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How is Church for You?

September 18, 2020 By Annette1 2 Comments

The Five Minute Friday word prompt is church, you can find the linky over at Miss Kate’s. When I heard the word the words of this song popped into my heard immediately.

Oh come to the church in wildwood
Oh come to the church in the vale…
no thought is so dear to my childhood,
as that little brown church in the vale!

As I sit back and the end of a busy day, I’m a bit perplexed as to where this song will take me in the next five minutes or so. Shall we go for a ride?

How is Church For You?

Sunday Service, 1030 arrive.
Greeting, noise, alive.

Singing loudly, band it plays
Praise, and hymns, voices raise.

Four or six, music tunes
Praising God, the leader croons.

45 minutes pastor extols
The wonders of God, yes we are told.

Singing again, the service it ends.
Into the world, congregation sends.

Covid hits, everything changes.
Staying at home, the government ranges.

No service oh, for many a week.
How to reach people who seek?

Everyone shut in, people away.
How long can things continue this way?

Gradually easing, the rules give way.
Showing improvement, will covid make sway?

30% capacity, we currently stand
Some church attendance, it’s well in hand.

2 songs, no singing allowed.
Announcements too then heads bowed.

Prayer and a message, in minutes, remain.
Can a church service, help us stay sane?

50 minutes total, sign up to attend
Come, let your heart mend.

This season is hard, can the church lend a hand?
To ease the suffering the locked-in barely stand?

How to combat when together forbidden?
Can we show our God who mustn’t be hidden?

How is church for you?

Choosing the Could

September 11, 2020 By Annette1 7 Comments

Choosing the could popped into my rather tired brain last night and I kept falling asleep as I tried to write on it. With a busy day today, I’m still battling exhaustion this evening! But here we have it finally! A poem to go with Miss Kate‘s FMF word prompt.

Choosing the Could

Choosing the could
I stopped to see
What adversity
Might bring to me.

Increased understanding
For others in plight
I started to realize
It was all my fight.

God opened my eyes
To see others pain
Reflected in eyes
Who were also maimed.

Choosing the could
I almost failed to see
How what happened to others
Could happen to me.

Making a choice
Will it be you or me?
Patience is sought
And is often the key.

It’s funny in a way
When you realize a truth
That possibilities exist
Thought forsooth.

Living my life
Choices to make
I have to check that
I the Lord not forsake.

Choosing the could
I chose to press on
Finish the task,
I’ll fight til it’s dawn.

Empathy gained
Hope Restored
Choosing the could
I’ll never be bored.

Galatians 5:13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh ; rather, serve one another humbly in love.

Joshua 24:15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

Proverbs 16:19 In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.

The Scream in the Night

August 27, 2020 By Annette1 12 Comments

Even though I know this poem below doesn’t include the word loud, as soon as I saw the word prompt from Miss Kate it simply spilled off my fingertips. 🙂 The scream in the night, in reality, was less of a scream than call. Just a fully recognized alert sounding for someone who knows the danger hidden in this particular fur coat.

The Scream in the Night

It came suddenly
the scream in the night.
Making my heart
Leap with fright.

With wondering eyes,
to the door I fled.
Hoping in my heart,
against all my dread.

Indeed it was true,
I saw it full well.
That beast of my terrors
Outside my home it did dwell.

What should I do?
This scavenger of might!
With one who would cause
Such alarm in the night?

A trap, yes indeed
This owner would lay.
To keep safe some bunnies
This predator would slay.

Raw in egg, a trap in the other
Place, bait down
Set in place
with a frown.

Would the predator come
Allured by the egg?
Prevent it from grabbing
a young bunnies leg?

Success! Oh the bliss!
There’s no scream in the night!
No more worry
No more fright!

A long-distance journey
A new home to find.
One predator a forest
to place his behind!

Much safer and better
than urban life to live.
Less traffic, natural food
I’m happy to give.

But Mercy Stepped In

August 21, 2020 By Annette1 11 Comments

Miss Kate has the perfect word for us this week. Mercy, isn’t that a wonderful word? Mercy is such a hard thing to understand, and it completely fills a heart when received. A grace for us indeed eh? 🙂

But Mercy Stepped In

This week received
unexpected shock.
Broke a momma’s heart
Almost in two.

But mercy stepped in.
Stopped hard words.

This week received
A time of solid tears.
A momma’s heart remembering
A child of younger years.

But mercy stepped in.
A hug received.

This week received
Conversation badly needed.
A momma’s heart starts to see.
A glimmer of hope.

But mercy stepped in.
Friendship renewed.

This week received
A game in the mail.
Expected two weeks later.
A God-moment in time.

But mercy stepped in
Reconnection enabled.

