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Winter

Looking out Waiting Spending time creating I am a clipping of the past How long will winter last? Silent roots…

Magnolia now bloomswith its fragrant friend JasmineWhite on whiteIn Spring delightBirds sing their pleasant songAnd I join them singing praiseEven…

YESTERDAY We ate in a restaurant At a table The room crowded with people Yes, we were able Today it…

The clouds weightily hungWe mounted bikesAnd rode through quarantined streetsThe air was thick of itFEARGreeted by hesitant glances of joggers,…

Many mundane minutes Scrubbing dishes Washing floors Endless hours On routine chores But you treasure Each glance toward you When…

A black and white photo hangs on my wall Of a place called Gethsemane Where you prayed for us all…

Has the sparrow made a nest In the rafter, as a limb Busy in the shade above her Singing the…

Words are for worship Every syllable And bouncing beat Words dance forward without retreat Like marching troops Formed in a…

A generation like no other Not like mine Nor of my mother Something changed In recent past I know by…

FORGIVENESS The weight of sin, an anchor Pulling to the sea Drowning all hope and promise Killing eternally I…