Hope Renewed

19 Mar 2024

As each night approaches
my hope goes through changes.

Shadows ensue.
My faith it pursues.

Saddened I become.
For my confidence proceeds to falter.

Since felt delayed
a particular hope.

“Expectation postponed makes the heart sick,

But a desire realized
is a tree of life”. Pro. 13:12.

To impatience I imperfectly
succumb. Wrestling everyday to stay positive and strong
before onlookers of my fate.

Why must I endure this humiliation,
inwardly I ask;

although, … More Hope Renewed

Transformed (contest ‘Therefore, I urge you…’ Rom. 12:1-2 70 Words)

19 Mar 2024

“Wickedness, greed, and badness,
being full of envy, murder, strife,”

cloaked by darkness;

threatened,
life precious.

Down this path chosen
a mind or heart mistakenly
thinks

‘in control’.

Yet, called ‘children of wrath’
makes a strong statement:

disobedient,

a belligerent soul.

But when we “quit
being fashioned
after this system”

to end soon;

clothe ourselves
in humility

a Holy Creator
He’ll us befriend

after transformed:

warmth brotherly
from inhumanly cold. … More Transformed (contest ‘Therefore, I urge you…’ Rom. 12:1-2 70 Words)

Falsely Called “Knowledge”‘?

10 Jan 2024

Our world ironically spinsharried children, women, and men as hurricane winds of aspiring mindsand fluctuating trends bend to breaking pointhonest hearts weakened, yet hoping and prayingfor communities to mendmorally/or not by radicallydefending ‘personal’‘righteous/unrighteous’‘laws/principles’: But, “why do you judge your brother?Or why do you also look down on your brother? For we will all stand before … More Falsely Called “Knowledge”‘?

Forever. . . Always. . .

27 Dec 2023

Bask me

beneath
glorious
rays

transforming
as Kashmir’s hair spun

to blanket one
underneath it

I remain,

even after
a tumultuous storm

humbled
me

by flashings
of jagged light

through
midnight drawn.

Blackest ink
eased to lighten,

until this
‘New Day’.

Thrashed

tons of water
upon sandy beaches,

cement streets.

Verdant plains
thirsty, quenched.

Vibrant blossoms
reach upwards or out.

Rendered tears
from widened eyes

searching
each artistic horizon

whirling reds, blues,
golden hues,

while ears perk to rustles
sweet, gentle

tickling
variant skins

embracing

brothers.
Loving one another…

Seated together.
Dining together.

Tasted,
foods exquisite

internationally
thriving

marvelously
together

for

in their image
we were made…

***

“Let us
make man

in our image,

according to
our likeness”.

Forever… Always… … More Forever. . . Always. . .

‘What Are We To Say, Then?’ (contest Christianity – Gilda Castillo)

10 Nov 2023

“Look!
I am doing something new;

Even now
it is springing up.

Do you not recognize it?

I will make a way through the wilderness
And rivers through the desert.”

“I will make rivers flow on the bare hills
And springs in the valley plains.

I will turn the wilderness into a reedy pool of water
And the waterless land into springs of water.” Isa. 43:19; 41:18. … More ‘What Are We To Say, Then?’ (contest Christianity – Gilda Castillo)

‘Let Me Live’

8 Oct 2023

‘Let Me Live’

“I have strayed like a lost sheep.
Search for your servant,

For I have not forgotten your commandments.”

“I call with my whole heart.
Answer me, O Jehovah.

Your regulations I will observe.”

For:
“The very essence of your word
is truth,

And all your righteous judgments
endure forever.”

“Abundant peace
belongs to those who love your law;

Nothing
can make them stumble.”

“May your hand be ready to help me,
Because I choose to obey your orders.

I long for your salvation,
O Jehovah,

And I am fond of your law.

Let me live
so that I may praise you;

May your judgments be my help.”
Ps. 119:176, 145, 160, 165, 173-175.
How Can You Know God Personally? http://www.JW.org

… More ‘Let Me Live’