He stepped into the wilderness He was all by himself Amidst snakes and scorpions To be tempted To be tried To be provoked To be ridiculed He was all by himself Forty long days Forty long nights /verse He stepped into the wilderness He was all by himself Burdened by his earthly mission Of seekingContinue reading “Forty Long Days, Forty Long Nights”
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The Saints I Know
I know quite a number of them Maybe not their faces Maybe not their names But for sure, their works Yes, certainly their labour From the ordinary, the mundane, the petty, and the uncelebrated gestures Done just for the saviour they hold so dear Like lighting the lamp on the altar In that remote villageContinue reading “The Saints I Know”
Don’t Call Me That!
Don’t call me a failure, That’s what I’ll never be, I may not have seen, the plentious harvest yet, I may not have known, the goodly lot yet, The bountiful desired result, May still seem far removed, But time they say, The acid test of value, And I can tell, I am not a falure.Continue reading “Don’t Call Me That!”
In Times Like These: (A poem dedicated to praying women)
It was in times like these,
That Sisera the captain of the troops arose,
Against the Israelites he mightily oppressed,
Until in Israel Deborah arose…
AMARA HOPE 