My God, Thank You For Extending Your Mercy Unto Me
April 10 Scripture Meditations Based on Ezra 7-8
Key Verse – Ezra 7:28 And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me…
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR EXTENDING YOUR MERCY UNTO ME
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Categories:
extending, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Extending Families
What if all your communities of choice
were to gather around you
to also become each others' communities,
extended families,
of choice?
Homeless children and mothers
decompose their social-economic analysis
of loves and pathologies
with your PhD health policy developers.
Your rich and powerful associates
consult with political-ecological evolutionary scientists
and vice versa
about possible sustained futures together,
so we all might learn something worthy of living in
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Categories:
extending, blessing, change, community, culture,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Extending Gesture
Extending gesture
Lonely and distressed,
as I sat through the day,
His surprise visit !
That sweet gesture
as he made my day,
I want to extend.....
To all those betrayed,
To the dreamers in wait,
That Hope sustains life !
Written December 5th, 2014
For contest 'Small gifts' by Brian Johnston
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Categories:
extending, giving, how i feel,
Form: Verse
Extending His Smile To All Sides of Good
Strong willed you may say as he goes on his way.
his thinning hair a dead giveaway,
Each dawn a new day to endure, yet so unsure.
absent friends to remember, this cold November.
Lonely tired yet still he smiled.
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Categories:
extending, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Extending the Branch
Wrapped up in the olive leaf quilt
traipsing new ground on feet of persuasion
with your silhouette on my mind.
The wince of your eyes at the bite in my words
and arched resignation on it's way down your spine
settling into it's new home.
We free this house every Sunday
by opening the paint stuck windows
and leaning way, way out.
It's a
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Categories:
extending, life, love, people,
Form: Free verse