It was the same familiar garden That she once knew well Where She once grew and thrived But Then The rain never rained And The sun never shone And The weeds grew and grew And The flower She waned So The Gardener (in His mercy) Took the little plant Tenderly Carefully Up by the roots (so painful, so vulnerable, so raw) And carried it to Another (unfamiliar) Part of the garden Where The rain rained And The sun shone And The weeds were weeded And The little flower Grew
Glory
A glorious spread of yellow tansy Growing low and long and wide and wild on the shore Gives me pause And I wonder What would the world look like if It was all planted by You (instead of) me I wonder
Slow
Grinding coffee by hand Because There is something sacred In The slowness
Your Beauty Beckons
In bird song In buds' bloom In babies breath Your beauty beckons To See You Love You Trust You Follow You More
Before Dawn
Before dawn Before! A chorus of birds greet the not yet sun Confident in their Creator (who orders all things well) That it will rise (the sun) And so must I Greet the day with Faith Hope Trust Joy Confident expectation
At the Scent of Water
The horse At the scent of water Lifts her head Then Drawn forward Dips low And Drinks long and deep Water Spirit You
Your Voice
Your voice ( I long to hear) Your voice (perhaps) Your voice (requires still the bitter thing) Wait Forgive Hope Trust and still yet wait some more
Veracity
Veracity (noun) Definition 1 : conformity with truth or fact : accuracy 2 : devotion to the truth : truthfulness 3 : power of conveying or perceiving truth 4 : something true1 Verily Verily Truly Truly What other truth matters Than His truth (surely not my truth or yours) Being so puny So small So cosmically uniformed Verily Verily Truly Truly I am the Way The Truth The Life (if it doesn’t sound like Me, smell like Me, feel like Me, seem like Me. It’s not) Verify it “Jesus answered: ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’” John 14:6 (NIV)
1. https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/calendarefinition. Retrieved May 13, 2021
Identity
Beloved
Adored
Loved
Seen
Adopted
Accepted
Belonging
Redeemed
I am who You say I am
Another Sunday
He lets me rest in green meadows;
He leads me beside peaceful streams.
He renews my strength.
He guides me along right paths,
bringing honor to his name.
Psalm 23: 2-3 (NLT)
Another Sunday
And I wake to the dull ache of
Displacement
Replacement
Ideologies masked as theologies
That
Shipwreck sanctuary for
(me)
Spirit steer me
(and my fellow refugees)
Home
We long for
Home
Colleen R. Jantzen 