sparrow and birdfeeder, image by Ralph, on Pixabay, modified As All Nature Toils Together     No one finds it strange the way I do to see...

sword hilt, image by Eveline de Bruin, on Pixabay, slightly modified Waiting in Wilderness   Years pass through me like  a stream through...

shoreline, image by njbateman526, on Pixabay, slightly modified A Theory of Paradise Imbedded in Reality     Something in nature...

"Daydreaming"                        photograph by Michael Shoemaker Oh, How I Need Thee   Help of...

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...