New breezes blow dead leaves off of the branch. Gives grandest feeling you still stand a chance. For life to be re-born after sorrow’s stand off, To reclaim the cycle where the going’s been rough. Blowing winds leave me breathless as I stand in its force. Blustery movement within nature’s resource. The deadness is fallen, […]
Poem Topic: Death
Who Will Aid Them?
Face to face came I upon this scene through someone new. A certain man who lived his life, abiding by his rules. On journey’s path he fell therein, and hard to him it seemed. Came down with virus, deadly type. You know what this here means. I saw him crawl in pain to move, when […]
Love Speaks Forever
Though your sister spoke no words to you in her final earthly days, you spoke volumes from your heart in a million different ways. A message can be conveyed beyond mortal, human sounds, for love will always find a way where its words are thereby found. Behind your eyes of pain were pictures of a […]
The Cloud Passed Over
In a service, saying goodbye to the mother she adores, she found her gaze turned upward, through the skylight to heaven’s door. One lone cloud passed o’er her sight line when “In The Garden” was the song. It seemed an apt description where her mother now belongs. The cloud and shadow of that death disappeared […]
Death from the Tools of His Trade
In thinking of your father and the craft he loved so well, Reminds me of another death – the Old Story to tell. Our Lord Himself, fastened to death by tools of His own trade, The wood and nails – instruments by which His death’s song was played. The wood, stained with the Savior’s blood […]
He Died When They Were Safe
First Sergeant Gregory Winckler drew a line in the sand. He fought the battle homeward that his soldiers would understand. With the First Combat Brigade team, he awaited their return, Nobly fighting for his own life, in a lesson we should learn. Don’t forget about the warriors as they come across the shore. They’re a […]
The Shepherd in the Valley
As a minister I have shepherded people through the dreaded valley of death, and have wandered through its chasms myself. A few years ago those paths converged when was summoned to minister to an unchurched, terminally ill man who asked me to do his upcoming funeral. My heart was torn in two at this request. […]
The Under Shepherd
The Under Shepherd serves the sheep — the heart of God’s own soul. The Under Shepherd sees one part. The Great Shepherd sees the whole. The Under Shepherd’s stationed near the beating heart of God and travels the sheep’s own terrain upon this earthen sod. To aid the aimless, wandering herd and help them see […]
The Cains are Able
The ebola virus changed life’s terrain, which buried hope amid a mountain of pain. This channel of death – it’s toll has taken, and with the touch of death Sierra Leone is shaken. Dropped into this cavity of sorrow and loss, God sent the Cains with heart and His cross. The cross defeats death right […]
Legacy
A legacy of life comes down and bathes man in its dream. The pinnacle of sights unseen – it soars from the light beam. Some pinpoint times when beams come down and crushes those below. The dreams were more than man could meet. They come down very slow. It happened in a dynasty; a name […]