Darkening clouds form
Tomorrow without light
Fractured hope moans
Breathing through each night
Sunrise blackened out
Opportunity stalls
Fractured hope sleeps
Feeling ever small
Foundation crumbling
Harmony’s rhythm lost
Fractured hope waits
Seeing future tossed
New avenues blocked
All trust shrinking away
Fractured hope mends
Sharing voice this day
Boldness awakens
Resilience glides ahead
Restored hope swells
Serving joy to spread
Confidence
Faith’s
Hope fulfilled
Reading Father’s Word
Embracing is world unseen
Assurance
Commitment
Faith’s
Promised tomorrow
Shadowing Resurrection’s light
Walking in Christ’s footprints
Obedience
Resilience
Faith’s
Delivered script
Impossible becoming possible
Hearing each angelic response
Opportunity
Submission’s
Trusted journey
Transformation through Jesus
Envisioning beyond man’s world
Resilience
Eternity’s
Treasured peace
Reconciliation through Jesus
Receiving mercy’s forgiving breath
Fulfillment
Truth’s
Dedicated light
Redemption through Jesus
Welcoming every resolute step
Endurance
Quelling emotions
Welcome each blossoming change—
Sunrise sets table
Friend’s steady guidance
Tomorrow’s journey brightens—
Today’s welcome steps
Encouragement’s light
Harvest of welcome choices—
Resilience well-knit
Readiness
Destiny awakened
Walking with Jesus
Overcoming trials with joy
Perseverance
Submission
Faith tested
Believing in Jesus
Accepting His eternal love
Resilience
Prayer
Hope embraced
Kneeling before Jesus
Transforming away from doubt
Endurance
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.
Resilience is not about achieving big, extraordinary things for God; it’s about living an ordinary life in a beautiful way, loving others as Christ has loved us.
From Ephesians 5:19-21: “As you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to one another, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts, giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, being subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.”
Brian Keepers is an American pastor who has served in the ministry for over 20 years.
From John 15:4-5: “Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.”
Sometimes in life, failure knocking
Darkest times, odds stacked against us
God always, ready and able
His greatness, witness Glory’s plus
Heaven’s Father never ceases
Life’s moments of weakness erased
God always, ready and able
Strengthened, with His sweetest foretaste
Abraham’s Sarah, doubts the Lord
Blessing comes with birth of a boy
God always, ready and able
His covenant, flowing with joy
Hebrew slaves hunger for freedom
Moses feels uncertain, with fear
God always, ready and able
Israel now freed, while He steers
Toiling and sweating in darkness
Accomplish little on our own
God always, ready and able
His hope and peace, faith’s firm backbone
Coming to the Lord, trusting Him
Follow His path, at life’s crossroads
God always, ready and able
Willing to lift burdensome loads
From Matthew 11:28-30: “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Originally published January, 2021.
Winter’s white blanket covers frozen land
Sheltering nature’s glory until spring
Arctic-fed winds seem to blow from glaciers
Sleeping quietly, life conceals its zing
Northernmost Great Lakes transform skies to gray
Flying above, geese enjoy winter’s fling
Small ponds reflect from thick, icy mirrors
Pausing all around, boldness waits for spring
Ancient trees appear to wait in repose
Ignoring life’s deep freeze, buds holding out
Nature’s winter rest, preparing for spring
Arriving tonight, snowstorm’s final shout
Never to worry, winter fades away
Coming on schedule, spring colors each day
Originally published January, 2021.
If you’re passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.
Bette Midler (born 1945) is an American actress, singer, comedian, and author.
Stumbling
Through darkness
Sin’s fading shadow
Witnessing light at Calvary
Rising
Rising
Morning’s faithfulness
Father shares blessings
Word nourished with prayer
Leading
Leading
With righteousness
Shepherd’s steady voice
Bringing to tranquil waters
Trusting
