“It will be to Me a name of joy, praise and glory before all the nations of the earth which will hear of all the good that I do for them, and they will fear and tremble because of all the good and all the peace that I make for it.’ ”

When God hears our name
A smile it’ll bring.
Joy, for we are so
Loved by the King.

The peace will…

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Question for you,
My blog site that I use now (strikingly.com) keeps crashing or not loading for the posts. I’m 68 posts into it.

What do you recommend for a free, ad-free site? (I’m not a fan of ads popping up and either being inappropriate or just annoyingly in the way of the words.)…[Read more]

Which team? Hot Dogs, perchance? 😉

Those Hands

I stood before the Judge in chains,

Imprisoned by entangling sin.

The charges stood against me truthful

As the court’s session commenced

My accuser stood up boldly

And addressed the Bench of my disregard

For God’s law that I broken.

I knew I was guilty as he charged.

No lawyer friend to defend me

For my bad works…

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Few
Let my words be few
With all Your power in view
Your love and wisdom too
Oh let my words be few
Let my words be few
You know our needs before I do
In long-suffering or trials new
Oh let my words be few
Let my words be few
You know the times are soon
When You will judge righteous due
You’ve got this
In Your control
So let my words be…

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During covid, I really wanted to be a voice of hope and a light for the Lord’s Gospel on the internet and I enjoyed writing and my first thought was “blog.” But it wasn’t until two years later that I actually pursued it. I didn’t have social media…[Read more]

I was excited to meet who I’d been writing for for months, not just the editor-in-chief of the magazine, but also the readers. What I met was a dear sweet community of homeschooled teen girls who both read my work and were excited to write their own, were excited to be wives and moms to…[Read more]

Howdy! So many new names in this chat! Fun, fun, fun!

I’ll be “Janelle Walter” on CWW, team spies (sorry, Ellette🫡). I might write an introduction post tomorrow.

 I’m 23 and the age limit is 25… 😅

Happy Writing!

Life upon the Darkness

Once again wrapped in cloth strips
And laid down on hewn out stone
But now soldiers guard the entrance
And Christ lay there all alone

A sword had pierced her own heart
Where Mary kept her treasury
She knew God’s Son had come to save us
Yet they’d killed the King of kings

A Great Light upon the darkness
Beaming tender…

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Joseph or Jesus?

 
Arrested in the garden
Working for the King
My brother has sold me
The rest are sleeping

Abandoned in this cell
God’s will be done
He can take evil
And turn it to good

While dreams
Keep me awake
I was meant to rule
Is this the way?
Dreams
to be restored
to the glory I laid aside

Favorable dream
In Three days restored
The…

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Eve

I’m an outcast

By the choices I’ve made

I thought it’d be cool

I thought I’d be great

Yeah, I’m an outcast

Guarded away

From the garden where I spent my best days

Now I’m living in pain

Giving birth in the rain

To Cain

And Able

Cursed is the ground

Changing all that’s around

Thorns and sharp teeth on animals

I thought it’d…

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Kylie, I LOVE it!! 🤗

I wrote the following poem for selling to a publisher and had to give over the copyright and agree to not post it on anything of mine. Since they declined my submission, y’all get to enjoy the poem now for free! It’s based off of a fall…[Read more]

sorry if the formatting turned out goofy

It was a good day. Little One cheerily stepped along the path out to her garden. She hadn’t been in several weeks, not since getting Undiscerned’s letter. But a thrill beat in her heart to be back.

She had been to the Sanctuary everyday. The most wonderful place.

“…Psalmic…[Read more]

Howdy! Little by little I’ve gotten the 2nd “chapter” done. Please let me know if it changes tone too much. I’m afraid that this second one doesn’t have the same…[Read more]

The Eternal Wedding Feast

The Creator of our great world

Who made Paradise in 7,

Takes 9 months to knit His image

And takes centuries on heaven.

He’s prepared a place before us

While we remain with all our foes.

He’s coming back to reign victoriously

Coming back to take us home.

Can you imagine all the grandeur?

It’s far beyond…

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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…

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A while ago I asked God to see something powerful. David praises God for the mighty breakers that God is above, Miriam breaks forth in song as the horse and rider are no match for the control of the Lord, and Mary extols in the magnificat of being…[Read more]

That’s inspiring! Awh, God is so good. Good seems like such a little common word for His grandeur and kindness.

Stories coming soon!

And if you make that topic, please tag me…[Read more]

Meet ‘Yore: 🦜

Intrigued? Chapter 2 coming soon!

At CWW, one of the teachers, Jaquelle Farris just kept posting on her blog that very few people ever saw, but she kept at it, got…[Read more]

I’m bringing it back! Please, if you’ve been here from the beginning of this post or are just scrolling and are like, “Oh, hey! Poems!” please add your poems! I love reading all y’all’s!

(Here’s one I wrote tonight)

How deep the love lavished on us,
Deep like thick white…

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Howdy, Natalie and Hannah!

Awh, man, I miss being on KP; I should be on more this year. I love having fellow writers for Christ! See ya on CWW! (And I found ye olde Gwyneth Wise there, in case anyone wants me to pass on any messages to her.) 😁

Hello, Marie! Nice to meet you!

Hi! Are any of you participating in Crazy Writing Week this year?
It’s a week long writing community where teens and young twenty year olds can encourage one another and win prizes for writing, such as Brett Harris singing a veggietales parody.
 

My name will be Janelle Walter (team…[Read more]

Not that I can see! I’m two decades and two, but they didn’t ask when I registered.

So if you want to explode your word count, be inspired, and try a new (or belovedly…[Read more]

“I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much…

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Yay! That’s exciting!! I hope it goes great!

I’ve never played around with the other blog-making sites, but there are many options–WordPress, Blogger, Blogspot, Wix, and more. I use Strikingly.com. It doesn’t have ads, just a big “Made on Strikingly” purple button down on the bottom of the screen. It’s very versatile, as far as…[Read more]

@whalekeeper  Thanks for joining in! How was your sprint? (Also, how’s it going, Whaley? I feel like I haven’t “talked” to you in a long while.)