Following
Photo by Jaime Dantas on Unsplash Your stride is long and swift Quickly you forge ahead I lag behind Still I follow sure and steady Watching where you lead The landscape’s larger from this vantage point I surmise where you are heading And when obstacles emerge I call...
The Gift
Photo by Ranier Rideo on Unsplash Have You known all along how feeble I am? How timid my strength, my resilience so frail? Did you know that the tests of my proud, selfish heart would serve just to prove how often I fail? How I want just to earn a small part of...
A Prayer for the New Year
I’m not good at setting New Year’s Resolutions, never have been. I’m not a goal-oriented person, and even when I try to be I end up in a pit of discouragement since I am rarely able to achieve the goals I set. Goals scare me, to be honest, because the achievement of...
Prayer of My Heart
Photo by Diana Simumpande on Unsplash Almighty God, we cry out to you in this hour where your hand is so clearly at work in the world. We thank you, Father, for your good and perfect work, asking that you equip your children–your church–to enter in to what you are...
Janet Fichter, Author
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