Following
Truth’s path
God’s trusted light
Filled with renewing hope
Preparing
Navigating
Journey ahead
God’s defining promises
Hope front and center
Encouraging
Embracing
Eternity’s joy
God’s merciful love
Hope fills another heart
Overflowing
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.
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Hope is further nourished when faith stays connected with the Lord’s light.
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(Updated September 5)
The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.
From Matthew 7:13-14: “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was a Scottish evangelist and Christian teacher. Following his death from an illness while in Egypt during World War I, his wife took on the task of transcribing the detailed notes she had written from his lectures and sermons. Gertrude Hobbs Chambers’ efforts resulted in the publication in 1924 of MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST. I frequently read from this devotional, and it has greatly deepened my faith and understanding of God’s Word.
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Autumn’s falling leaves refresh ourselves like sweetest drops of rain.
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(Updated September 4)
From Hebrews 10:23: “Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who has promised is faithful.”
Worldly treasures
Sparkle every hour
Each temptation
Promises to empower
Never enough
Looking beyond God
Contentment sought
Destiny’s promises flawed
Hearing God’s Word
Faith’s truth becomes known
Sin’s journey fades
Dark promises stand alone
Honesty breathes
Eternity stands
Spirit leads on
Promised grace, as Father planned
Walking with Christ
Following hope’s light
Leaving darkness
Promising love, always bright
From Lamentations 3:22-23: “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.”
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No one is immune from the temptation to sin, but a willingness to embrace Christ’s light of forgiveness will supplant the darkness.
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(Updated September 3)
Too many Christians have geared their program to please, to entertain, and to gain favor from this world. We are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this age we can become.
From John 15:19: “ If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
Billy Graham (1918-2018) was an American Christian evangelist.
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As Americans, our nation heals and comes together when we can be open and honest about remembering the failed experiments from our nation’s past.
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(Updated September 2)
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Each shared memory helps to keep the light on for another tomorrow.
Do you write a daily journal? This inspiring thought comes from my journal, and much of what is written in my journal comes from reading and commenting on other bloggers’ posts. Thanks to many of you for adding so much to my journal.
(Updated September 1)
From Titus 2:11-12: “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly.”
Creator’s grace at work
Chips away at inner soul
Molding changes with purpose
Character becomes whole
Spirit calmly at work
Transformation from within
Leading with heavenly light
Word’s breath no longer thin
Savior’s presence at work
Every parable speaks
Teaching with His gentle touch
Mercy leads to each peak
Faith’s endurance at work
Nope nurtured in Christ above
Maturing with each seed sown
Confident in His love
Man’s faithfulness at work
Warmed by each morning’s sunrise
Following God’s commandments
Integrity shall rise
From Hebrews 6:17-18: “In the same way, when God desired to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of His purpose, He guaranteed it by an oath, so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.”
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