Tag: child
member name: Bethany C.
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January 23, 2008 12:44 AM EST --
I forget sometimes
how fragile we are.
I stomp like
a boisterous child
through somebody's garden,
never thinking
about the consequences--
and they are many.
I run . . .
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February 02, 2008 09:17 PM EST --
One day, I knelt beside my bed
Praying up a storm, I tell you.
I mean, I was praying for everybody
I could possibly imagine who
Needed the least little amount
Of help from on high.
I was . . .
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February 23, 2008 01:52 PM EST --
I've used this phrase
So many times
On so many jobs
Where I've worked.
But I find that this
Even more exemplifies
Who I am and what
I desire to do in life.
I was a shy loner . . .
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May 03, 2008 03:58 AM EDT --
"Can you believe it's been twenty-seven years since I married your father?" I asked my daughter, Heather. She'd dropped by on her way home from work. "I mean, would . . .
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June 08, 2008 06:38 PM EDT --
Tipsy, just a little, is kind of funny.
But when a man has slaughtered another man's child
Under the influence? Not so funny, then.
I had an aunt once who laughed when her . . .
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February 01, 2008 03:27 AM EST --
Just take a moment.
Smile at a stranger.
Call a friend.
Write an old aquaintance.
Say a prayer.
Touch a cheek.
Pat a back.
Give an offering.
Humor a child.
Sing an old song.
Sing a . . .
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June 05, 2008 02:46 PM EDT --
Too many times I find
Myself chuckling at something
Inappropriate.
People make pompous
Statements about God or their
Godlessness.
And they expect to be
Taken seriously as though
It's . . .
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July 14, 2008 01:29 PM EDT --
I take heart when I see the love of God
Shining in the eyes of others.
I think to myself, Ah, yes, there is hope;
That hope I see in the eyes of a child.
I try hard to let the love shine from . . .
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July 20, 2008 11:58 PM EDT --
I watch him go. Casually he strolls away, leaving me in the bleakness that my life has become.
It's easy for him. He lives in a place of sunshine and hope. He has a future. . . .
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August 03, 2008 05:38 PM EDT --
Just wanted to tell everyone that I am going to be off of Gather for a couple of days. My father-in-law is in the hospital in Natchez and we are going over there to see about him. Say a prayer . . .
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July 06, 2008 10:55 PM EDT --
Helga remembered her sister among flowers. In her memory, they walked together, through a garden of them. Helga had been a small child, her sister, grown, to Helga's young mind, at . . .
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July 08, 2008 12:22 PM EDT --
Don't you know what you are, child?
Don't you know who I am?
Don't you think I know what I am doing here?
What you are doing here?
You are more precious to me
Than every piece . . .
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December 03, 2008 12:19 AM EST --
"You are special to Jesus."
The words seem so pat
Like the kind of platitude
One murmurs to a child.
But, if we could only see
Just how very precious
. . .
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June 28, 2008 06:02 AM EDT --
You know, I've had this argument going
With myself. For quite sometime, now I have
Tried to figure out which is the worst sin.
One part of me says this, the other part
Swears that, . . .
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August 03, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
Carefully, I make my way across a great divide
It's difficult to span it, but I must.
I need to let you know how much I care,
Yet still cannot allow for you to think
That I condone the things . . .
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July 31, 2008 02:57 PM EDT --
I know it is a sin to talk to the dead. But I missed her so much! And I told myself that I wasn’t really trying to call her from beyond the grave, which would have been the true sin . . . .
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December 04, 2007 09:30 AM EST --
Along with the other things I do, I write songs. This is one I wrote a while back and I decided to post it on here as a poem.
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June 24, 2008 02:43 AM EDT --
Once in a while,
I take myself so seriously.
Then, I have to stop and laugh.
Really, who do I think I am kidding?
Not me.
Not you.
Not God.
I wonder if God chuckles
As I do when I see . . .
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July 14, 2008 11:57 PM EDT --
I wanted to get the word out about a group I started. It was the first one I've ever done, but an important one, I feel. Here's the link to it if you would like to go and join. . . .
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July 17, 2008 01:04 PM EDT --
I read this article by Steve C. about a letter he wrote to the person who abused his five-year-old daughter. It is painful and yet, redemptive.
I wanted to call it to the attention . . .
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