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Summer Blessing: poems by Olivia Oster

Updated: Jul 23

Close-up photo of wet green grass, with drops of water sparkling in the sunshine, image by Petra, on Pixabay.



















wet grass, image by Petra, on Pixabay


Summer Blessing


Peace to the hungry and the bored,

Comfort to the mourning and meek,

Iced tea for the weary,

Tiny lights to glint off tired tears.

Be glad! You’re in good company

If your service goes unthanked.

Don’t forget! Your taste

Touches minds and hearts

Like seasoned salt,

Food fills friends with flavor.

Fireflies show their good works

Teaching us glory.

And after summer rain

Evening grass wets dancing feet.



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Do Not Fear Them


Woman, housewife, mother, friend,

Your consequence knows no end.

Worth far above influence or measure,

You are our Savior’s treasure,

Precious in His sight,

Woman, worker, marvel, light.

You will accomplish your given purpose:

Kindness, calmness, deepness, fullness.

Worth far above wages, skills, or glory,

You were made to tell His story.

Please see yourself as what you are:

Woman, wonder, messenger, star.

Walk worthy of who you will become;

Trust the unlimited power of the Son.

Worth far above price or applause,

Your bright crown came at His cost.

Adopted, beloved, forgiven of sin,

Woman, housewife, marvel, friend.

Rubies, sparrows, all we adore—

You are worth far, far more.



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Olivia Oster is a writer living on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, whose fiction

and poetry explore the spiritual aspect of common everyday life as well as

the elements of life with which she is most familiar: chronic pain, parenting,

gardening, cooking, and homemaking. Olivia’s poetry has been accepted in

The Reformed Journal and The Lake. She has also published A New Grammary,

a grammar book focusing on grammar formulas, and a poetry chapbook called

Poetic Faith. Olivia is a teacher, wife, mother of five, and taker of long walks

with her rescued dachshund-beagle and chihuahua-mini-pinscher.






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cmbharris
cmbharris
Jul 23

The first poem's title is "Summer Blessing," and it is. But the second poem is also a blessing!

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