We grieve but there is a love stronger than death, greater than the life given in this mortal breath. We grieve but there is life in a larger sense that exceeds the limits of our human experience. There is peace beyond the grave, deeper than the quiet of this temporal plane. There is hope higher … More A Poem: We Grieve
These three remain – Faith, Hope and Love. Let’s teach our children, not of things which they must strive to obtain. For one day they might find such things to be built on sand. To be made of such stuff that dissolves in their hands; when they cling too hard, or too firmly depend. Instead … More A Poem: These Three Remain
We have peace and plenty here. Can you hear it in the silence, and the hum of life in this place. That carries like a musical refrain, from one ear to the next, from your heart to mine. We have love in this place. Its in the space where your foot lifts and mine rests. … More A Poem: Our Place
“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.” Walter Scott “I am capable of loving, but I am also capable of not loving. That cannot be said about God. … More Daily Inspiration, 9 May 17
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.” Maya Angelou “Duty makes us do things well…but love helps us do them beautifully.” Author Unknown “Ours is not … More Daily Inspiration, 26 Apr 17
I love. I love from here. From my heart which burns and beats, and smiles and cries. Which starts and smarts with each move and turn of the subjects of my love. I am mother, I am wife. I am friend and lover of God. But my heart is inside out. Love does that. It … More A Poem: To Witness
“sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within” Galway Kinnell “Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.” Bob Goff “Always … More Daily Inspiration, 31 Mar 17
The Builder I am building a house. One without walls to let the sunlight in. One without rooms, so we can reach out and hold each other’s hands. And my house, it may not even have a roof. So that we might see the whole expanse of what’s above, and around. And for the … More Daily Inspiration, 23 Mar 17
God taught me of love. How it was a like a kite, that you lengthen and let loose. Or the string of a bow that sets an arrow on its path. I guess, nothing he taught me was that it was something you kept. Rather it was something that you kept on giving out; like … More A Poem: Flight
“Love can take broken things and make them beautiful” Ellie Holcomb “Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “That is my prayer to God every day: ‘Remove the veils so I might see what is really happening here, and not be intoxicated by my stories and my fears.” Elizabeth Lesser … More Daily Inspiration, 16 Feb 17
Living Tree Poetry 