It’s dark, it’s quiet. I’m all alone, can’t go home. I worry, I fear, But the Lord is near. All my dreams and hopes Flash past like a skipping rope. I’m afraid to loose what I love, But you bring peace like a dove. Everyone feels like a mile away, But you O Lord are…
Chasing the sun, People come and people go Some stay others run. Each one leaving behind Marks etched along our path. Chasing the sun, Along the path we walk Onwards through the Valleys and up the mountains Some in circles, Looping back through The marks that remain. Chasing the sun, In the darkest of places…
Enclosed. Waiting. Staring up into the emptiness reaching for a glimpse of light. Then the speckles filtering in become brighter and brighter. Squinting, stretching your limbs into the fresh clear air. Gazing out at the wide world full of new possibilities. All the time spent waiting, wondering when the new growth would begin. Was giving…
Have you ever stopped to think about what you do with your hands? And I don’t mean what you do when you’re holding a pen, opening a box or making hand gestures when you speak. I mean, when you’re just ‘being’ – with your thoughts. What position do your hands naturally sit in? A friend…
Sparkles Green leaves, A sunrise. We forget the anguished cries That birthed this moment The darkness stifling the dawn. We celebrate the sparks of new life, The butterfly’s flawless wings The bird that sings at glowing light But not the night, The curtains drawn on life before. The caterpillar falling apart, The future work of…
Wandering along a path, distant from others, yet among them. The path twists and turns. Crossing others but not connecting. One foot in front of the other. Wandering, watching, dreaming… Along the way the path changes, from sandy uncertainty to rock-solid hope and many options in between. Constantly interrupted by grassy pastures of peace. Accompanied…
Lord, heal my body I said without knowing all the ways You would heal my life. Starting from my heart, the inbred deformity I carried since birth. Every day You kissed it all better, and it hurt. Your kisses hurt me, more than I would have ever expected. They were also the only medicine that…
It’s a good story Even though there a moments That seem sombre Because it’s for Your glory And that changes things You make living worth it When I remember Your love I become stronger for it Because my help comes from above As the darkness subsides The light arrives Because you can bet If it…
wandering through the aftermath. charred and broken all glimpses of colour lost, turned to ashes. silence. what once was. full of life has been silenced. voices crumbled and swept away. the sky is lined with posts. trunks that continue to stretch upward, to the light. The light, flooding into the darkest places. illuminating the ashes.…
I picked up a bunch of flowers at the florist and jumped in the car. Lockdown had meant that I couldn’t visit them until now. They had lost their son a few weeks before in a tragic truck accident and I knew from messages we had exchanged that they were totally devastated. I nervously knocked…