I’m seeking to live
A life that shows forth joy
In all circumstances
Filled with the Christ’s fragrance
And the fruit of His Spirit
Tanka
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22,23
Afraid?
What is “the thing”?
What is the “that” in you
Which is so big it causes such
Great Fear?
Wonder if someday it suddenly
Becomes real and comes?
What will you do?
Panic?
Or Pray?
What will you do?
Will you fight or just freeze?
Will you crumble in trepidation?
I know
What i would do because it’s come.
And I am trusting God
To remove it
From me.
Double Butterfly Cinquain
Job 3:25–“For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.”
A calm word went forth
Silently soothing a soul
Like a gentle breeze
Senryu
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. Proverbs 25:11
I am but a speck
One among a million lights
Yet the glow within
Dispels the darkness without
And brings hope to the world
Tanka
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matthew 5:16
Teardrops
Fell over the years
Many tears, many fears
Yet He captured every one
God’s Love
Cinquain
You keep track of all my sorrows You have collected all my tears in your bottle You have recorded each one in your book. Psalm 56:8 NLT
Foggy Christmas Eve.
Needing a Daystar and Guide
To help find the Way.
Who will be my guiding Light?
Who’ll my Helper be,
In this world of dark and fright?
Lost in the darkness,
Crying out to the King on high!
He sends to earth His Prince of Peace.
Choka
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. –Jesus. John 12:46
“Death and life are in
The power of the tongue”
Consider this daily
Before you unlease words.
Of which do you choose to speak?
Tanka
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Proverbs 18:21
The Autumn wind whispers
November trees bow their heads
Squirrel runs for shelter
Earth begins to quake and shake
Mankind is oblivious
Tanka
So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Matthew 24:33
We will all fade as a leaf.
Do we not know this?
What to do?
Quinzaine
….we all fade as a leaf -Isaiah 64:6
Bound about my neck,
Written on my heart’s tablet,
See Mercy and Truth.
I will keep them very close.
If they never leave,
I will find high esteem and
I will find favor,
With God and with all mankind.
This is the word of the LORD.
Choka
Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart, And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 3:3-4 NKJV
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