Author: Heidi Viars
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How Can I Thank You?
(This poem came to me at Easter 2012 – out of incredible thankfulness to Jesus) * How can I thank You, For the pain endured, For the blood that You spilled and the peace You secured? * How can I thank You For willingly go, Where I should have went…
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Worthy
He stood there on the side of the road, next to the shopping center. His big frame and bearded face were bent toward the ground, not like a strong man should stand. He held his cardboard sign across his chest as if to tell the world what he was. The…
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Stay Warm
A harsh breeze is grabbing my attention. A chill is crawling into my bones. The summer has said its goodbye a long time ago, and now the cold is seeping in. Soon she will have crept into all the crevasses of the earth around me. No place is safe from…
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Freedom
The deceitfulness of the human heart is far greater and deeper than we can comprehend, but the love of God is deeper still. Each day we should set out on the task to understand both better than we did the day before. * Lord, humble me and show me my…
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The List – Turned Around
The list I held in my hand grew longer with each moment I sat in the car. I was about to walk into the store and tried to think of anything that did not make it on the list. I sensed anxiety trying to make its way up from my…
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Silence
The house is quiet. The seconds drip out of the clock into my ears. I remember my grandmother’s clock – and different seconds ticking away. Slower ones made their way across a quiet table, set for two. Time for quiet. Time for silence – Only the dripping of seconds. I…
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Peace and Rest
Slow me down and quiet my heart. Blind me to the distraction that keeps me from seeing You. Deafen me to the noise that draws me away from You. * Your hand is visible all around me. In stillness and peace I can see and hear. * Help me not…
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Come, Walk With Me
Come walk with me into the night. Come to the fields with me. No man-made light, no city glitz Pollute your eyes to see. * Just look into the night sky here. Just wonder like a child. Let deep within you awe and fear Arise and move your mind. *…
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Sovereign God
In pain and all that comes my way, In joys beyond compare. In seasons grand and lonely day, You work with loving care. * There is no place Your love can’t go. No depth my soul can find. No crevasse of the heart so deep Which keeps You locked outside.…
Heidi Viars 