Categories: "Spiritual" -

• ~Pour Into My Spirit~

  pour into my spirit a sustenance
  of purity and goodness of soul.

• ~Gratitude~

  in parched deserts far ~
  they bow their heads…
  soldiers ever thankful ~
  that they are fed.
  color and creed ~
  are absent there…
  as brethern now ~
  they kindly share.

• ~Honor Lost~

  Abulent sunshine pierced the soot covered glass…
  The feeble man wandered by in this ritual morning pass.
  Pausing but a single moment, juvenescene filled his face…
  Instantly transported through both time and space.

• ~Solace of Silence~

  …surreal synapses…
  …of a melancholy drone…
  …a dream…
  …per chance…
  …she dared not be alone…

• The UnExpected Gift (reprint for Christmas)

  Torn asunder from her slumber
  In the hour of half past three…
  The child knew the tyrannical regime
  And followed instinctively.

• Guest Post “My father, who art in heaven”

  I don’t intend to be sacrilegious: My daddy died many years ago, when I was barely 12.

  Losing my daddy, who adored me, was the shaping event of my life. It made me who I am today. It made me who I was in all the intervening years between his death and now.

  Daddy was bigger than life, a Texas farm boy who became a stellar preacher, and the hole his departure left was deafening and cold, swallowing me like the Grand [...]