Many days I vacillate
Between despair and hopefulness.
The bitterness and vile hate,
The love and many ways we bless.
I sometimes wish for only one,
That all our finest work be done.
Yet for Good to make her mark
There also must be temptation.
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Simple joys
Like wooden toys
Are sometimes hard to see.
But once they’re found,
They can astound
And strengthen us delightfully.
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The drought-stricken land
Is most ready for the rain.
Empty, you can gain.
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A blissful silence
Waits inside us,
Speaking life
Into our strife.
A sacred space,
An inner place
To which we flee
When urgently
We need to hear
A word of cheer.
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There is power in the Light
In the Night
Out of sight.
With an open heart we might
See it right,
Shining bright.
Whether fallen from the heights
Or filled quite
Up with delight,
We can see and put to flight
All our fright
Our petty spite.
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We are immersed in time,
In space, in life, in Light.
Height by height we climb,
Hoping to get our dreams in sight.
A wheel of endless searching,
Til the turning’s made to cease.
Why waste the journey lurching
To and from each false release?
Why not savor every cycle,
Resting in the peace of now?
Life’s too short to trifle with
Or squander anyhow.
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Rain that falls gently
Can still swell up to a flood.
Justice should be kind.
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Hallo, all! I am super excited to reveal the cover for my upcoming collaboration with Ekram Haque!
Our work is a joint devotional with entries from an Islamic perspective and a Christian perspective, finding unity in our diversity as members of two very different faith traditions.
Another draft or so, then it will be released as an E-Book!
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It’s a simple thing,
This wandering
In which we all partake.
We complicate
We hesitate,
And spend it half awake.
But if we pause,
Accept our flaws,
And opt instead for grace,
We’ll mindfully
And kindly see
The gift that is this place.
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I appreciate how many of you read and respond to my work, so first off, THANK YOU!
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No time to waste.
Don’t make Justice wait,
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The greatest gift
At the day’s end
Is when my eyes lift
To see light descend.
As the stars come to view
And the day goes to rest,
I see through and through
How deeply I’m blessed.
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