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April or September
There’s a chill in the air
Colors catch my eye
Slipping free of winter
Chase the roses
From summer’s embers
Green carpets laid
Accent red furnishings
Into wooded streams
For Cee's Midweek Madness Challenge: September Autumn or Spring
I would be a leaf
in Thy kingdom, LORD,
to drink the glory of You.
In the portmanteau
compartments of life to carry
Your photons of life.
Replenished daily
by the fountains of Your love
sky-full, earth-replete.
Dancing in the wind
whose great power tender breathes
Your eternal joy.
Stormed by sorrow, strife
refuged by Your haven-wings;
exulting, there soar.
Haiku 5-7-5 Sammi's Weekend Writing Prompt #228 – "Portmanteau" – exactly 59 words Cee's Flower of the Day (FOTD) - September 26, 2021
can it be
you and me
in heaven?
in the spring
dance begins
to flower
come summer
time’s bouquet
radiant
in autumn
we breathe scents
of harvest
winter turns
on icy
heels, shivers
time is now
eternal
singing day
first Adam
fell, second
Adam saves
1 Corinthians 15:21-28
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.
For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him.
When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
Retro Haiku 3-3-3 Eugi's Weekly Prompt – Bouquet – September 16 Cee's Flower of the Day
buds careen in bursts
dark limbs reach skyward
the breeze tickles pink
blue spins on green
winter’s undone
For Cee's FOTD, September 14, 2021: Rosebuds
Your Goodness, O LORD
sustains, pursues us with Life
Joy everlasting
For Cee's FOTD and Eugi's Weekly PromptContinue reading “The Goodness of God Sustains”
Profusion of pink
Distant memory of spring
As summer’s gold wanes
For Cee's FOTD, September 7, 2021:
If our hearts delight in God and his face, then we can contemplate losing earthly joys without fear.
Timothy Keller
Count it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
James 1: 2,3
For Cee's FOTD, September 5, 2021:See the gorgeous red dahlia "American Beauty" on Cee's site. Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD). "Please feel free to post every day or when you you feel like it. Don’t forget that my FOTD challenge accepts gardens, leaves and berries as well as flowers."
Light seeking
In light enfolded
See joy unbounded
In chastening trials
God entrusting
Each dear petal
Leaf and root
Together joy.
For Cee's FOTD, September 2, 2021:
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.
Isaiah 26:3-4
For Cee's FOTD, August 22, 2021:
Today, make an opportunity to give someone an unexpected treat, someone who’s not expecting it, someone who’s in need of it, someone who’s outside the circle of your usual community.
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.
Etty Hillesum (1914-1943)
For Cee's FOTD
This Jolly Beggar 