We were drenched with rain this weekend, after a long dry spell. And my heart answered the call of those raindrops when a writing prompt was given by Jamie Wright Bagley over at her blog last week.
to find her own words and the question,
"What do you do when the rain calls you?"
Splashing, sputtering, swishing,
The rain washes everything in sight
Including me!
I come
The drops wash over my soul
Splashing, sputtering, surrendering.
--BG
But when the sun broke through, the call to surrender
continued. Here in this place of stillness and slow,
my heart is looking up, longing to find HIS beautiful
freedom.
And after a long break, I found Haiku words again for the poetry challenge given by Ronovan Hester here,
at his site, where the prompts this week were "Darkness&Deep."
Deep Unto Deep
Out of the darkness
comes a cry, deep unto deep
Light answers, flows free.
--BG
There will come a day when darkness
will no longer hold sway
over our hearts.
The gray of the rain
will be washed
to brightest blue.
The pain of this world
will be measured pure
with healing for all
who wait for Jesus
to bring us Home.
So color my days here now
with hope for the journey
surrendered
and
free
Looking above.
"Deep calls to deep
in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
have swept over me.
in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
have swept over me.
By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life."
at night his song is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life."
There will come a day when darkness
will no longer hold sway
over our hearts.
The gray of the rain
will be washed
to brightest blue.
The pain of this world
will be measured pure
with healing for all
who wait for Jesus
to bring us Home.
So color my days here now
with hope for the journey
surrendered
and
free
Looking above.
And here is the announcement I promised last week! The winner of Susan Chamberlain Shipe's latest book, 52 Commands of Jesus for Children is my instagram follower: ggmullins2016!
I will be in touch with you to get your mailing address, and Susan will ship your book to you! Congratulations!!
(I used the service at Random.org to generate the results.)
I will be in touch with you to get your mailing address, and Susan will ship your book to you! Congratulations!!
(I used the service at Random.org to generate the results.)
The book is available
on Amazon here
for anyone who
would like a great
resource for
Family Devotions!
And click here
for Susan's own website,
where she offers more coloring
pages for you to download.
I am linking this week with these great bloggers:
Meg Weyerbacher, #TeaAndWordTuesday
Barbie Swihart, #Glimpsesofhisbeauty
Debbie Kitterman, #TuneInThursday
