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In All
In dark and cold of winter deep In spring’s sweet call of old In summer’s gentle, lulling breeze In autumn’s wind and gold In every season sad or bright In birth and solemn death In when I see and when I’m blind In first and final breath In all I’m held by sovereign hands You…
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Drawn Blinds
In Loving Memory of Linda and to All Who Loved Her I close the blindShed shoes and clothesLeave day behindFrom whence I rose I greet the nightI ponder restThe questions rise … Lived I my best? I fall asleep –Again draw blindsJump to my feetDo day. Do life. But then one dayWhen all is doneWhen…
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Servants
It is enough that you would see, My Master, God Eternally, And that your servant I would be – Unworthy, serve you happily. For I don’t know what you will do With all that I have muddled through, Ignoble things laid down for you, In trust that you are good and true. My comfort, joy,…
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A New Day
What is your complaint, barking crow?Why greet the morning with contentious noiseAs light breaks through,As morning rehearses againThe ongoing playOf the Ancient of Days. Be silent! Let others sing!Let the happier lead the processionOf the first rays!Even brother JayKnows it’s better to sing than to bark,Preens his feathers to match the coming sky. Are you…
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How Do You Do It?
“How do you do it?” You ask.”How do you hold on, while all else around you goes to sleep?You know, eventually, you too, must surrender to the cold.What is it that makes your heart hang on and still stand? How do you flash your light toward the watching audience (who, quite frankly, is waiting for…
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A Greater Darkness
I step out with my coffee into a cold November morning. I tilt my head and glance into what seems a motionless universe. Orion stretches his shield over my roof in the south, as he does every autumn and winter. Will he ever let go of his wrath? To the north, the big dipper still…
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Morning Proverbs
(After my Bible reading today in Proverbs, I sensed a nudge to try to write my own. My soul quickly found a deep joy as I contemplated Truth in my day to day. You should try it.) Many are my ways, but only One Way will lead to Eternal Life. Like a moth fluttering aimlessly…
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The Greatest of All
There in the sky I saw a sparrow, quite smallChased a blackbird away, as if in a squall. Then not too much later coming down with a blowThe blackbird was pecking the head of a crow I am telling the truth, then the crow slammed a hawkCharged that fowl – who flew away and squawked.…
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WORD(S)
The last time I saw youWords were hurled, thrown aboutThe last time we spokeYou were on your way out I wondered if new wordsPerhaps in a letter Would mend what we heardCould make all this better But I fear it’s too lateThat more words cannot healCan’t make broken things greatCan’t relay what I feel Now…
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Truth Still Bleeds
Not many want knowThe truth behind our tearsNot everyone can seeWhat only few can hear Ties don’t hold in placesThrough fibers made of glassWhile reading books of facesAnd seeking greener grass The painful Truth is this:We’re all a cause for tears –Our deeds and those we miss –While conqu’ring doubts and fears But as it’s…
Heidi Viars
Finding the Image of God
