Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog

Create in me a clean heart, O God;  and renew a right spirit within me. Ps.51:10 Yesterday on Facebook, my youngest sister  shared a treasur...

My friend gave me this book for Christmas. She cautioned that it might make me shed some tears. It did.  But what worthwhile tears they are ...

To list all the ways today's poem was inspired, is difficult to encapsulate... But it is a corralling of wonder wakened while pondering ...

Life is full of trouble and sorrow; joy's startling sweetener! Sometimes when asked what my favourite Bible verse is I hardly know which...

2 Thess.3:5 Now may the Lord direct your hearts  into the love of God  and into the patience of Christ. Sometimes, whether intentionally or ...

Therefore humble yourselves  under the mighty hand of God,  that He may exalt you in due time,   7 casting all your care upon Him,  for He c...

Today's post is inspired in part by Rom. 8 and   in part by the final chapters of George Mueller of Bristol (what a testimony his life ...

This didn't go as planned! To Grand sonny's 7 yr. old logic it made perfect sense to take a stick  and whack the snow and ice out of...

Sometimes love's realities/cruelties/crosses could wake excuses that could make us bitter... Oh my Lord, may it never be!! The Love of G...

Every so often I love to crank up this song... it brings a sense of Heaven to earth! Worship: Earth's beginning to Heaven's Eternity...

Happy Labour Day! (Here's hoping mine will soon taste like tomato soup, salsa etc.! ) For this Labour Day I chose these two passages bel...

  Not so enlightened, as to be Careless with hope’s security Not so engrossed in earthliness   I do not prize faith's promises Not so pr...