Lord,
Everything I have seems to be slipping
Through my fingers.
Tangible is so temporary
And things I’ve always valued
Are quickly gone
From my grasp.
I moan,
I weep,
I sing.
For while my hands are empty,
My heart is full.
Your love . . .
My trust in you . . .
Intangible . . . real . . . true.
I have nothing
Yet I possess everything.
By Martha L Shaw – © 2013
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We walk the streets .. .
the buzz of digital noise . . .
and echo of animated humans . . .
yet we do not hear nor see them. . .
they are faceless . . .
We wonder what the world is coming to . . .
we ask where is the Lord in this . . .
He looks lovingly at His lost creation . . .
and weeps .. .
By Martha L Shaw – © 2018
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My bread dough rises like the sun
In a cold unleavened sky.
My heart is warmed,
My hands reaching out
To prepare the loaf it will become,
To bake,
To break,
To share.
By Martha L Shaw – © 1-2015
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I wanted to give the right gift,
the perfect one.
I had little money
and few skills.
IT NEEDED TO BE PERFECT!
I grew more and more disappointed.
Eventually,
with tears in my eyes
and empty hands,
I threw myself to the ground
and cried out
“I love you!”
He was pleased.
By Martha L Shaw – © 2017
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We search high and low,
seeing everything
and finding nothing.
Frowning becomes moaning
as we steal the joy from other hearts
and toss it away in disgust.
The challenge will never be met
lest we realize the Truth.
What we seek is already within us!
By Martha L Shaw – © 2015
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A palm branch welcome
A donkey ride, “hosanna!!”
enroute to the tree
By Martha L Shaw © 2015
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AT ONCE, when I committed my life to the Lord, these weak human eyes and this flawed human heart saw His Light, love, and beauty EVERYWHERE. I was looking with the same tired eyes at the same spaces and places, but His heart in mine showed me what I had been missing! Raking the brush in my yard, I gazed at the pile of twigs and such, and saw something more. Within minutes, my hands assembled this cross entirely from a pile of brush. Oh, how much more He can do when we turn in faith and love to Him!
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The rain continues to pour
As darkness claims the sky
But
I looked up
And saw through a crack in a cloud
That the sun is still near.
Hope rises.
By Martha L Shaw – © 2014
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My bread dough rises like the sun
In a cold unleavened sky.
My heart is warmed,
My hands reaching out
To prepare the loaf it will become,
To bake,
To break,
To share.
By Martha L Shaw – © 1-2015
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