Does anyone here write poetry or haiku’s ?

[Janellebelovedpig]

Beautiful, @elanor!

[Trailblazer]

So I don’t write poetry- I think I’ve written maybe one poem for fun, and only a handful of other ones in high school that really weren’t that great lol. But I can enjoy reading it, so I was just on here looking at some of the recent posts.

@janellebelovedpig I know this wasn’t even a poem you posted, but I was so encouraged just reading about what God’s been doing in your life! I love hearing other people share what God is teaching them and how He’s leading them. It stirs my heart and encourages me that what He does for others, He can do for me, but He’s also such a personal God that He loves to reach each of us in ways that may not mean the same thing to someone else.

So anyway… thanks for sharing! Maybe I’ll have to go create a topic where people can share God stories.

"Real love is for your good, not for your comfort." -Justin Whitmel Earley

[Janellebelovedpig]

@trailblazer Yes!! On Sunday my pastor was talking about Peter being of little faith and said one way how we grow to greater faith is hearing of God’s work in others’ lives. God faithfulness bolsters our faith. “God did that for you? Well, I figure He will work through this thing He’s calling me to.”

And if you make that topic, please tag me over there! I’d love to hear about God working in folks. 🤗

[Stephie]

I love your poems! They’re so deep and…I wanna say melodious, even though that’s for music. I think I really needed to hear the one about how Some people have real problems. Not feeling too grateful lately–I think God’s been trying to tell me that, but I haven’t been listening. You’ve made a difference–not too huge a difference, but a difference for good nonetheless–with your poetry. 🙂

"Courage, dear heart." -Aslan

[Elanor]

This Generation

This isn’t a particularly encouraging poem. But it’s one of my most recent one. I wrote it after a particularly trying night at youth group. The youth group at my church consists of 90% community kids which is awesome but when there’s almost 50 of them and they have zero church background and most have broken/dysfunctional families it can make it… interesting.

 

How can this creature be tamed?

When left on its own it’s a terror

But if it’s restrained too tightly it will be suffocated.

Everywhere else they have no bounds

Are allowed to explore whatever they please

Then find themselves on treacherous grounds

 

They want no part in an activity

Unless it involves a screen

Or serves their cries of, “Me Me Me!”

 

How can they be taught to love,

The joy of serving someone else,

Or find contentment that’s from above?

 

How to teach them respect

Of property and other creatures

Or to work with diligence?

 

To keep the strong from arrogance,

The weak from stumbling

And still others from self abhorrence.

 

Each of their lives differs uniquely

Often with a broken past.

So many young lives tainted by tragedy

 

How can we heal what’s been broken?

Show them there’s hope in the future?

Or give back all the innocence that’s stolen?

 

My heart breaks for each I encounter

Most are spiritually blind, maimed, or deaf

Resisting any help we offer

 

They’d rather lash out in injured pride

Then to take heed to our words

And let Christ mend what’s broken inside

 

The situation right now feels hopeless

But knowing it could change their eternal path

We stay to minister to these wild souls.

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - Gandalf

[Janellebelovedpig]

@stephie

Even if that is the only fruit the Lord ever brings from my poems, all my rhymes are worthwhile for the rest of my life. 🥰 You’re the reason I write and your comment made my day!🥲

 

Beloved by God 

O the lonely hill
The slow hard trudge up
To the top of Calvary
Where Jesus bled,
His heart stopped,
Where my Lord died for me.

 

He took on my death–
The punishment for my sin.
He gave me His life.
To earn it I couldn’t begin.
O the great grace of God.
O the wondrous lovingkindness.
I don’t deserve all of this.
Yet I am beloved by God.

 

O the weary day,
Alone body stiff in sheets
Lying in the grave.
The cold stone,
The hard place,
All so the world’d be saved.

 

O the lonely grave…

 

EMPTY BY ITSELF!

 

The opening letting the sun pour in
Revealing the truth
That God has raised
His Son
Up to life again!!

 

He won over death!
The punishment for my sin.
He gave me His life!
To earn it I couldn’t begin.
O the great grace of God.
O the wondrous lovingkindness!
I don’t deserve all of this.
Yet I am redeemed by God!
O~
I am redeemed by God!
🤍
I am beloved by God.

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