Facing
Inevitable storms
With patient endurance
God walks with us
Faith
Creator’s
Eternal love
Overcoming any obstacle
Persevering with His truth
Faith
Saved
By grace
Bolstered, renewed hope
Filled with God’s glory
Faith
When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.
Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest–well, that is a choice.
Looking to conquer
Bullies search for life’s island—
Mankind’s weakest link
Remember always
Our mirror’s self-reflection—
Misses life’s real truth
Life’s biggest challenge
Constructing each new puzzle—
Piece follows each piece
Flying high above
Gray sky’s lonely sentinel—
Solitary spy
Unchecked challenges
Emotional behavior—
Nature spills over
Season to season
Creation’s precious treasures—
Never growing old
Challenges
Embrace them
Fearless, with courage
Taste life’s treasured gifts
Blessings
Maturing
Home alone
World grows smaller
Embrace family and friends
Love
Embers
Burning low
Embracing more hope
Blazing back to life
Rekindled
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.
A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit around, dissipating and stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes.
From Psalm 5:8: “Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me.”
When climbing a mountain, you get further away from earth and closer to yourself.
Fear of change is like standing under a hot shower and knowing the moment you’ll turn it off you’ll be freezing cold.
Gathering new strength
Recalling past challenges—
Tomorrow waiting
Difficult moments
Face-to-face conversation—
Needing loyal friends
Each tribe walks its path
Ignoring one another—
Everyone lost
Breathing in silence
Poverty living
Suffocating life
Empty, ungiving
Living with little
Sadly, no escape
Seeing no future
Desolate landscape
Bonding together
Despite life’s darkness
Overcoming much
Home lives with starkness
Searching, any job
Family needs food
Tasting emptiness
Life feeling so skewed
Thinking of future
Numbing journey calls
Shattering each dream
Poverty’s pitfalls
Facing each crisis
Today’s worries leave
Finding work again
Hope now smiles, believe
Different levels of poverty strike the world everywhere. Some areas face more daunting challenges than others. Here are a few sobering statistics:
Life consumes ups and downs
Warm smiles give way to frowns
One moment pours with joy
Another will annoy
Mountaintop songs swell hearts
Dark valleys tear apart
Tonight’s thunderstorms boom
Tomorrow catches gloom
Miles bridge life’s paradox
Some shine, others break glass
Life’s cycle never halts
Dancing to steady waltz
Time takes different road
Living by rhythmic code
Expectations grin back
Days no longer look black
Morning rain shares rainbow
Outlook blossoms and glows
Love filling empty hearts
Today brings fresh restart
Hourglass never drains out
Happiness transforms drought
Life consumes ups and downs
Now sowing fertile grounds
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