I have beautiful memories of singing this old hymn as a child in my home church, with the lights low, a great settling of peace, and sensing the sweetness of the presence of God sweeping the sanctuary. King David wrote in the book of Psalm that God resides with those who praise Him. Any place…
Tag: Poetry
haiku: autumn breeze
a crimson leaf blown in the autumn breeze says my life is not my own I snapped this photo in Diedesheim, Germany, just as we were leaving. The wind kicked up and sent a flurry of autumn leaves dancing across the ancient cobblestones. Today we are hopping a train for a village outside of Frankfurt for…
haiku: autumn harvest
orange and gold shimmer fields, vines, and trees spilling fruit autumn harvest glows
haiku: desert dawn
dawn slathers scarlet across the gray desert sky shadows soak first light
haiku: scarlet leaf
a scarlet leaf stains my parched lips and quenches what is thirsty in me
haiku: winter’s deep seed
winter’s deep seed sheds crimson and gold skin before barrenness blossoms
haiku: autumn
august rushes past September’s starting line then drifts into scarlet
Promises
Promises Morning washes the lake and pier with light. Summer dwindles to sparks, smolders cold into crisp autumn days. But the sun, the sun burns no matter the season it stays, it stays… unless the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob breaks his promises to Israel.
haiku: irony
prickly thistle thrives in the desert place, swathed in purple like a king
When the Tanks Roll into Russia Again…
Fox News made this announcement about the Russian military invasion of Georgia on August 8, 2008. And here we are few days later, and the war is escalating. Read this story. In the American Thinker on August 5th, Putin has described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the “greatest geopolitical catastraphe in the 20th century.” Will the former Soviet…
Bonnie Saul Wilks 