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Some Spiritually Inspired poetry I Have Written

The Reason

6/5/2025

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Who or what is the reason why things happen in our lives the way they do? Whether a calm life or a chaotic one, all events have a source. Sometimes it is definitely us that brought on certain moments. But, many times there is another reason.
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The Reason

A life is so full of events...

It's conceived,
     by chance,
     not hardly,
     because of the Reason.

Born on time or early,
     soon found at home
     or in the hospital for some time,
     due to the Reason.

Kept clean, clothed and fed,
     life grows,
          sometimes calmly,
          sometimes stressed,
     covered by the Reason.

Love begins, spreads
     and happenings happen,
     good days, hard times,
     life learns and adapts,
     wanted and unwanted
          surprises come,
     growth by the Reason.

Life passes through
     schooling into adulthood,
     yet, the hard schooling remains,
          between those glorious days
          and horrendous nights,
     enduring with the Reason.

During many lives
     great gains are made,
in others
     huge losses are experienced,
why either happens
     is only known
     by the Reason.

The Reason
     behind life,
     that's with us each day
           is our Creator, God,
     and we are guided along
          via the Holy Spirit
     given us after Jesus' Ascension.

And this same Jesus
     from His Heavenly throne
     intercedes for us daily,
          whether we feel it or not,
     He's there and with us always.

Amen to the Reason,
     who's with us day and night
     until our time here is done
          and we are called Home.

mAt 06/04/25
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Transitions

11/5/2024

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Almost every time I write some prose it is because a title comes to mind first. Then the first stanza sets the format and it continues from there. I was just thinking about the various phases of life we all go through, the various transitions that take place.

Transitions

Growing:
  • Two people bond, after which our growth begins.
  • We crawl, we stand, we fall then walk.
  • We see, hear, smell and touch everything around us.
  • We may stumble frequently but quickly adapt.

Learning:
  • We begin to categorize the world around us.
  • Our lack of reasoning doesn't interfere with forming memories.
  • Learning what we can do and our limitations.
  • Parental guidance and sibling help is all important now.

Loving:
  • In time we realize our parents have special feelings for us.
  • After more time we start to understand what familial love is.
  • Well past puberty, many of us find someone we feel love towards.
  • How we handle this love depends on the person and life's circumstances.

Yearning:
  • Other wants and desires now creep into our being.
  • Some of those are expected, some are thrust upon us.
  • We yearn for many things, perhaps to the point of becoming unstable.
  • It's in this part of life that crucial long lasting decisions are made.

Believing:
  • Much has happened and we begin to believe.
  • Something or someone becomes the focus of our beliefs.
  • And what we believe in is now key to our existence.
  • What we believe in either builds us up or breaks us down.

Grieving:
  • We move through life, most days on autopilot.
  • With similar highs and lows to a rollercoaster ride.
  • We start to suffer great losses then grieve.
  • Do our beliefs help us through grieving? Hopefully so.

Leaving:
  • With aging, our attachments to ourselves, to others, to this world can fade.
  • By now we have experienced much, gained much and lost much.
  • We know our leaving here is not so far away.
  • Now we can start detaching, letting go, if our beliefs allow it.

Arriving:
  • Once we have truly left here, where are we?
  • Are we just pushing up daisies, gone and mostly forgotten?
  • Or do we persist on, our souls alive forever more?
  • Is your belief that after leaving here, you have arrived at your eternal home? Hopefully so.

Living:
  • We've now arrived where we will remain alive for the rest of time.
  • Let's hope our choices were correct and life now is truly free.
  • Free from heartache and loss, now full of love and living.
  • Jesus said, "John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."

mAt 11/4/24
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LIFE

10/25/2024

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Remembering my late wife's birthday of 10/20, I decided to post this in her honor. Clicking this link or on the picture will display it in its original slideshow format.
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the great (un)known

10/3/2024

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We have always known
there is a great unknown,
sometimes a lifelong unknown,
at least until we have grown,
    growing out of ourselves
    putting our inner child behind
    and facing the facts of life.

We have always felt it,
a great void to fill.
Many times we scramble,
doing all kinds of crazy to fill it,
    but almost nothing can.
    Perhaps the love of another will do,
    but even that is incomplete.

We have to stop running
away from it or hiding from it.
That great unknown, ever present,
gnawing on our insides,
    how empty and painful it can be.
    Perhaps the Great Known
    will solve the puzzle and fill the void.

We all know, if we're honest,
the solution to our greatest need.
We see Him all around, every day,
but for too long we ignore Him
    until hopefully, meekly,
    we just get up, open the doorway,
    the one to our hearts and let Him in.

Tis a solitary pursuit for most
till we stop long enough
to hear the absolute quiet
tranquility of our aloneness.
    Only then can we detect
    His still small voice
    and begin to learn again.

We we find, Lord willing,
is what we've always felt,
that the great unknowns of life
were created by the Great Known,
    our Creator God,
    who wants us to know Him
    as much as He wants to know us.

Unlearn this world
so you can learn of its Creator.
Embrace Him and live
while time remains.
    Don't get stuck
    in the muck of this life,
    ​instead look towards the life to come.

mAt 10/02/24
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Every day

9/6/2024

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Dear God

3/31/2024

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Creator of everything
    we see
and everything
    we don't see.
We're only here
    today
because you're here
    every day.
    
What we have
    are those things
You have
    decided to give.
Nothing more
    is what we need,
nothing less
    is what You provide.
    
We recognize
    the supreme sacrifice
    of Jesus on the cross.
Daily we see
    how He intercedes
    in our lives,
offering protection and guidance
    whenever we ask
    and many times when we don't.
    
On this day we celebrate
    the Risen Christ,
    Your Son, Jesus.
    
He did as You commanded
    and reopened the door
    to eternal life for us all.
We only have to walk
    through it in faith.
    
His mission is ongoing,
    and He will return
        to gather us who believe,
    then He will judge
        those who are left behind.
        
For after here is a forever life,
    one that knows
    no sorrows, no tears, no pains,
    but only Love, Joy and Peace.
    
We graciously wait
    during this Age of Grace,
    longing to see those
    who have gone on before us.
    
It's knowing we will see You,  see Jesus,
    along with so many we've missed
        for so long,
    that gives us the will
        to continue
        for as long as it takes.

Amen...

mAt 3/30/24
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Easter 2023

4/9/2023

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LOOK INTO HIS LIGHT

6/20/2022

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HOPE

6/20/2022

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Be A Beacon

5/8/2022

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1Th 5:5  Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
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