Tag: God

Echoes of Grace

The prompt at dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar yesterday was to write Echo Verse. Most of the examples of the traditional form included the word “echo” before the echoing second line of each stanza, but an option without the word “echo” was offered and...

The Gospel Misunderstood

Today is going to be Open Link Night at dVerse Poets Pub (I think). At any rate, I wrote this for Open Link Night. It was inspired by several conversations I’ve had lately—some in real life and some online. So often the Gospel is misunderstood...

A Little about Me

Over at dVerse Poets Pub we’re celebrating the 4-year anniversary of the pub with Marina’s prompt that calls us to get to know each other a little better. Each poet is to pick six words—three that describe us and three that describe things or people we...

Let’s Have Lamb

Let’s Have Lamb I was thinking Why don’t we have lamb instead of bread for communion? Since Jesus was the Lamb of God who was slain shouldn’t lamb represent His body? I’m not complaining, mind you I don’t even like lamb And everyone loves bread...

Where Peace Is Found

The prompt today at dVerse Poets Pub is to write about something that is part of our every day life. I could have written about any number of things, but decided to write about prayer. Where Peace Is Found Kneeling here elbows leaning on my...

Nothing to Fear

There’s nothing to fear but fear itself and bears if you’re in Yellowstone loneliness if you’re all alone failure if your theory is flawed sickness and death if you don’t know God Yet if God is on your side there’s nothing to fear just trust...

Jeremiah Preached the Gospel

I’ve been reading through Jeremiah, alternating with Hebrews, as part of my Bible-in-a-year reading schedule. I’m up to chapter 23 of Jeremiah, but I kept thinking about chapter 17. So I went back and re-read chapter 17 the other night. As I read through it, I...