Tag: faith
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Haikus Part 3
Words a part of me, Melodies that pluck heart strings Heart’s tutors of truth Jitters, wiggles, blurts Short attention, temper spurts Rough start to Monday Shape shifting fingers Fluent concepts of language Pictures in the air Frustration building Desire to improve absent Leaves a weary nurse Copyright Jonelle Liddell
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Prayer for America
January 6 seemed like a fitting time to post this prayer/poem that I wrote on February 11, 2020. This continues to be my prayer. I pray Lord for America Belov’d land of the free That You would raise Your church again To seek Your sole glory To praise Your name and lift it high To…
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True
How do you build a marriage true How cleave and leave your families two How seek the good of someone who Is wretched, just as you? With honor lift each other high Sacrifice without a sigh Decide to love ‘til one should die Then wedded bliss is nigh. We learn to love through knowing You…
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Darkness
What’s that land shrouded in darkness? There we do not dare approach That, the backwardest backwater They, who know all men’s reproach Do not taint yourself by touching Perish thoughts of visits nigh For no good thing comes from Naz’reth And in Galilee all lie Can such regions ever know peace? In such people can…
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A Few Haikus
The Lord is My name My glory I will not share Praise is Mine alone ~From Isaiah 42:8 Snow capped Olympics Hint of blush on mountain snow From a sunrise kiss ~ Inspired by the Olympic Mountains In sunrise glow is Seen dark shapes on still water Pause from migration Copyright Jonelle Liddell
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Surrendering “If”
With God we can surrender “if” “If ‘twas,” “if it shall be” No need anxious reflection His plan, our certainty Our past, worked as He willed it Our present, in His hand Our future, ready written In the volumes of His plan Wills good for those who love Him Working all things in love And…
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Cry For Justice
O God of justice Shield of the helpless Hear my cry as I call out to Thee Orphan’s protector Widow’s defender Why are such evil ones left roaming free? Where are the millstones The slow rot in their bones Withdraw Thy great mercy, they cease to exist Why is that mercy shown Their deeds of…
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Silent Herald
We think of noise in moments That will resonate through time, But once silence heralded What truly stood sublime- Point that marked a watershed From which our age declines. Creation—being booming, As You spoke the moon and stars Into place and added chatter, Creatures scattered near and far, Imaginings exploded, World seeming without mar. The…
Of Hope and Rhymes 