Category Archives: What I’m About — Mission Statement

Nothing New: Just Do

I close my eyes, wait,
and listen for direction.
There’s nichts new. Just “Do!”

Why Write? To Deliver His Messages

If you do not write/
then how can His messages/
be delivered true?

OR
If I do not write,
then how can His messages,
which He tasked me with sharing,
be delivered by me?

They can’t,
and won’t.
They must be given
to someone else
who will do
as He asks.

So This Is The New Year, A 3 Year

My daughter posted a New Year’s Instagram reel of photos, with Death Cab for Cutie’s song “The New Year” as the background. Watching the 2022 retrospective filled me with melancholy, especially with the lyric: “This is the New Year. I don’t feel any different.”

I’m going into a “Three Year” numerically, a year when I will be happiest and most fulfilled when I’m creatively doing things. With that in mind, my melancholy turned into resolve, and I wrote this haiku:

This is the New Year:

A time I can choose to act,
be, and feel diff’rent.

Mocking Nature’s Guy: Free Verse

“The people shall mock me,
and laugh me to scorn”  I said,
“for I am older
but don’t necessarily
have the wisdom others do.”

When God keeps giving you* messages,
even posting them on your giant TV screen,
as well as embedding
them deep in your heart,
maybe you should listen.

OR
substitute “me”, “my”, and “I” for “you” and “your”

Keep Going: Haiku

When you expect to
do what you’re supposed to do,
you must keep going.