At the beach. . . Heaven touches earth And time Stands still. My mind quiets, My heart stretches, My spirit swells My smallness Flows Into eternity. At the beach God touches me And time Becomes Forever. Linda L Gage (Written at Laguna Beach 1980)
Your little boy heart was open. Words came tumbling out, And I listened and guided And delighted In the tenderness, The spontaneity, The inventiveness Of your mind. Mother and son—so close. Your growing up heart Seems padlocked. You are silent, Pre-occupied. And I timidly knock. . . Missing you, Wondering, longing To know the workings […]
Oh God – You are so big How can My struggle, My classroom, My little world So fill my horizon That I forget Your immensity And eternity? Small people And small ideas Filling my mind Blinding my heart. On this day, please Raise my vision, Cleanse my mind, Renew my heart. Fill my horizon With […]
Anger. . . White heat, Blazing through me Dying down, Then rising up again In new fury, Leaving my heart Scared, throbbing, Aching. Lord, What salve can heal This scar? What ointment soothe This pain? What power can make Me whole again? You answer gently– Only one. . . LOVE. Written in 1975 by Linda […]
Where are the burdens that I bore, The pain that I have known And where the heart scars deeply made By tears I’ve shed alone? They’re gone! I left them someplace Out in the fields today. Perhaps the bubbling, laughing brook Has carried them away. Or maybe little happy winds That played all through my […]
“Be still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10 When the rush and the hurry of every day life Rise upon me with terrible force, And it seems that my time has been cut by the knife Of demands placed upon each day’s course; When I find life too busy for even a song, […]
