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November 20, 2015

What We Deserve

We think we all deserve God’s love All good gifts that come from above A good God wouldn’t send folks to hell And therefore the story we tell saves all with love Except, of course, men like Hitler Terrorists and Jeffrey Dahmer They don’t deserve...

Categories Poetry Comments: 11
November 14, 2015

Why Are We Surprised?

When people do terrible things, such as yesterday’s terrorist attacks in Paris or the most recent school shooting in Oregon last month, people are surprised. And when you believe, as our culture seems to, that people are basically good, the surprise is understandable. But my...

Categories Christian Living Comments: 2
October 31, 2015

Grafted

I was a wild olive shoot wandering lost and alone certain I could thrive on skill all my own Lived a wild and crazy life no one to answer to sowing seeds of great regret searching for something new Though I had creativity wisdom was far away focus was quite...

Categories Poetry Comments: 2
October 2, 2015

Blessings of Boldness

Being bold and courageous is hard and sometimes risky, but it’s always worth the risk. Last week when I posted my 6th Anniversary post, I mentioned that I was going to share on Monday about the blessings of being bold. But one of the two...

Categories Christian Living Comment: 1
September 25, 2015

My Blogging Anniversary: Pondering Deep Water Faith

Today is the 6th anniversary of the day I started this blog. I decided to see what I had posted that day. I’d forgotten how excited I’d been to start blogging; I posted 4 articles in that one day! I thought I’d share one of...

Categories Christian Living Comment: 1
September 1, 2015

I Am a Reluctant Watchman

The Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub today is offered by guest bartender Lynn. She is asking us to write about what the watchman sees. I decided to take my first line from the Isaiah verse she quoted, with a slight modification. This prompt was...

Categories Poetry Comments: 19
August 15, 2015

Stop Throwing Stones

If you spend any time on social media and have conservative Christian friends or follow conservative Christian feeds, then no doubt you have seen numerous posts lately decrying the murder of innocent babies. Especially with the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the release of...

Categories Pro-Life Comments: 8