Border of wooded green
Gateway of shadows
Dancing in morning’s light
Every step aglow
Invitation of peace
Each precious shadow
Marking nature’s footprint
From its depths, hope flows
Another adventure
Wrapped in each shadow
Leaving hint of darkness
Tomorrow shall grow
Life scurries all about
Hidden in shadows
Following daily script
Future always knows
Moonlight gathers above
Night discards shadows
Offering timely grace
Destiny borrows
Empowerment’s readiness
Opening one more door
Flavoring each outcome
Opportunity explores
Brainstorming’s invitation
Embracing new content
Craving experience
Vision allowed to ferment
Designated improvements
Surveying future needs
Climbing today’s ladder
Each study’s answers exceed
Another weekend arrives
Rising with extra time
Healing breathes from each zone
Another memory rhymes
Life dances through one more scene
Shaping legacy’s place
Reading yesterday’s script
Time to utilize “backspace”
Shadows of homelessness
No longer hiding
Infringing on many
Tomorrow’s hope guiding
Hurricane season warns
Potential danger
Boosting nature’s rhythm
Tomorrow’s game changer
Demand from earthly needs
Call to serve others
Contributing with grace
Tomorrow’s stepbrother
Limits on nation’s trust
Erosion’s inroads
Responding with questions
Tomorrow’s answers sowed
Diplomacy’s outreach
Future breathes with doubts
Embracing dialogue
Tomorrow’s peace-filled route
When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
Johanne Kepler (1571-1630) was a German mathematician and astronomer. He researched the laws of planetary motion.
Money rolling in
Overlooking darker clouds—
Bust follows each boom
Filling in-basket
Volume of data implodes—
Too much to process
Climate change debate
Reflecting fact or fiction—
Tomorrow answers
Every day in a life feels the whole life with expectation and memory.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) was a British author and Christian theologian. His full name is Clive Staples Lewis.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) was an American pastor and abolitionist.
We are weaving the future on the loom of today.
There are times when encouragement means a lot, and a word is enough to convey it.
Grace Strickler Dawson was an American poet.
I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an American playwright and novelist. His gifted words earned three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and Fiction.
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
From Ephesians 4:32: “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.”
Lewis B. Smedes (1921-2002) was an American author and Christian theologian.
