Storm’s a comin’
Wind’s a whippin’
Air is chillin’
Leaves a blowin’
Wind’s a moanin’
Tree branches groanin’
Life’s a flowin’
People are growin’
Eternity beckoning
Storm’s a Comin’
February 1, 2017
All I Have to Offer
January 31, 2017
All I have to offer
Are these poor rags,
My poor attempts
To “be somebody”.
All You ever wanted
Was for me to be happy
Just for being alive,
For being created by You.
Redemption has transformed
My rags into riches.
My thread is woven
Into the beautiful tapestry
Of Your creation.
Still, I sigh and moan
While on this earth.
But all will be well.
Half Moon Bay: After the Storm
January 17, 2017
Pumpkin palaces,
Corridors of corn.
Seaside crevasses,
Seagulls galore.
Sun and rain,
Cold, wind, and more.
Escaping now —
Into a bookstore.
Past the church
And Cunha Middle School.
Past fields and nurseries —
Farming’s really the rule.
We meet a lady
On Saturday morn.
I ask the lady,
“How’dja do in the storm?”
“We prayed a lot,”
She soon replied.
“From chicken house roof,
The tiles did fly.”
“But they’re okay now,”
She did continue.
“We’re cleaning up now
Our farming venue.
At the restaurant,
The story’s the same —
“Few customers came–
While the sky did rain.”
The power’s gone out —
Two hours and a half.
Well, at least it’s daytime —
Do we read, hike, or nap?
But on sunny days,
On many weekends,
The traffic backs up
From surfers and friends.
On sun-glorious days
With sky clearly blue,
We all go walking,
Saying, “How do you do?”
Happy New Year
January 4, 2017
May all the old become like new.
May all the things that make you blue
Become the things that make you strong,
Finding the Love for which you long …
Christmas Cards
December 31, 2016
On my wall I tape the cards
Sent thoughtfully at Christmas time,
Or letters / emails printed out,
With lines of news, with lines of grief.
The people whom my path has crossed,
The people thought of, long ago,
Who made a difference in my life
Who eased my lonely heart somehow.
The people who have sculpted me;
They didn’t know it at the time.
They made a difference, then went on.
They changed my patterns, changing me.
Perhaps I do not see them now —
They’ve gone away, or I from them.
And, still, they are a part of me.
And I, perhaps, a part of them.
The Quiet King
December 27, 2016
Do you ever feel like the Drummer Boy?
Nothing to bring to the quiet King.
Nothing to give, except your sin.
Do you ever look inside yourself,
But empty finding, look above.
It’s only there, that there is Love.
And then open your heart to let Him in.
Embrace the Unknown
December 5, 2016
Embrace lengthy darkness;
Embrace the unknown.
‘Til darkness is faced,
You’ll never come home.
Accept all the sadness,
Worry and fear,
As if but a step
‘Till all becomes clear.
You’ll persevere through it;
You’ll take each road’s twists.
Plod on, ever trusting,
‘Til fog fin’ly lifts.
The clouds they are lifting;
Horizons appear.
Embrace the uncertainty;
Make friends with your fear.
Discomfort won’t kill you;
Disorder won’t crush.
Life sometimes is messy –
March on; so we must.
The Gift of a Sunrise
October 17, 2016
Maybe God wanted to do something nice for me after I had to have a blood
test (does anyone like them?), or He just wanted to delight me somehow,
but when I came out of the medical clinic about 7:30 a.m., this is the sunrise
that He showed me:
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