Greatest Gifts

Greatest Gifts

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Her Purple Doll

Many years ago after I had been adopted, my birth mother spent many hours crocheting this doll for me, with the hopes that one day she will be able to give it to me. Well that day came. I cherish this doll and think of her each and everyday. One day not long ago I sat down and wrote this trying to capture the love in each stitch from her to me.

 Her Purple Doll

Years apart but still woven in her heart

Each crocheted stitch of purple and white

Looped together day and night

Heartache and hope

Binding their hearts

Never to be unraveled

Years later her music plays no more

But her smile remains unfazed and true

 

He knits us in the womb

Each stitch entwined with purpose

Stitched with his love for us

 

The tears were laced and looped

By the crafters hands

Never ceasing as she prayed

For a reunion that could bring

Forgiveness and healing

 

He knits us in the womb

Each stitch entwined with purpose

Stitched with his love for us

 

She opens the package

And the tears begin to flow

Comfortably spreading salve upon her heart

To know she’s had someone who never gave up on her

She squeezed the purple doll

Sending her embrace through the miles

And having the hope of once again sharing smiles.



Psalm 139: 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Saturday, January 1, 2022

A prayer for 2022

 For those who follow me, know that I have a gift with words. For awhile I was writing all the time. Life has gotten in the way and has made it difficult for my words to come through. The last number of years I have taken to writing a prayer for the coming year. I start pondering a few days after Christmas Day about how the year went, what I observed, what I accomplished. Then I let things sit on my heart before I bring the pen to the page. If you could see how each poem, verse, prose begins, you would be amazed at how I get to what I post here on this blog. I don't take this prayer writing lightly. 

This prayer is for everyone regardless of where you are with your spirituality. As we begin 2022 let this be your prayer.


Dear Father in Heaven

Thank you, Lord, for another year.

There are many things that were not ideal in our eyes,

We do not see things as you see

You provide everything to keep us safe

yet we still hold heavy burdened hearts.

Our hearts remain filled with hate, unkindness, and fear.

We are blinded, jaded, fooled.

You give us everything

You are everywhere

yet we turn you away.

pain and bitterness plague our hearts.

ungrateful, and grumbling.

We are dreadful.

But you, Father, have been there all the while.

You are there with mercy, grace, and love

So why do we push you away?

We are thirsty Lord.

Thirsty for more than we know

Lord you are the living water

But what does that matter if we’ll not take a drink?

You hold the cup, but we refuse

Please help us Father to take the cup

Quench our thirst and help us begin a new year

May this be the time when we draw near

My prayer is for friends and family

To open their eyes you, Lord

For the lies to be exposed, healing to begin

I pray Lord for Revival.

A revival so profound that even the most stubborn

Get down on their knees

Lord fill the Earth with hope and joy

Remove Covid and all it’s variants from the world

Help us to rebuild relationships, homes, jobs, society

Show us the way back to times helping each other was the thing to do

 We are all sinners

help us to recognize those sins and repent Lord

I pray that 2022 will restore the world’s hope, faith, joy

And that there may be peace everlasting.

 

In your Precious Name,

Amen


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We all have gifts given to us by The Lord God above even before we were a glint in our parents eye. The Lord designed each one of us to have a gift. What we choose to do with the gifts he gives us is what matters. I chose to share my gift with the world. I'm not a professional. I have had no educational training in poetry writing other than basic english that they teach you in school. All my poems are inspired by God's word and the desire to have a better relationship with him. I have also been inspired by life events that God has led me to healing for. I am a mother of 2 boys trying to do my best to please the father and raise my boys to live the same way.