Big Sky Buckeye

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Monday Memories: Treasures as Friends

Posted on March 11, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

This poem was inspired by Lisa’s post where she shares a series of brilliant and encouraging quotes about friendship. Take a moment and visit her post at The Road Back to Life.

Destiny unites true friends

Transforming life with its spark

Sincere friendship fills two hearts

Never alone in the dark

Never take friends for granted

Honesty, laughter, and tears

Staying connected insures

Treasures shared over the years

Sharing life’s pain, healing wounds

Long-lasting friendship endures

Glue holding life together

Truly caring, reassures

Always count on each other

Offering silent support

“Forever minutes” share love

Caring never falling short

Life travels through forest trails

Friends together, all these years

Brings us home through darkest times

Greatest love when friendship cheers

From Proverbs 18:24: “Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one’s nearest kin.”

Originally published June, 2020.

Ben Okri Quotes

Posted on March 11, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.

Creativity is the art of the impossible.

Ben Okri (born 1959) is a Nigerian-born poet and novelist. Much of his writing focuses on African post-modern and post-colonial traditions.

Promised Ticket

Posted on February 28, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Mark 13:11: When they bring you to trial and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you who speak but the Holy Spirit.”

From every corner

Darkness forecasting light

Voices filled with emptiness

Now standing firm, God’s faith airtight

One promised ticket

Risen from empty tomb

False prophets flee every scene

Now Savior breathes, faithful hope blooms

Suffering no more

Calvary’s blood-stained cross

Foundation of Father’s grace

Now sin flees, no longer faith’s boss

Mercy from heaven

Angels stir from above

Called to gather Shepherd’s flock

Now faith’s destiny, filled with love

From Mark 13:26-27: “Then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in clouds’ with great power and glory. Then He will send out the angels and gather the elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.”

Destiny’s Greatest Love

Posted on January 31, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Romans 5:1-2: “Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.”

Observing man’s life without light

Sending grace from heaven to earth

Darkness to be vanquished outright

Harboring Spirit finds its berth

Witnessing Savior’s final task

Hanging from deadly, Roman tree

Filled with anguish, mercy unmasks

Taking man’s place, evil now flees

Sharing destiny’s greatest love

Bending God’s will upon one Son

Redemption designed from above

Breathing His last, mission now done

Seeing heaven’s eternal light

Descending upon empty tomb

Victory over sin takes flight

Overcoming enemy’s doom

From Romans 5:8-9: “But God proves His love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. Much more surely, therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, will we be saved through Him from the wrath of God.”

Living Reflections (Haiku Series #262)

Posted on January 16, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

Change

Shifting paradigm

Lifetime of transformation—

Human poles reversed

Time

Sensing empty tank

Journey’s destiny now waits—

Pause life’s clock, refuel

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Discovery

Adding one more thought

Searching for life’s unusual—

Never pigeon-holed

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Guiding Star

Posted on January 7, 2024 by bigskybuckeye

From Matthew 2:10-12: “When they saw that the star had stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy. On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary His mother, and they knelt down and paid Him homage. Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.”

Guiding star rises above

Magi journey on in peace

Leading toward Bethlehem

Seeking King, faith’s centerpiece

Destined to shepherd with love

Worshipping Almighty God

Heralded to spread righteousness

Unmasking evil’s façade

Bearing gifts, rejoicing praise

All fitting of promised King

Bending knees at sight of child

Adoring this wondrous thing

Overwhelmed with lasting joy

Seeing both mother and child

Offered gold, frankincense, myrrh

Exchanging peace, reconciled

With lyrics crafted by noted English hymnwriter, William Chatterton Dix, “As with Gladness Men of Old” offers a marvelous image of the Epiphany message. Dix is best-remembered for writing the lyrics to “What Child is This?”

Innocent Dreams

Posted on November 23, 2023 by bigskybuckeye

Sleeping beneath midnight stars

Dreaming of faraway lands

Tracing desktop’s spinning globe

Traveling with comfort’s hands

Searching for bold adventures

Filling imagination

Revolving world comes to rest

Discovering location

Boarding fastest clipper ship

Setting sail, freedom ahead

Lighting up destiny’s route

Leaving comfortable bed

Traversing treacherous seas

Sailing toward setting sun

Scanning distant horizon

Anticipating more fun

Pulsating alarm intrudes

Crashing through innocent dreams

Waking for Monday’s school day

Leaving journey in midstream

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Actions Never by Chance

Posted on November 1, 2023 by bigskybuckeye

From John 10:10-11: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.”

Father almighty

Designing redemption’s plan

Actions never by chance

Good Shepherd, faith’s steady helmsman

Shepherd’s faith searches

Teaching His flock, hear My voice

Actions never by chance

Heavenly angels shall rejoice

Angelic choir sings

Rising from cold, empty tomb

Actions never by chance

Redeemer’s grace faithfully blooms

Redeemer sheds blood

Forgiving each transgression

Actions never by chance

Father blesses without question

Father’s greatest love

Offering His only Son

Actions never by chance

Forever, His will shall be done

From John 3:16-17: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through Him.”

Shadows of Darkness

Posted on October 26, 2023 by bigskybuckeye

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Encroaching darkness

Day slipping away

Mystery returns

Sunset turning gray

Ocean’s darkened shore

Tide rolling away

Ship pilots alone

Jagged rocky bay

Forest’s darkened sounds

Nature dreams away

Each scary echo

Owl’s nightly buffet

Time waits in darkness

Future turns away

Hourglass still broken

Quiet on Broadway

Street corner’s darkness

Music plays away

Opera’s phantom

Night’s eerie screenplay

Ship sails darkened seas

Wind turns peace away

Distress now gathers

Storm’s narrow causeway

Darkened stories speak

Silence rides away

Headless horseman roams

Midnight’s getaway

Shadows of darkness

Now turning away

Destiny unknown

Sunrise marks new day

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Posted on October 16, 2023 by bigskybuckeye

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. He was a leading voice in America’s transcendentalist movement in the 19th century.

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