This week received
Responses from friends.
Rejection expected.
Open arms given instead.

But mercy stepped in.
Hope in the Lord renewed.

This week received
Prayers and phone calls.
Words of hope and peace
From God himself inspired.

So mercy stepped in
in the form of a boy.

This I really saw how
This beloved of God
The creator of worlds.
Cares for his own.

Verses from my heart to yours

Heb 4:16

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Lam.3:22-23

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Eph.2:4-5

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Exodus 34:6-7

⁶The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, ⁷keeping steadfast love for thousands,^a] forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Romans 5:8

⁸but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Progress

August 7, 2020 By Annette1 8 Comments

Miss Kate has given us another word prompt, this week the word is progress. Shall we see where my muse takes us tonight?

Progress

The more the world moves forward,
the more it falls behind.

Forgetting what’s important
In the bid to always mind.

We must have equality!
Everyone must be treated the same!

Forgetting that our differences
Is part of the game.

The game of life that keeps us
Working in harmony.

In Christ there is no Jew of Greek
There is no slave or free.

It matters not if
Boy or girl.

For us to make progress
In this world.

What we need is the love of Christ
In whose own image made we

Male and female we both show
The God who made us be.

Without the Lord any progress shown
can never truly stand.

Without the Lord we only build
What only can man’s hands.

Is what we build the biggest thing
That for us progress make?

Always remember the Lord made us
Remember it true, for goodness sake.

Scripture Referenced

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Gal.3:28

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Gen 1:27

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Col.1:16-17

Respect Isn’t The Easiest Thing

July 31, 2020 By Annette1 12 Comments

R-E-S-P-E-C-T tell me what it means to thee.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T I’ll tell you what it means to me.

You see, respect is…
Oh gosh, respect isn’t the easiest thing. It really isn’t. Sometimes it’s as natural as can… like showing respect to doctors and policemen. But sometimes, respect between people can be harder to figure out.

Respect isn’t the easiest thing

In talking with a new friend,
With carefulness of speech,
Because in learning about
Personal history
And the hardness of life,
One learns to tread carefully.

Not for fear of loss
of friendship.
Though friends are
cherished dear.
But out of respect for
that friendship.
Wanting to respect that
hardness of life,
changes perspectives.

Perspective that teaches
you have to work with what
you got.
Nothing else will do that
for you.
Work with it.
Mind your business and hold
it tight.

Be a person of faith.
It’s a good thing.
Respect that God
has your back and teaches
you through the
“HMMS” of life.

You see it’s that
perspective that binds
us together.
That awareness of the
power of God.
Who even with our different
perspectives,
Binds hearts together.

So respect isn’t the
easiest thing.
But if you work at it
you’ll find something.
Most anything, that will
make it possible.

Friends, mutually respected,
Helping you to
look beyond the moment.
and to a future promised.
It’s a good thing no?

This post is part of the five minute Friday word prompt provided by Miss Kate. Write for five minutes, link up, go visit those who have linked up before you. Encourage the heart of others, it’s the centre of our community.

Endure the burden

July 9, 2020 By Annette1 15 Comments

I have fought the fight I have finished the race
I have kept the faith
I have fought the good fight I have finished the race
I have kept the faith.

These are the first words I thought of when I saw the word endure. It’s another Five minute Friday word prompt from Miss Kate. Endure the burden, fight the good fight.

Endure the burden

What does it means you know, to fight the good fight and to finish the race? To finish a race means you’ve stuck it out, you have endured to the end.

Today the heat
got the best of one of my does.
Despite all I could do
and all that I tried,
the heat she couldn’t survive.

Should I let her suffer
To endure pain?
Or should I let her suffering end.
Should I endure the burden
Of being one who cares for animals?

I chose to take up that burder
Some 15 years back.
Most of the time,
It brings immense joy.
But occasionally, the burden
Is indeed a burden.

The ending of life
is one that must be taken up.
When you know that the one
suffering will not recover.

This doe was one born
with a mindset to fear.
Handling her caused
unmeasured stress.
Caring for her, trying to help her
Probably caused her illness to advance.
She never took to it well.
She was not one that I would call
Born to a life of endurance.
Hers was to avoid and hide away,
despite continued kindness.

Makes me think of
The people around
How some endure, ever so well.
and yet others, the slightest pressure,
causes them to wilt away.
Yet all of us, I suppose,
In our own way endure.

Sticking to what we know
Striving somehow, to make a difference,
To somehow matter.

For those of us who have faith
in the one true living God.
The call of Paul encourages us,
Despite our frailties,
to Endure.

To fight the fight,
to finish the race,
to keep the faith.

2 Timothy 4:7 – I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith

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How is Church for You?

How is Church For You?