Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog

Prov.22:1-2&4 A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, Loving favor rather than silver and gold. The rich and the poor have...

2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 13 For the 2025 November PAD Chapbook Challenge,  poets write a poem a day in the month of Novembe...

  On Saturday, Lord willing, Mom will celebrate her 83rd birthday! Today we gathered for our annual  daughter-daughter-in-law birthday '...

2 Pet.3:9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise,  as some understand slowness.  Instead he is patient with you,  not wanting anyone to...

I turn to Ps.119 over and over as sorrows, like sea billows roll... Ps.119:27-28 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts:  so shall I ...

Sometimes a new week can feel a bit daunting, when we try to shoulder it's to-do dues all at once! The beginning of today's devotion...

We all desire a beautiful life, as glorious as a chocolate-cherry hibiscus in full bloom! But there are certain conditions necessary for flo...

“In every temptation we face and every trial we endure, both Satan and God are active, and they have opposite designs, opposite purposes. Go...

Today, there’s a surplus of noise in our lives,  yet God still speaks in a quiet voice  through the Scriptures and by His Spirit.  Taking ti...

In the course of my prayer this morning,  what-ifs suddenly tried to force their way in, seeking to overthrow trust with doubt, faith with f...

Through what lies behind we are being prepared for what lies ahead! *** Regret has but one merit; to learn from it *** God cares for each of...

Lam.3:22-24 Through  the  Lord ’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.   They are  new every morning; Great  is  Y...

  Phil.4:4-7 Rejoice in the Lord always.  I will say it again: Rejoice!  5 Let your gentleness be evident to all.  The Lord is near.   6 Do ...