Friday, December 12, 2025

Infant praise: Advent poems 2

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  Visitations “Be it unto me as you have said.” Luke 1:38 Both respond with intelligent terror. Gabriel tells them, Be not afraid. Two ...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Naming the baby: Advent poems 1

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  Isaiah 9:6      And His Name Shall Be Called… 1.     Wonderful Counselor Jesus, you are finder of lost objects, restorer of broken...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

An unlikely yoking: Poems of the Incarnation (4)

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  For the Harvest Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers…. Matthew 9:38 He doesn’t necessarily want professional preachers, TV ev...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Inappropriate Choices: Poems of the Incarnation (3)

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I Thought/He Says Matthew 8-11 I thought it was honor your father and mother cling to your wife/husband raise your children love He ...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

The Lonely Places: Poems of the Incarnation (2)

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The Lonely Places Very early in the morning… Jesus got up … and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Mark 1:35; 14:32-42 He sou...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Poems of the Incarnation (1)

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  Understatement … he was hungry.  Matthew 4:2 Of course he was hungry after a 40 day fast in the desert. The emptiness clawed and his li...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

A voice in the wilderness: poems of John the Baptist

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Like a Jackal … a voice of one calling in the wilderness…. Mark 1:3 Like a jackal or a mountain lion, John cried out from the wild place...