Stay with me a bit, hummingbird so beautiful. Stay. My heart still smiles. Source Of All Blessings You bless us with long lines and waiting to teach us patience, with uncertainty to teach us humility, with isolation to teach us contemplation and the time to watch hummingbirds come and go and … Continue reading Thank You For The Lessons Of Life
Author: Michael Kroth
Form, Delivery, Purpose, Substance
Rotate Methodist You get: tisdohteM. Oddly Still, it's all the same. Source Of All Blessings You bless us with churches and schools and hospitals, our sources of faith, learning, and care in good times and bad, in stability and in chaos. Their form might change, their delivery of love, and lessons, and caregiving … Continue reading Form, Delivery, Purpose, Substance
Growing Up In Kansas
An old, red brick house Sitting small on scrabbley grass It was home to me Source Of All Blessings You bless us with time to reconnect to self, family, Friends, purpose, and meaning. May I fill this lacuna with memories, reflections, insight love, generosity, and renewed commitment to spending more of my life doing … Continue reading Growing Up In Kansas
Entering Into Spring
Anxiety, fears Three birds wing by, silhouettes now my mind is clear Two geese pace. They walk Our neighbor's driveway their pond entering into spring Nest sitting alone Branches bare, solitary The leaves are coming Grasses' birth canal Roots in utero-cycling Pushing from Earth's womb The morning birds sing spring buds on empty branches hope … Continue reading Entering Into Spring
In This Crucible Of Life And Death
Generosity Compassion and gratitude and loving kindness Source of all blessings You bless us with shelter, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual when the winds of the world beat down when the storms of plague steal into the night looking for us. May I recognize God's hand May I grasp Your divine arm, … Continue reading In This Crucible Of Life And Death
Deer Tracks and Socks
Along the Boise trails Two women talk on cell phones Missing the deer tracks Source Of All Blessings You bless us with socks. My feet are always cold, it seems and socks warm them and I cuddle with myself under a toasty electric blanket and feel some disquiet for those who aren't as … Continue reading Deer Tracks and Socks
Blue Flowers Are Too
The virus keeps us Home and heart are everywhere Blue flowers are too Source of all blessings You bless us with faith when we have done all we can to protect those we love. You bless us with love when so many parts of our life seem bleak. You bless us … Continue reading Blue Flowers Are Too
Called By The Bird’s Song
My contemplation Begins in dark, ends in light Called by the bird's song. Source of all blessings You bless us with people who care for people they have never met, Who sacrifice for others they will never know, Who go hungry so the hungry may eat. May I be more like these saints … Continue reading Called By The Bird’s Song
Artists Draw From Deeper Wells
Poets, authors, all Artists draw from deeper wells To replenish souls. Source Of All Blessings You bless us with mystery The unknown, the unknowable, and the unlikely. May I always open all of me Heart, mind, body, spirit To all that might be. Thank you for thin places Deep spaces Warm … Continue reading Artists Draw From Deeper Wells
May I Greet Each Day Like Opening Night
Sitting alonely My breath becomes my only One-with-all, wholly Source of all blessings You bless us with red, rich wine and friendly puppies, Birds who sing in mornings and ministers for mournings. Thank you for all gifts unearned and earned alike, Even the gifts, unbidden, of suffering and sacrifice. You bless us with Love, … Continue reading May I Greet Each Day Like Opening Night
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