During the worst storms, when the heart mourns and warns, there comes a hope for more, hope for love that is beyond our knowing, love that is overflowing, love that is soundlessly growing ~~~ by the author
The wind sings of silent visions,
listening to what is meant for her,
the longings of a night’s revisions,
kissing away the shadows, the fears.
The rain breathes in stillness, gentle,
soothing away the pain and regret,
blessing the souls who’re sentimental,
reminding that He provides for each one.
The thunder booms, vibrating the skies,
teaching the spirit to believe,
even though one falls, soon they arise,
knowing the wonder of God’s fortifying.
The storm doesn’t cease until time reveals
the story of a heart who is fulfilled,
the song being sung is a song who surely heals,
teaching the spirit that love is God’s will.
When the weather leaves it’s note of conviction,
the night sings of dark’s infection,
there comes One who leaves no contradiction,
He is the reason I’m ever grateful…
For without His love, I’d be lost – dissuaded
from the beautiful hope His light persuaded.
Life is about fighting for the love of yourself.
Remember what you learned as a teenager
Take aim at your body and mind to fight
Follow the lessons from parents and teachers
When you have a career, be prepared to fight
Even day and night without becoming weary
Whether they are hard or huge, tedious or tough
Finish a great job to bestow upon your country
In middle age, you carry the burden of struggle
Eliminate evil thoughts and self-centeredness
Dispel delusions, ignorance, iniquity and anger
Surely break down while fortifying goodness
Even though, as you enter your golden years,
Keep your body and mind strong and smooth
Fight down against any weakness and laziness
Fight! Fight for morality by speaking the truth
October 14 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Mark 1-3
Key Verse – Mark 1:41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR BEING MOVED
WITH COMPASSION FOR US
Praise be to God for being moved with compassion to:
Cleanse us in our salvation-conversion
Cheer for us amidst our supplication-cry
Care for us for our satisfaction-contentment
Charge us for our steadfast service-consecration
Comfort us along our security and safety-calmness
Mark 2:5 Praise be to the Lord for
forgiving our sins:
Fortifying our faith’s firmness
Freeing us from filthiness’ flings
Feeding us upon fullness’ festivity
Fixing us along faithfulness’ frames
Filling us with His fruitfulness’ flourishing
Mark 3:34-35 Praise be to the Saviour for
empowering us to do His will with:
Purposeful propelling
Practical performance
Persistent prayerfulness
Peaceful, presentable propping
Proper prodding along His principles. Amen!
October 14, 2024
June 2 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 10-12
Key Verse – Job 10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO DOES NOT CONDEMN US
Praise be to God for not condemning us; instead
He pardons our confessed sins relieving us from:
Distress with dejection
Despair toward dismay
Destruction then downfall
Dearth’s disastrous defect
Discouragement midst denial
Job 11:7 Praise be to the Lord for allowing Himself
to be found by us in our search midst His:
Empowering salvation
Endearing satisfaction
Enduring Scriptures
Enabling sanctification
Enclosing sustenance
Job 12:9 Praise be to the Saviour for
His hand that keeps on:
Fixing our future by His fervent finality
Firming our faith upon His functional frame
Freeing us from failure-flight in His fellowship
Fortifying our faithfulness against foolishness-fall
Following us, fostering our family’s friendship forever. Amen!
June 2, 2024
I formed in the heavens; they built me in a pure overcast
Concrete looks far too weak to break my fallings contrast
All flower petals decreed a landscape grown to everlast
I will nurture them; in Sun to Moon, this time lines passed
Are you the reapers breaking their stem via fatal dismast?
I will defeat you with relentless moisture unsurpassed
Nourishment is my very gift to the fortifying fibroblast
I am not one, I am Legions found in the storms forecast
Absorbed, watering them and feeding until all are colorfast
From springs Allium till autumn's Zinnia falls hard and fast
I am raindrops acting out the script for which I'm typecast
Draw me in my friends before we are just pools amassed
This thing called "love"
Has the power to change you,
Make you persevere to the end,
Take you up, around, then back again.
Love has the power to
Make you re-define your very soul,
Drive you crazy if you let it, or
Bring everything under control.
True love is not a game,
Stemming from the trenches of the heart.
Love is something real,
Worthy of the highest honor,
Magnifying, dignifying, and empowering
All who embrace its ways,
Healing even the deepest wounds,
Collecting the pieces of a broken heart,
Fortifying and solidifying it like a stone wall
Even the woes of life will never pierce.
This thing called "love"—
Value it, treasure it, give its honor.
True love rarely shows its face
Amid this bedarkened world.
Never again may you get the chance to experience
The power of love.
Chanté Walker
January 9, 2024
"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." Ecclesiastes 12:13
I do keep You, and Your Word, Lord with all my heart
Being Your child whom You redeemed by wondrous grace
Since You declared Your love for me right from the start
Keeping my soul around Your compassion’s embrace.
As recipient of Your everlasting life seal
I keep You, and Your commands, Lord with all my heart
Nurtured with Your mercy and wondrous kindness’ zeal
Kept in Your perfect plan, I should never depart.
Surmounting trial-challenges and testing dart
My spirit You keep triumphant midst serene bliss
I keep You, and Your precepts, Lord with all my heart
Keeping Your promise in my well-being abyss.
Keeping great loyalty of fidelity zest
My faith does grow stronger along Your truth rampart
Fortifying my trust and covenant, so blest
I keep You, and Your statutes, Lord with all my heart.
