Category: Prayers, Psalms, and Ponderings
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Wheelbarrow
God, how hard it is to seek perfectionWhen I know I can’t be perfect.How hard it is to keep pushing,Keep striving,Keep trying to live for Your name,To give life to patience,Goodness,Kindness,LoveAnd to put to death impatience,Self-absorption,Vindictiveness,JealousyWhen the battle is so hardAnd uphill all the wayAnd when I know that the only wayI can come to…
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Worth it
Why am I here?It’s a question I’ve asked You a lot.Sometimes,To be honest,I feel like there’s no reason at all.See, my heart’s answer to this question is thatI’m here to make stuff,Do stuff, Become somebodyWho the world won’t forget when I’m gone.I’m here to have an impact,To make people like me,To becomeSomehowSignificant.Significance.What does it even…
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Big
Stretching upward,Forever and ever,That sky.On clear, moonless nightsI see things so far away,A glimpse of the Andromeda Galaxy, Light that takes 2.5 million years traveling at the speed of lightTo reach my eye. Your universeIs very big. Big.That’s the word I have,I could use synonyms:Huge, colossal, gargantuan, enormous, immense, massive, mammoth,But, in my head,They’re all…
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What is Your Hope?
What is your hope?What keeps you going?Gets you out of bed in the morning?When you face setbacks,Difficulties,Confusions,When winter is long and you don’t remember the last time you were warm to the bone?When loved ones are lost?When dreams are postponed indefinitely?When you get what you want,But it isn’t what you hoped?When the slope slides downward,And…
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Happy Slave
Discontent,Envy,Rejection,Why, soul,Do you feel these things so easily?How do you get taken over by days at a timeBy pettiness,Selfishness,Temper tantrumsMasked in quietness,In clipped words,In a bitter,Simmering heart?Lord God, it’s so easy for me to drift from You.Perhaps it’s easiestWhen I expect things to play out in my favor,When I think it’s my turn for a…
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Save Me
Frustration.Sometimes these days it seems to be my constant companion.This anger at everything,Not the loud, boiling-over kind,Just the simmer,The clipped words,The sighs,The silence.God, I want to be that person who’s bubbling over with joy and peace,But that’s so not me.I’m the person feeling ill-used, Wondering why.Why we can’t get through one meal without someone dumping…
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Put Not Your Trust
Put not your trust in babies,In well-behaved children,In a husband who is thoughtful, considerate, selfless.In a calm environment,In order,In time to yourself.Put not your trust in vacations.In sweet treats.In physical pleasures.Put not your trust in success,In achievement,In renown and influence.Put not your trust in a lovely body.Put not your trust in material goods. Put not…
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Your Word
It’s the only way I’ve ever known You.You have been for all time,But only through Your WordDid the universe come into being.All I see in the heavens,On the earth,All I taste,Feel,All this physical manifestation of Your vastness,Your complexity,Your beauty,Comes through Your Word.It was through Your WordThat I was given opportunityTo experience,To understand.To live and, in…
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Joy
Beauty bubbling up all around me, The only time of year I like driving in the dark,The lights, The songs, The colors, The sweetness, The excitement for get-togethers and gifts. I love it. But sometimes, I feel like I’m just hiding, Coating my problems in baubles and tinsel, Forgetting about the issues with our world.…
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Weeds
Lord God, You are perfection. Your glory streams from You like sunbeams on a cloudy dawn. Your zeal for justice, For compassion, For righteousness Paints the pages of Your story, Vibrant and lovely. Your garden stretches up and up and on and on With kindness, goodness, faithfulness, truth Blossoming up into Glory on glory on…
Soul Happy in the Lord 