FAITH IN GOD WHO PUTS HIS WORDS IN OUR MOUTHS
...August 12 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Jeremiah 1-3
Key Verse – Jeremiah 1:9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my...
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Categories:
outreaching, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
FAITH IN GOD WHO UPHOLDS US OF OUR OATH
...January 25 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 22-24
Key Verse – Exodus 22:11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's...
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Categories:
outreaching, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR EXHORTING US TO HAVE FAITH IN HIM
...October 10 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Matthew 21-22
Key Verse – Matthew 21:21-22 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye s...
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Categories:
outreaching, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
THE DOCTOR'S PRAYER
...They come to us, both young and old,
Plagued by ailments, manifold.
Suffering obvious in their eyes,
Thinking, am I soon to die?
Tortured, plaintive souls outreaching,
Voices that are so bese...
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Categories:
outreaching, dedication, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ARISING TO HELP US
...July 10 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 132-137
Key Verse – Psalms 132:8 Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
PRAISE BE TO GOD F...
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Categories:
outreaching, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
With Apologies to Mister Poe
...Late at night I hear their screeching,
Feel their evil arms outreaching
Like some minister a-preaching
In a temple made of light.
How my poor ears get to ringing,
As a band of angels shrilly si...
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Categories:
outreaching, anxiety, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Lord God, You Are My Spiritual Thirst's Divine Quencher
...October 6 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on John 7-8
Key Verse – John 7:37-38 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let h...
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Categories:
outreaching, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Lord God, You Are My Glad Tidings Revealer
...September 24 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 8-9
Key Verse – Luke 8:1 And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing t...
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Categories:
outreaching, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Lord God, You Are My Ever-Present Emmanuel
...September 5 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Matthew 1-4
Key Verse – Matthew 1: 23Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, And they shall call his name ...
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Categories:
outreaching, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Metaphor of Inverted Tree
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Our Life......As An ...inverted......tree
Asvatha it is called
it is tree of life,
Name implies:
‘Not Forever’
Inverted it is
has its roots
in the s...
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Categories:
outreaching, analogy, imagery, life, myth,
Form: Concrete
Gazing Off
...I have often gazed
up at the sky, and
off at the sea – sensing
a certain innate airiness
about me; told of relationship
between fishes and me –
the firm of land perhaps
only relative to my ...
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Categories:
outreaching, science, senses, spiritual, technology,
Form: Free verse
Joy Breeds Hope
...Joy Breeds Hope
As my eyes look up to bright sunny skies
And I view soft shape shifting clouds float by
I feel hope instilled through my joyful eyes.
I take a deep breath, let out a long...
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Categories:
outreaching, beautiful, earth, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Why I Loved Cd Poem: Disposable Wisdom
...Disposable Wisdom
Each day Annie Lesley opened a can
Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling
As she sat with her cat and ate pet food
What is wrong with this elder’s rendering?
Pride swallow...
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Categories:
outreaching, bereavement, death of a
Form: Verse
Fermata
...You are a sustained landscape
one that changes only when you smile or frown,
a fermata, an endless note
something akin to love strung-out,
pulled thin
until it vibrates at the same tone
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Categories:
outreaching, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Celestial Amethyst
...An amethyst ethereal was seen
in Herculean constellation grand
of gem’s celestial purple-splendored sheen
within a dying star’s outreaching strand.
In vivid planetary nimbus show
its death in li...
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Categories:
outreaching, death, earth, image, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
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