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Prayers in Poetry & Prose

Re-Centered

I wrote this a few weeks ago when things were quite busy…but I was a little too busy to remember to post it. Enjoy! xCC There are moments in life, to which you might relate, where it seems as if you’ve got one too many plate you spin, one burden too many to carry, with [...]

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To Give, To Love, To Smile

A comment someone made the other day made me think you guys might like to hear a little more about what it’s like to live life here in SA, at least for the Collie family. The thought reminds me of the moment in the movie Amelie when Amelie decides to walk the blind man quickly [...]

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I Get On My Knees

I‘m not one for creating a religious rule to abide by any means. Or for saying something always ought to be done a certain way, at a certain time, or in a certain place. (Since Jesus seemed to move in different ways at different times.) So please don’t think for a moment that with the [...]

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Two Roads Diverged on a Coastal Route

Mr. Potato Head grumbled along the route from Pringle Bay back home, taking the climbs and descents in stride, weaving his way around the beautiful coastal road. The mountains on the right stretch up toward the clouds…green slopes…rock…fynbos undulating in turn beyond the driver side window. She was clearly someone’s maid, just hoping for a [...]

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For Dodi, at the birth of Baby K

I haven’t heard any news of the arrival yet, but my sister was induced a few hours ago! I’m so excited! I wrote this poem for her at this special time and I thought I would share it with you! For Dodi, at the birth of Baby K My sister, dear sister, I’m thrilled, overjoyed [...]

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See Psalm 49

Hope in God, Oh my soul! It is ridiculous to put your trust in wealth or riches. They cannot redeem your soul for all eternity! You’ll go to the grave and they’ll pass to someone else! God is our hope forever. I will put my trust in Him.

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On Covetousness

Please sing me your thoughts about covetousness. And truly, I would like to know. It seems every time that I step out my door and at every place that I go I see thing after thing that I “need”…that I want and most would say that it’s okay… But is it not greed or avarice [...]

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Call Waiting

Until You feel the timing’s right for You to speak or move, Lord, I’ll wait and I’ll hold on, cos I’m holding on for You. Though waiting seems much harder and I don’t see the way through, I mean it when I say I love You, and I’m holding on to You.

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