Category: 2025
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Embracing Loss: Poems for Family Love
This week I wanted to share two poems inspired by my own family. The two people in my life, other than my mother, that have had the largest impact on me. My grandmother was my rock. Her unwavering faith in Jesus and God’s promises helped shape my own growing up.…
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Lighthouse
In this week’s poem, I portray our families of origin as lighthouses we rely on to light our path as we go through life. I pray that you are comforted by the knowledge that Jesus will light your path no matter what type of family you come from. Some of…
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Breaking Family Cycles with God’s Love
Family dynamics are never as simple as they appear to be. Not like those portrayed in cartoons. Growing up in a single parent household, my family did not look like most other children’s. I would often look at other families. Even though they looked like a “normal nuclear family”, they…
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April Topic
We are family. No need to cue the famous song though it’ll probably be stuck in my head the rest of the month. If you attend any kind of evangelical church, you’re likely familiar with the term brother or sister in Christ. They are common enough terms for many Christians.…
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What is it That you Long For?
I wrote this poem after praying about where the root of perfectionism is in my life and reading through the Book of John. What I have written is the response I believe God has given me to my prayer. As I recalled verses about how Jesus is the way, the…
Streams of Comfort 