I can’t say I have one favorite book , that’s just not fair to the many others. So charge it to my head & not my heart. This week I spent some much needed time reading.
“For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is Enuf” by Ntozake Shange
To honor the late~ great Cicely Tyson Just As I Am (still working my way thru this one)
to the God that holds our bones together, holds sanctuary in the soul, while we are at times are broken, troubled waters, wells have run dry
Hear our prayers O God… allow us to put aside our pride allow this very prayer to suffice God you are my only devotion you are our ultimate supply
must tell Jesus, when the pounding ache, of our lives becomes too much, when the loneliness, of our prayers spill out
We dare not bear these burdens alone
God bottled up precious tears for angels to touch
you shut up the mouths of darkness, you bring hatred to its’ knees, you catch us even when we fall,
“you are wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities: the {h} chastisement for our peace rest upon him; and with his stripes we are made whole” I must tell Jesus, Jesus alone, gathering the weary, lonely, downcast, down hearted touch all those who are bereaved
God you are our devotion, you are our ultimate peace
WOW!! This is so powerful. Maren, such a beautiful leader& Poetess, I had to re-blog. Maren’s work, https://giftsinopenhands.wordpress.com/ Check out her blog, there’s prayer in a poem and so much more…
I am Eva -former refugee, doctor and a writer. My parents were Holocaust survivors, I escaped communism. I wrote a novel, mixing family stories and fiction. A novel about Holocaust, communism, racism and emigration. What makes people leave, and what happens to the ones who do, and to the ones who stay. I believe these old stories are more important now than ever before.