Being Tired

Being worn out is a bit like the all you can eat buffet
I take in so much because it is so delicious
Gorging my self on conversation
And tasks
My inbox never stops refilling
My mind is worn down by its demands
And so to stop eating, to stop
working and to stop stretching to do one more thing
Is a spiritual exercise
Not easily mastered
When there is so much to taste.
SPM
6/27/17

If

If I told you God loves you,
Would you believe?
Believe it now
Believe it tomorrow
Believe it forever?

Or would doubts rise each morning
freshly persistent?

Would you find more reasons to believe
Or to doubt
Or would the love fall off a cliff
with only uncertainty left?

Love, God's love becomes certainty for those who
can shake off the doubt long enough to accept
and put it away in the holiest part of their being
Feeling courage to live a beloved life, no matter
What the if has to say.

SPM 6/19/17

Prayer/Poem based on Hebrews 11:29ff

By faith I will live each day
By faith I will for your people pray

By faith I will act in your name
By faith I will treat everyone the same

By faith I will walk this crooked path
By faith I will pour out grace not wrath

By faith I will turn fear into love
By faith I will follow the peace dove

By faith I will endure all life brings
By faith of life's joys I will sing

By faith I will break down walls
By faith I will teach of God's acceptance of all

By faith I will persevere  in the race
By faith I will rest in God's embrace

By faith I will live each day
By faith I will for your people pray.

SPM 8/16