metaphor
Message Bible (John 3:1-12): Submit to the Original Creation
Unless a person submits to this original creation—the ‘wind-hovering-over-the-water’ creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life—it’s not possible to enter God’s kingdom.
New Poem: Unplug it
Unplug, unplug, unplug
that devious, subtle, concealed,
and sometime overheated
projector of lies.
New Poem: Your Thought as a Car with a Hitch
What makes up
your body
of thought?
They say the average person
has 70,000 thoughts a day
which is 2,916 per hour
or 48 per minute.
Resources for Teaching Poetry
A homeschooling mother with a daughter in early high school asked for some recommendations from me for how to teach poetry. I figured others might be interested too, so I am including you all in my response.
New Poem: The Covenant of Today
The breeze clatters the leaves across the pavement, swirling in eddies…
New Poem: Be Vulnerable
Let the angels tell them what they need to know. Trust God’s steady hand and correcting rod for thankfully that is not our job.
New Poem: Consent to Go Forward
There is always a solution when we give ourselves consent to go forward.
New Poem: Which Ant are You?
Apparently there are two types of ants.
They differ because of fundamentally opposite environments.
New Poem: Feed the Soil
Poem about children being like plants; you’ve got to cultivate the soil they are in…
Poems Hide
I’ll tell you a secret: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them. Naomi Shihab Nye
New Poem: Your Innocence is Your Protection
Your Innocence is Your Protection You’ve done nothing wrong. You have obeyed a higher tribunal. The charges are ridiculous, trumped up, and manipulated. Human nature, craving personal dominance instead of shared dominion is jealous and afraid of spiritual power and systematically discerned integrity, applied. You were cruelly cast out, into the lion’s den, so … Read more
New Poem: Spirit at Work
Spirit at Work Spirit, as a synonym of God is a hard one to wrap your head around. It is not at all ghostly or phantasmagorical but actually more like a basketball cheerleader. I am beginning to think of Spirit as conscious divine energy. Both types are expressed in me: potential and kinetic, in equal … Read more
New Poem: Back to the New Normal
Back to the New Normal Open nesting is challenging. The revolving door brings in gusts of cold air and crunchy-crisp leaf-litter as well as delight. So very good to see them, but your world clutters and clangs to a stop like musical chairs in suspension waiting frozen, like in statue tag as the house becomes … Read more