I wake.  Rain pelts the ground like bullets.  Grey everywhere.  Yet while some weep…some mourn, the robin builds her nest. She finds opportunity in the rain.  The worms surface. The moisture of life can be fertile ground if we let it. I recall a day so dark.  When rain did not stop, clouds would not cease.  […]

Peter, denier, a second chance.  Zacheus, the collector, redeemed by grace.  Mary, the Martyr, The Doubter too.  Second chances.  Them & me too.  Who can fall beyond His reach.  We lift, stand, rise, not on our own strength.  The broken, The Healer.  The hurting, Our Friend.  Jesus, Messiah, our Victorious Friend. A Conqueror, Companion. Yet, King […]

Looking into the sunbeam, I can see the light.  It’s the light that leads, shines, encompasses my savings.  I have placed all safety in The Light, The Life that has carried me.  I watch dawn awake from its restless sleep.  I remember that past that suppressed, depressed, enstrangled me.  Yet, I shake off memories, believing they’ll […]

A wish to rise.  A wish to rise is not enough. We wait.   Anticipate, the storms to break.  The rain to stop.  We watch, the light come forth.  We hope, tomorrow will have hope…more than today.    But a song is heard in clashing thunder, in lightening strikes, in a a child’s wonder.  And we wait, […]

You & I, impregnated.  Man, Woman, Child, the same.  A seed planted.   A voice whispering…for release, life, breath…a tomorrow.   The bellowing of a soul, a gift rich with color, originality, uniqueness all its own.  Awaiting entry.  Awaiting more than a chance at life, but a chance to breath, eat, taste, know.  Do we know?  Our seed?  […]