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
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: RosebudsFlower 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."
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”
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:
Andrea watched as the trailer rig pulled into their lot. This was a new beginning, for them and their children.
She turned to look for George who was standing by a small creek looking lost.
“I know what you’re thinking,” she whispered in his ear. “You’re wondering why we lived like kings for so long when we could have been happy as paupers like now.”
“I never meant you to have to start over like this.” His voice broke. “I’m sorry.”
“Hey! We’re bankrupt, not dead. And all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you.”
genre: fiction; word count: 100; Rochelle Wisoff-Fields kindly invites us to join the Friday Fictioneers in their weekly creative quests of a hundred words or less. Photo prompt © Ted Strutz. Click on the frog and join in!
I shall open my eyes and ears. Once every day I shall simply stare at a tree, a flower, a cloud, or a person. I shall not then be concerned at all to ask what they are but simply be glad that they are. I shall joyfully allow them the mystery of what C.S. Lewis calls their “divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic” existence.
Clyde Kilby, “Ten Resolutions”
For Cee’s Flower of the Day challenge: “Don’t forget that my FOTD challenge accepts leaves and berries as well as flowers.“
Soaring blue yonder
Young branches tickle the clouds
As spring blooms fly free
Ah Lord, may I soar
True blue in praise exalting
Your wondrous beauty
Skyward my gaze turns
Mouth lip-syncing nature’s joy
Songs of love to You
For Cee’s Flower of the Day challenge: “Don’t forget that my FOTD challenge accepts leaves and berries as well as flowers.“
