All I Did

by Lane | Easter, Poetry

All I Did from the perspective of Mary, the Mother of Jesus All I did was be,  as the angel said,  as the Lord invited…   All I did was choose  to let God be with me,  though the words troubled me,  though fear shook my soul,  like an earthquake shaking time and...

Along the Road from Lent to Easter

by Lane | Lent, Poetry

Uncertainty That place where  my inability to control Whatever life is handing me shakes me to  the place of Certainty that  You are God and  I am not.   Uncertainty In the Time of Lent Brings all that I am To You, the great I AM The certain sure One Here in an...

Beloved

by Lane | Poetry

Before Moon kisses  brisk night  farewell   Before  Sun hugs  cool  earth good morning   I rise   Before the  One who is Before  all time in all time holding all time   Before  I  begin, I  start  again at  the  beginning with  the Beginner  of  all...

Found Poem: Words that Delight

by Lane | Poetry, Writing

Who among us does not have dreams that this year will be different? It is not over,  this birthing. There are always newer skies into which God can throw stars. You enter the  extraordinary by way of the ordinary. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Even a...

Between

by Lane | Poetry, Writing

Between This line  And the next I may have Fought a dragon Or was it a dragonfly?   Between  This line And the next I may have strolled around the block Or down the lane On another planet. Between  This line And the next I may have chatted with a friend Over a...

Pursued by the Word

by Lane | Advent, Poetry

Blessed Lord, who has caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope...