Tag: Love

The Blessing of Family

One of the most wonderful blessings God has given us is family. The cool thing about family is that there is a connection between family members that defies logic and reason. There is a love for family that transcends understanding. I’ve experienced a couple of...

God Is Love – A Triolet

For some reason, I am compelled to write one more triolet to finish off my trio of triolets. (Truth be told, I have fallen in love with this form of poetry so you will probably see more in the future.) In writing this triolet, I took...

Nobody Told Them

I’ve been meeting on Monday nights with a small group in conjunction with our pastor’s sermon series on the Christian toolbox. It’s a short-term small group and will last only three more weeks. But it has been great to get to know people I’ve known...

Saved by Grace – A Triolet

After my excursion into writing a triolet for the dVerse Poets Pub FormForAll last Thursday, I decided that this is a form I really like. As I listened to the lesson on grace in church on Sunday, I decided that I wanted to write another triolet...

Grace Is Unfair

This morning in church we learned about the next – and in my opinion most important – tool in our Christian toolbox. Grace. It is the one thing that sets the Christian faith apart from every other religion in the world. Pr. Dave told a...

Seventeen Years – A Haiku

Today is my son’s 17th birthday, so I decided to write a haiku for him because haiku’s have 17 syllables. Then after writing the first one, I decided to write a second about our birthday plans for the day. Seventeen Years For seventeen years you...

Have Faith – A Triolet

At dVerse Poets Pub today, Samuel Peralta shared an awesome lesson on triolets for the Form for All post. It looked like a very interesting poetry form so I decided to give it a try. I actually coupled it with the idea of a “found poem”...