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Dear Friend

Posted in Free Verse / Poetry, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »

The news of your struggle beckoned me

And I came without hesitation

My hands are empty

But my heart is full

I possess no antidote for that which ails you

But I offer my shoulder for you to lean upon

I have come to hold your trembling hands

And to help raise a cup to your parched lips

I have come to change the dressing on your wound

And to fight against infection

I will offer no explanation

For things I could not possibly know

I will make no bold predictions of miraculous deliverance

Lest the Lord Himself speak them over you

I have come with an economy of words

And an abundance of tears

With attentive ears

And ceaseless prayers

I don’t know where this road will take us

But I am resolved that you not travel it alone

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Thought for the Day – Faulty Expectations

Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged , , , , , on December 27, 2021| Leave a Comment »

We imagine an existence that’s free of friction, we dream of relationships that are without conflict, we wish for a life that doesn’t include struggle; and then we are disappointed, discouraged, and even depressed when our reality fails to resemble any of that. (1Peter 4:12-13)

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