Quiet Time Rhymes

February 28, 2024

The journey’s too short to hold onto a grudge.
It’s not up to me to critique or to judge.
If I’m looking for faults, I have plenty inside.
When I look in the mirror, there’s no cause for pride.

The journey’s too short to find fault and complain,
To focus on trivial, trite, and mundane.
There’s abundance of beauty, if only I see,
Look beyond the irrelevant, set my soul free.

Why focus on gnats and not clouds in the sky,
Or an eagle who’s gliding and soaring on high?
I’ve not been appointed as judge in a court.
Why waste precious moments, the journey is short.

Lord help me to focus on what I can give.
As I reach out to others, I learn how to live.

February 24, 2024

I’m just an apprentice on my journey here,
Preparing for service and what lies ahead.
There’s much more to life than at first it appears,
As I learn how to listen and follow where led.

The Lord sent us His Spirit to guide and to lead,
To help us to pray when we don’t have the words,
To help us decipher the words that we read,
To give us assurance our prayers have been heard.

Lord help me to follow as You show the way.
Help me to listen to You with my heart.
Give me the assurance I need for today,
That You’re walking beside me, You’ll never depart.

Your love’s everlasting and one day I’ll be,
At last, in Your presence, made whole, and set free.

February 23, 2024

I’m grateful for mornings to quietly pray,
A peaceful beginning to start off my day,
Some coffee to clear out the fog from my brain,
Some scripture to ponder, some insight to gain.

Lord thank you for words that are ancient and old,
Preserved through the ages more precious than gold.
Yet Your words are so relevant, showing the way,
Exactly the words that I need for each day.

Lord thank You for listening and hearing my prayer.
Thank You for knowing my heart as I share.
Lord give me the insight to listen and learn.
Give me the wisdom I need to discern.

Lord help me to capture in words that I write
Your message of love to help others find light.

February 22, 2024

Why focus on others, the things they do wrong,
When it’s inside me my focus belongs?
I’ll never be perfect, but still, I can strive
To draw closer to Jesus each day I’m alive.

He gave up His life, and He paid for my sin,
Now His Holy Spirit’s abiding within.
Lord help me each moment to follow Your lead,
To daily discern as I pray, and I read.

I’m grateful for grace that’s sufficient for me.
Lord open my eyes that I clearly can see
Your beauty and kindness, the depth of Your love,
That You became man leaving heaven above.

Lord help me to listen and hear what you say,
As I read words of scripture and quietly pray.

February 21, 2024

I don’t have the answers to life’s ups and downs.
Does the clay made of mud that was formed from the ground
Give the potter instructions, a vase or a bowl?
I trust in my God who’s the one in control.

God does as He pleases, He’s fully in charge.
I’m only a speck in the heavens so large.
It’s not up to me, and He need not explain,
The days He brings sunshine or days filled rain.

How can I question, demand to know why,
A love so profound His own Son had to die.
My God is omnipotent, loving, and just.
He’s in control, He’s the One that I trust.

One day I’ll be with Him in heaven above.
I’ll be in His presence, the light of His love.

February 18, 2024

I can put myself out there and share from my heart,
Or keep my rhymes hidden and never depart.
I don’t have control over where they may land.
Someone may listen, agree, understand,

While others may judge them as simple and trite.
If I’m hampered by fear as I pen words I write,
Concerned about critics and what they might say,
Then the words become blocked as fears get in the way.

Lord help me to write from my heart without fear,
Find places to share with the people who’ll hear.
I pray I pen words that are loving and kind,
Words that touch others in heart, soul, and mind.

Lord help me continue to learn and to grow.
Lord lead me to places that you’d have me go.

February 12, 2024

I’m grateful Lord for this today.
I cannot change my yesterday,
Nor know tomorrow, what it brings.
It’s just today my heart can sing.

What can I give today to last,
When in the future now’s the past?
I’ll reach inside, see what I find.
I’ll leave some heartfelt words behind.

Perhaps someday when they are read,
They’ll touch someone, these words I’ve said,
Perhaps what someone needs to hear.
Embrace God’s love and know He’s near.

I pray the bits of me I leave
Help someone else to trust, believe.