image by chen, on Pixabay, modified Dear friends, Often, as I read submissions, I’m struck by the outpourings of love and praise to God....

pond with water lilies, image by Alex, on Pixabay Stilled     I’m unconcerned with lofty things; my soul is calm and stilled, needing...

doves, image by Huu Luu, on Pixabay, modified Without beginning or end     I am slow to ascend, pick my way past cacti   & pinyon pine,...

horse, image by amar42, on Pixabay, modified Old Ways   My grandmother would tell me how stonemasons would whistle while they spread...

stacking letters, image by David Peterson, on Pixabay The Cherry Blossom Festival     Beneath these snowy boughs of fragrant flowers...

shawl, image from Pixabay The prayer shawl     I liked the idea of a prayer shawl. Softly covering me with gentle grace, Muted colours,...

image by Oberholster Venita, on Pixabay, modified Solace and Sense     It was yesterday, the rains fell bullet proof, pocking the lawn,...

image by slowrabbit, on Pixabay, modified Gracious God                                     Special and influential is your grace. God’s...

(road construction, image by Gerhild Klinkow, on Pixabay) “I don’t want to pick up anyone else, along this Jericho Road; I want to fix…...

cross, image by congerdesign, on Pixabay, modified Immeasurable Divinity   Immutable His love so kind, Immediate His word assigned,...

piano keys, image by Uwe Baumann, on Pixabay Adonai   Now I know who You are,   stained in fibers and place the excruciating,   merged in...

image by Renee Olmsted, on Pixabay, modified Emerging Stone   Like Father’s unfinished life, the half-dressed donated stone stands in the...

"TWO PEAKS" Photograph by Michael Shoemaker ...

sprouts in soil, image by วรพจน์ พนาปวุฒิกุล, on Pixabay Mud      the ignorant glance at mud turn up their noses despise it to no end  ...

fabric, image by Wajahat Ahmad, on Pixabay, modified A Surprise Upon Awakening     I woke up and, in the mirror, Saw a stranger—a face...

doves of peace, image by Gerd Altmann, on Pixabay The Lazarus Dove   The boy was 11 years old in the summer of 1957. He had seen a...

scribbles, image by H G, on Pixabay, slightly modified Preparation   "Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the...

image by Yolanda Díaz Tarragó, on Pixabay Resolutions   “Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.”...

irises, image by Alicja, on Pixabay A Fragment of a Smile   There’s a tinge of joy in each fragment of a smile fresh as the first glow of...

juniper, image by Bronisław Dróżka, on Pixabay Evelyn’s Junipers     She and her husband chose the name: A restaurant soon to be. With...