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Tag Archives: Hope
Matthew 16: 21-28 Take Up Your Cross
Matthew 16: 21-28 21 From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on … Continue reading
The Air is Heavy
The air is heavy as it fills my lungs with its leaden weight For in this springtime of the year in addition to the pollen, The heavy perfume of the earth reawakening from its slumber The emergence of wildflowers … Continue reading
Bleeding Words
Forgive the words that bleed out from this pen For the ink that forms them is a torturous mixture Of a wounded heart’s flow mixed with the saline Of the river of tears which flow to the sea of grief … Continue reading
New Growth
Water washes away the sins of the night, pushing them downward to the gutters Running back through the storm sewers and into the rivers and eventually into the sea Where they sink down, deeper and deeper, into the abyss … Continue reading
Psalm 40 Experienced Faithfulness and the Hope of Deliverance
Psalm 40 <To the leader. Of David. A Psalm.> 1 I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. 2 He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set … Continue reading
Posted in Biblical Reflections, Psalms
Tagged Book of Psalms, Deliverance, Experience, Hope, Prayer, Psalm 40, struggle
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Prophesy to the Wind
O mortal can these bones live? This people who continues to dwell in the valley of death This people who refuses to learn from the past, these ears that did not hear These hands which did not help and the … Continue reading
Posted in Ezekiel, Poetry
Tagged Ezekiel, Ezekiel 37, Hope, Resurrection, Valley of the Dry Bones
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Mosaic
Looking back on all the pieces of my life Is not like looking at a picture composed on a canvas That brings together the palette of colors and shades To paint a portrait of a person who emerges whole Stepping … Continue reading
