I’ll be the last to turn the lights out if my peers have already flown Reminiscing with a brew before sunrise without interest in a dying sun Can’t smell the dark roast the same anyway And its taste just faints on my tongue I’ll be the last to turn the lights out…
Category: Love/Grace
The immeasurable love and grace of God.
JUST TO KNOW SUCH LOVE
seeing how you left a hundred saved sparrows flew north to drink the cup of winter to heal even the hawk’s broken wing since I too have wings I must break one just to know such love
BREAKING VULNERABLE
I found manna in breaking vulnerable confessing my skeletons first to my own weak self inside a barely lit closet with the strong skeletons then casting all their bones along with all my cares upon Him who cares confessing also to saints of the same weak flesh who yearn to live as…
THE SPILL OWNED ONLY BY GOD
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein. (Psalm 24:1) God often spills when he pours; and sometimes, so do I. Water, juice, soft drinks, milk, sauce, and the worst of my own self I have spilled. Splattered the countertop, the stovetop, the table, the…
NOT THE LAST SUPPER
Mom would leave the porch light off when a winter moon lit up the storm door lighting the way Dad crippled home from lumber camp they shaved enough coppers off the light bill to pay for the yeast Friday nights around our supper table unvoiced love was heard so clearly …
DEPARTURE
when our wheels roll off our loved ones’ pebbles and unto pavement the chromatics in crushed stone are left behind then comes that sustained lonely hum but while still strumming we can swap a minor scale for a major and vice versa even change the colour of our music; yes,…
EARNESTLY DESIRE
(The Seder, Passover, Jerusalem, 30 A.D.) In eagerness tinged with anxiety, Jesus reclines on his left side between John and Judas on the middle of three couches facing the u-shape supper table. This table, he knows, bears his last Passover meal. His disciples, sitting likewise, are in rapt conversation, their voices and carefree…
A SHEEP, A COIN, AND A SON
Luke 15:1-24 One sheep out of a hundred. One coin out of ten. The younger of two precious sons. Lost. Sheep usually stick with the flock, but if one somehow gets separated, a good shepherd will act quickly. The stray will bleat its heart out wandering, winding intermittently. Very vulnerable to predators. Have you…