Christmas / faith / poetry

It Has Begun!

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Before the beginning of time and space, they’d seen His ways, felt His gaze.At the dawn of creation, they sang His praise:Ancient of Days They humbly served at His beck […]

cancer / faith / Grief / poetry

The Big C

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Cancer took me by surpriseChrist knew all of my days before there was one of them Cancer deforms my bodyChrist formed my inward parts and knitted me together in my […]

cancer / child loss / faith / Grief / poetry / Widowhood

A Griever’s 23rd Psalm

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I walked through the valley of the shadow of deathBut You were with meYou never left me (Ps 23) Sobs wracked my body ’til there were no tears leftYou wrote […]

Grief / poetry / Widowhood

Remind Me That I’m Not Forgotten

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TodayI feelUseless.Hopeless.Unwanted.In the way. Not self pityJust the awarenessThat life as we know itKeeps going on. Some of usAre left behind for a while.Like missing the last busOut to happiness. […]

Easter / faith / poetry

It Was for Me

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It was for me, Jesus left Heaven’s glory For me, He stepped down from His throne Wrote Himself into redemption’s story From Lord of lords, to an embryo Creator of […]

Grief / poetry

My Husband’s Hands

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My Husband’s Hands A man’s hands tell so much about him. For as long as I can remember, I said I would only marry a man whose hands were as […]