovery
God strengthens, blesses
Built upon living Word
Peace offers comfort
Healing brokenhearted
Buoyant life returns
Praise Father’s compassion
Trust His mighty hand
Life filled with confidence
Praying back to God
Thankfulness to Father
His mercies abound
From Psalm 147:7: “Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre.”
Billy Graham Quote
Troubles we bear truthfully can bring us a fresh vision of God and a new outlook on life–an outlook of peace and hope.
From Isaiah 40:28-29: “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless.”
Looming Transition
Transition covers landscape
For both nature and man
Blusterous day taking shape
Coming change to life’s plan
Barren trees swinging with joy
Wind’s steady, rhythmic beat
Nature’s energy deploys
Tearing up day’s game sheet
Remnants of tall grass bending
Nature’s tempo shifting
Clouds reveal storm descending
Sending man’s plans drifting
Birds scattering far away
Man ignores storm’s warning
Day’s contest declines to play
Clouding nature’s morning
Storms can never be delayed
Nature stays in control
Man’s delight begins to fade
Gazing through life’s porthole
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