on being a writer: identify

letterswordsverse

jewels that burst

(or seepswimslide)

from the pentip first

sapphire scratchings

wanderingponderings

random hopes

a ransom note

mindlessminding

mindful

musings reach 

resolution on

the map in 

the notebook 

before me

living along with Ann and Charity and their book,

On Being a Writer

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Guest-posting today  at

Elizabeth W. Marshall

Come visit, won't you?

a prayer of submission

Through Christ, my Lord, I have found favor with You

I abide in Your Kingdom as beloved child and humble servant

Resting not in blind trust but in the richness of a faith

Rooted in the testimony of my life

And of those who have journeyed before

When you set the impossible before me

I am assured You will see the work to its fruition

Wipe from  my sight the closed door of rejection and

Fix my vision on the path of possibility You manifest

That I may follow Your lead with confidence in Your design

Cause me to so desire Your righteousness

That I forsake my need to comprehend or control

All that passes through Your hands

Enlarge my experience of Your infinite power

And use my life to fulfill Your purposes here on earth.

offered in response to the story of Mary in Luke 1:26-38

a prayer for listening

In humble patience, Lord

I still my hands and close my mouth

I neither covet a meal nor offer a petition

neither build another castle nor lay another plan

In the silence here I rest and wait

until the din in my head  dissipates and

I hear Your voice, My Beloved Creator

until my breath, my heartbeat moves in synchrony to Yours

I discard my distractions, Lord,

for the discomfort of waiting on Your deliverance

You have heard my cries and I am assured that You know,

not with heady knowledge but with an intimate heart,

the way to my soul’s contentment

Like an infant I exist in utter dependence

and total expectancy of  Your provision

for You alone give care to my body, mind and spirit

from my miraculous creation to

my triumphant end here on earth.

offered in response to the story of Zacharias, Luke 1:5-25