The rhythmic roar of water crashing
The crying of the gulls
The wind that lashes over edges
The laughter and the love
The oceans sing a song of praise
The birds and winds above
I want to join the symphony
To tell of Christ, His love
c2022 Lisa Lyons
Overwhelmed
Undermotivated
Perplexed
Inadequate
But he picks up one stone
Puts it down
Picks up another, then another
Places it beside, atop
It has begun
One stone at a time
c 2022 Lisa Lyons
Photo 2009, Ed Lyons, Derrynane Beach, County Kerry
If there was one whose heart was true
Who always saw the best
Who saw your worst yet loved you still
Who laid his life at rest
If there was one who died for you
Who gave it all to rescue
What would you say, how would you feel
When you got the chance to speak
If there was one, you sigh and wish
I’d give my life to him
I’d follow him around and know
Our love would never dim
If there was one, His name is Jesus
Read His life and see
He loves you so, He died for you
Christ Jesus, it is He
c2022 Lisa Lyons
Delightful would it be to me to be in Ulster
On the pinnacle of a rock
That I might often see
The face of the ocean
That I might see its heaving waves
Over the wide ocean
When they chant music to their Father
Upon the world’s course
-Excerpt from Colmcille fecit poem, 6th century
Old friend rediscovered
The dust is off
The hands are rusty
But the strings are true.
How many times we lose track of something in the crazy busy pace of life. The dust accumulates, and we forget. There is such joy in the rediscovering of something that was lost.
Be it friend, family, hobby, faith. The dusting off reveals the beauty of the once was and still can be.
“You have forsaken your first love…..repent and do the things you did at first.”- Revelation 2:4-5b
“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ ” – Luke 15:4-6
Blessings, Lisa
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