From kind waters flow
Ripples of true compassion
Kindness floods the earth
Haiku
Tag: January 2017
Like a Vapor
Empty words
Have no meaning,
No purpose.
Floating phrases
Warming the air with promises
Dissolve in thin air
Shadorma
Kindling
A speech, a promise
Strong words spoken now go forth
Seeds for fallow ground
Senryu
Standing Ovation
This very place
Where I once stood
Weak and frightful
Wondering if I could
Now I stand
And all’s well and good
I’m feeling strong
As I hoped I would
This brings the thought
Had I not in Him stood
If life now
Would be this good
It would not
For its understood
In His great strength
Is my livelihood
Rhyme
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. (Jesus) John 15:5
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13
Reprieve
Rain puddles
Among green carpet
Sun shining
Melted snow
Temperature climbing
Winter’s fury ceases
Shadorma
Repetition
Don’t quit
Keep looking up
Though the path is long and hard
Stay focused on climbing higher
Don’t quit
Stay focused on climbing higher
Though the path is long and hard
Keep looking up
Don’t quit
Butterfly Cinquain
Penetrating LightÂ
Life is a mirror
Large or small, light reflects all
Nothing is hidden
Beauty or misery shows
Each heart beat of time exposed
Tanka
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Luke 12:2
Looking for a Sign
In the fallen snow
A weary winter traveler
Looks for signs of spring
Haiku
Ribbons of Life
Life’s
Ribbons
Teardrops flow
Pain overwhelms
Trials seem to grow
Hope slowly declines
The future looks so dim
Yet thru all these ribbons glows
The strong and sure symbol of Him
He nevers leaves us nor forsakes us
Etheree
Yesterday I decided to do a watercolor tapestry of my life.
I planned to use different colors and drawings to represent my various life events. Well, not being an artist, the whole painting ended up looking like a timeline of colors with some childish doodle drawings. The one thing that stood out was a brown cross that I drew, however, the rest of it I knew I would need to redo.
The whole painting had a good message as I explained it, it just needed a better appearance.
So, this morning I had the thought to just wash the whole painting clean with water and start over, kind of like a new life, new beginning. So I did. I loaded my shammy with water and washed and rubbed. In the end most of the paint disappeared, some just faded and all the drawings washed away EXCEPT THE CROSS! Honest!
The Cross didn’t fade nor change at all! It did not erase thru all I did! All the other drawings were drawn with the same watercolor pencils as the Cross, and they all erased, but it did not! AMAZING!
It seemed God was speaking to me in this, telling me that nothing can ever erase the message of the Cross. That what Christ accomplished thru His death on the Cross will always remain and that if we believe and receive Him as our Savior and Lord He will never leave us nor forsake us.
This seemed so profound to me that I decided to name the new painting “Ribbons of Life” to represent that no matter what happens to us in our life, if we have believed and received Jesus as our Savior and Lord, He will always be there with us thru it all!
Life’s Tapestry
Weaved with the color of joy
Stained with the color of pain
Threads that hope does employ
Weaved with the color of joy
Moments of small things that annoy
Seasons filled full with rain
Weaved with the color of joy
Stained with the color of pain
Moments time can’t destroy
Memories that always remain
A perfect pattern they deploy
Moments time can’t destroy
Our private life convoy
Showing exciting and mundane
Moments time can’t destroy
Memories that always remain
Double Triolet
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 