October 30, 2023
2nd place, "Keep, Knock, Knotty Words" Poetry Writing Contest;
Chosen Word: Keep; Sponsored by Constance La France; judged on 11/1/2023
I only live to love You, Lord, with all my heart
Being Your child whom You redeemed by wondrous grace
Since You declared Your love for me right from the start
Enclosing my soul around Your compassion’s embrace.
As recipient of Your everlasting life seal
I only live to love You, Lord, with all my heart
Nurtured with Your mercy and wondrous kindness’ zeal
From Your perfect blest will I should never depart.
Surmounting trial-challenges and testing dart
My spirit stays triumphant amidst serene bliss
I only live to love You, Lord, with all my heart
Having Your promise in my well-being abyss.
Marked by great loyalty of fidelity zest
My faith does grow stronger along Your truth rampart
Fortifying my trust and covenant, so blest
I only live to love* You, Lord, with all my heart.
Lyric in modified quatern form
*1John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 1John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
April 9, 2023
10th place, "Proud of your heart and love" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Fire Bird; judged on 12/16/2023
God-wrought triumph*
jubilantly serene, blissfully radiant
faith-fortifying, spirit-reviving, Christ-exalting
stewardship, faithfulness; arrogance, selfishness
mind-afflicting, pride-crashing, heart-breaking
carnally braced, covetously engaged
self-glorifying loss
*Psalm 92:4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
August 13, 2022
The jogger with goal in mind,
Slings stress right with each climb
The jogger jogs with cells renewed
When oxygen flows fresh, like
Hemoglobin running through and through
The Jogger jogs on wings of breeze
With chalice of serenity
Fortifying and free
The jogger faces no darkened cloud
Just thoughts reaching heavenward
The jogger is bling to negativity
While breathing in fresh joy
Flowing from God's green bounty
But if jogging isn't your thing,
You can flex, stretch, and breathe
With energizing thoughts befitting.
*
A sign posted in front of the library tells of
no internet service available - good heavens what to do?
the rain has waned the sun is coming on which lends
a never be daunted air and so I mosey on over
to Tompkins Square crooning the living is easy (well sometimes)
tucking into the park - ah summer city squalor
please step aside I think as I plonk down on the bench
in front of a towering tree that provides a splash of graceful shelter.
A freshly planted batch of flowers nearby
and their sweet flickering scent are cleansing the air
as I gaze up at a bluebird who has settled on the magnificent tree branch overhead and proceeds to bestow on me a veritable symphony of musicality-
oh sweet mercy - such an array of notes - abundant blessings abound!
the flowers providing a feast of aromatic bliss while bursting iridescent and the bird of blue rendering the air lyrically alive with gentle sound
while the tree gives one and all the breath of living . . .
I take it in and breathe it in and it is good
dear friends many thanks for fortifying the bone to back
and for suffusing my morning with the exquisite.
And just think they're services are always available
We all make choices in life:
sometimes, it's the small
seemingly insignificant
little things that can corrupt the heart
and assault the soul:
or make a positive difference in someone's life.
We try to shore up our convictions
using alternative facts, logic, pride, and hubris:
and yet end up fortifying frustration,
anger, and contempt.
For we're all human,
sharing the frailties intrinsic to our species.
No one is immune to failure,
and some have stumbled and fallen
through the cracks,
living in the shadows of life.
No one wants poverty.
And yet, it thrives all around us.
The city’s reaction to the homeless
is unapologetic and stern:
fueled by scorn, as opposed to love.
And society's deafening silence
speaks volumes;
sanctioning policies
lacking in compassion and understanding.
Our choices define us.
Some reveal humanity's heart,
while some sully humanity's soul.
Eye contact is
grey and clear.
I don't hear
screaming...
then
two small children
fidget
and speak in
fortifying walls...
and then
my lips are parched
and I can't swallow.
I marvel at them,
like two white doves
waiting to take flight.
I tilt my head
to see
flesh
and bone
and ash.
2/21/2021
Credit: Someone You Love Is Gone by Gurjinder Basran, Page 9
Worshiping God* in spirit’s truthfulness
Sublime freedom enjoyed by blissful soul
Exulting the sovereign King of kings
Upheld firmly by the Constitution
Indeed, victorious blessed liberty.
Communing with the Lord brings sure triumph
Since settling in His presence gives delight
Fortifying hope while strengthening trust
Propelling fervent service of joyous zest
In building lives for productive pursuits.
Precious moment is never lost with Christ
Soul is revived in yielding to His grip
Illumining brightly helpfulness' glow
Diligent for serene volunteer work
Exuding love stirred by mercy’s presence.
*John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
September 9, 2020
Merciful and loving Father,
Thank You for forgiving my faults and flaws
and fortifying me with the favor of Your friendship.
I fervently vow to You, my fidelity and loyalty.
I will be Your faithful servant forever,
for You are my fortress in times of great fear.
Sovereign Shepherd, You offered Your firstborn Son
as a sacrificial savior for the sins of mankind.
I will follow in His footsteps, forgiving others
as You so frequently save me from my failings.
My Divine Father, my Friend, my God,
I'm fond of feasting on the fine fruits
of the Holy words offered to Your fold...
the fealty of Your devout flock, and I face my future
with forbearance, as prophecies are being fulfilled.
September 1, 2020
Alliteration Regarding Relationship with God
Sponsored by: Beata Augustin
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