Love
Greatest commandment
Energizing lasting forgiveness
Humbly walking with Jesus
Never-ending
Forgiveness
Sharing love
Giving and receiving
Building faith’s long road
Trusting
Relationships
Refurbishing each
Righteousness over transgressions
Following Father’s guiding Word
Forgiveness
Sailing stormy seas
Harbor welcomes home
Each victory won
Drifting back ashore
Future never waits
Grasping dreams today
Breathing youthful pride
Joy running ashore
Dropping life’s anchor
Haven’s quiet place
Yesterday’s wishes
Bringing each ashore
Recalling each step
Gifts for tomorrow
Fading memories
Past stepping ashore
Love shining brightly
Embracing new life
Fulfilling journey
Life coming ashore
Maturing spirit
Quest’s uplifting star
Sailing planet’s seven seas
Searching for home, life be free
Scouting horizon’s distance
Globetrotting with persistence
Navigating stormy seas
Crossing without gentle breeze
Tasting bitterness each day
Observing clouds, gloomy gray
Spending endless hours at sea
Scouting for home’s hidden key
Fleeing long-forgotten goals
Looking out one more porthole
Haunting, longest nights at sea
Racing in sailing’s grand prix
Losing track of endless time
Enduring life’s wintertime
Dreaming of home, never free
Waking up, always at sea
Knowing this quest just might end
Finding home, let’s not pretend
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Discovering words with something to say
Penning poems and stories every day
Draining cups of coffee, right on cue
Feeling emptiness, like singing the blues
Holding on to thoughts, waiting to give birth
Sailing onward, words waiting to unearth
Painting with dazzling textures, shapes, and hues
Viewing sketches, filling these eyes with clues
Searching for future poems, like twinkling stars
Linking verses while traveling to Mars
Crafting words, really not science you see
Navigating this writer’s mind, feeling free
Seeking prose, lost deep in this writer’s soul
Uncovering a few, making each day full
Looking for stories, over each rainbow
Finding inspiring words, eager to flow
Drinking more coffee, than one should consume
Creating endless text, now ready to bloom
Grasping this pen, creating one more tune
Drafting a masterpiece, ready by Noon
Writing encounters monumental quests
Hoping these words will always pass all tests
Honoring these writing moments, so sweet
Dreaming of fashioning each splendid treat
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Praying
For neighbors
Spreading Good News
Christ walks with us
Supporting
Praying
Holy Father
Hearing His wisdom
Spirit’s light ends darkness
Renewing
Praying
For adversaries
Sharing Christ’s love
Division begins to soften
Healing
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.
Entering
Narrow gate
Road appears hard
But, leads to new
Life
Walking
With Jesus
Truth’s unshakable hand
Faith defines our future
Life
Receiving
Lord’s grace
Steadfast in faith
Blessed gift of eternal
Life
From Hebrews 11:1-3: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.”
Daily news fills with darkness
Wilderness, eternal home
Future forever empty
Trials continue to roam
Standing alone, Father speaks
Hearing His goodness in Word
Building life’s new foundation
Walking to His light’s watchword
Steps marching with assurance
Trust in Father grows each day
Hope strengthened in His mercy
Steadfast love charting faith’s way
Receiving this gift of faith
Praising Father’s divine lease
Fulfilling every promise
Inheriting grace-filled peace
From Psalm 33:20-22: “Our soul waits for the Lord; He is our help and shield. Our heart is glad in Him because we trust in His holy name. Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.”
The life of faith isn’t meant for tourists. It’s meant for pilgrims.
From Genesis 12:1-2: “Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.'”
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish historian and philosopher. His prolific writings earned him the title of “the undoubted head of English letters” in the 19th century.
As we progress along the path we should adopt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is uniquely ours.
Love is the natural flow or outgrowth of the wisdom of oneness.
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