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Response to Love

Response to Love You are the center of everything.You exist, I know.  You’re there to keep me dreaming.  You ask me to keep trustingin an infinite planthat will surely bring peace.So amid my sadness,among this doubt,to you, I say:You are e...

Three-Legged Stool

Three-Legged Stool I feel You whenpeople do good deeds for the needy. I see You whensociety opens a checkbook to serve others. I hear You whencitizens speak out for justice.

Truly Giving

Truly Giving Sometimes,I don't want to hearwhat is being saidso clearly to me. The solutionI've already devisedtakes less timeand isn't as much trouble. Help me to see,that to give,as You would have me give,means dipping intowhat I'd rather keep.

Work in Progress

Work in Progress Sometimes I wonder what I can teach my children.I can't even help with homework anymore.Then, when I think they’re not listening,I realize they’ve picked up my bad habits.Make me aware of my impact.Let me see through Your Jeweler's glassthe gem I will be and not the rough edges and flaws.Count to...

Friend Indeed

Friend Indeed I’m supposed to be good with words, but my friend is so sick.She needs me to cheer her up, to crack wise in my funny accent.I don’t know what tomorrow will bring.What I do know is Who will bring tomorrow.All I can tell her is that there is always hope.Speak through me as I comfort and encourage her,a...

Standing Tall

Standing Tall The moment is still.  The news is frightful. I watch her rise and exit the room.Behind her a prediction of failure, of sickness, a future far from easy.I want to glance awayand forget her face. But no—steel my stare. Help me look even closerand remember only this:

Searching for Light

Searching for Light I am lost on this dark day,far from the reality.I reach into the blank shadows,but am left wanting. I need the miracle of light.The darkness consumes me. Grant me calmness in this murky place.Give me strength to endure.Offer me Your unending love.Wrap Your arms around me. Protect me from this...

Gazing Outward

Gazing Outward Whether we are reachingfor the last sale itemor helping someone in need,it is far too easyto get wrapped up in ourselves.We fail to see the other person,complete with their own needs,their own wants,their own fears.Please help me to turn my gazeto You so that I can look outward and upwardtoward something bigger than...

Dark Thoughts

Dark Thoughts Stupid. Ugly. Fat. Words like these, directed at myself, are practically a constant in my life. And those are the nicer ones. I don't even mean the worse ones — some are outright lies — but I repeat them anyway, over and over, like a mantra of doom. It took me forever to realize what my problem really was. I was being too easy on myself.

Your Ideal

Your Ideal Today I am stressed.Stressed to the pointof losing my way in life.It feels easier to sort out waysto be in my addictionthan to be stuckwithin my head today.Stuck in my headfeeling powerlessover what is happeningin my world.

Rescue Mission

Rescue Mission This morning I awakewith a mountain of debton my shoulders;I feel my feet slipas an avalanche of billssends me sliding out of control. Please rescue mefrom this frightening place;Please send reservesof time and patience,and financial resourcesto lift me from the path of...

Every Woman

Every Woman Has a Story A few years ago, my mother had breast cancer. She went to an oncologist who suggested she have her lymph nodes removed. Having watched two of her sisters go through this battle, my mom knew that lymph edema (a terribly painful swelling) would be a side effect, and said she preferred to keep her glands. The doctor, a man, looked right at her and said, "When your cancer comes back, don't come crying to...