Author: Heidi Viars

  • After All

    I am so grateful to my best Friend who has stuck it out with me for the past 30 years. (I wrote this a couple of years ago. The words are still true today!)

  • A Part of the Whole

    As I was walking through the woods a few days ago, I came across a single blossom, suspended by an almost invisible thread of spider web. It took some time to catch this delicate flower with my phone camera. An ever so slight breeze kept moving it out of view of…

  • Fearful Neighbors

    I am having a hard time getting used to them. Quite frankly, they are a bit annoying. I think I made the property look way too inviting. At first, they both took a careful glance at the house and left. Then they came back – for good. Our neighborhood hasn’t…

  • Hidden in Clear View

    Sometimes we miss the blessings right in front of us. Keep looking for them. You might be surprised how close they are. “Lord, I so often miss the gifts you have set before me. Open my eyes so I can see them and open my heart so I can embrace…

  • Dear Jesus

    “Dear Jesus, My heart is overwhelmed with the glimpses of your kindness toward me.  My soul cannot comprehend your deep, abiding love. Even though I mocked your Word of Truth, you loved me despite my foolishness. Even though I drove those nails into your hands, you touched me and healed my…

  • Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th, 2018)

    Trains filled with tears. On one way tracks, Pulled by invisible evil – passing gates that lie about freedom – Drawn by vile forces into hell. Fires, fueled by God’s own image. Ovens can’t burn hot enough to consume the guilt. Mass graves, bottomless pits, fed by famished frames. Their…

  • Spirit Centered

    Here is another square “poem” (maybe more prose).        “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it…

  • The Center of a Square

    Today read about a “square poem”.  I loved it and tried it myself Made me think about my theology. I felt like playing Sudoku with Jesus! Here it goes … (it doesn’t quite rhyme … will work on that) You can read it line by line. The columns repeat the…

  • What Kind of Hate …

    I know that none, not one, would come To God, without belief In Jesus Christ, His only Son. But yet, I rarely grieve. I know that no sincerity In faulty spun ideas Will bring lost souls prosperity But yet, I will not speak. It’s funny how my mouth will move…

  • Amazing Grace

    Awake the grace that you have shown – Though all my sins from birth you’ve known – The grace that showed my dire need For heart and soul to be set free.   Awake the grace that knows the law, Looks to myself to find the flaw, That knows the price…