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November 26, 2011

Taming the Wild – A Poem

The poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub today was to write about the WILD. My first thought was of a song by Johnny Cash called “The Beast in Me” (see video below). I thought of the line in that song, “God help the beast in...

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November 26, 2011

The Root of Thanksgiving – A Poem

The Thanksgiving Day Quotemeal email I got from Heartlight.org was a wonderful quote by Henry Ward Beecher, a mid-nineteenth century clergyman: Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow.  A proud man is seldom a grateful man,...

Categories Poetry Comments: 4
November 24, 2011

Thanksgiving – A Poem

Today is Thanksgiving Day! It makes me think about how perfect Thankful Thursday is as a theme day. I’ve been looking back over the poems I’ve written for Thankful Thursday this year, and noticing on my stats page that they are getting hits from web...

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November 23, 2011

To Know God Is Heaven and Freedom

So many people avoid church because they think they have to clean up their act and follow all the rules first. But these people have it backwards. To be fair, the problem may be that the church often looks down on these people instead of...

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November 22, 2011

Pastor Dave and My Tuesday Three

I am so excited about our new pastor at my church, Pr. Dave Sorensen. I’ve only known him for a short time, but I already feel like he’s going to be a great pastor to our congregation, and to me, for quite some time to...

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November 21, 2011

God’s Love Endures Forever

I had a wonderful weekend! Saturday was a nice relaxing day, though I got a lot done. Then I got to go see my son’s friend in a school drama production of Grease. But the best part of the weekend was our Sunday church service...

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November 20, 2011

Psalm 45 – Christ the King Is Victorious

Since it is Christ the King Sunday, I thought it would be appropriate to post a Psalm that speaks of Christ as King over all. My favorite is Psalm 2, but I’ve already posted it before. So I did a search on Biblegateway.com to see...

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November 19, 2011

Christ is King

In the calendar of the liturgical churches, which includes the Lutheran church, tomorrow is Christ the King Sunday. It is the last Sunday of the seasonal church calendar, so that the “year” starts with the first Sunday in Advent. (More on Advent next week). In...

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November 17, 2011

The Cross – A Poem

Last night I was checking out my newsfeed on Facebook. I was inspired by the status update of a friend who has been posting a thankfulness post every day for November. What she said she was thankful for was the cross. She wrote: “I am...

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November 16, 2011

Jesus, Friend of Sinners Like Me

For the past few days I’ve been listening to Casting Crowns’ new CD “Come to the Well.” My favorite song is City on a Hill, which I’ve written a post about before. But another song, which I remember them singing at the concert I went...

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