If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill, Be a scrub in the valley –but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill: Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass, Doing something for somebody’s [...]
Posts under ‘Sunday Poems’
Sunday Poem ~ Drop A Pebble In The Water
Drop a pebble in the water: just a splash, and it is gone; But there’s half-a-hundred ripples circling on and on and on, Spreading, spreading from the center, flowing on out to the sea. And there is no way of telling where the end is going to be. Drop a word of cheer and kindness: [...]
Sunday Poem ~ Symbol of Love
Nice greenhouse from Crestock Free Stock Photos There was a beautiful sunset, A rosy, glorious glow. The promise of pleasant pastime, A time of refreshment to know. Tomorrow I’ll work in my garden, Omnipotently pull up a weed, Stake drooping, heavy flowers, Give support where there is need. I’ll rejoice in the promise of harvest, [...]
Sunday Poem ~ Lift Me O God
Lift me, O God, above myself – Above my highest spheres Above the thralling things of sense To clearer atmospheres. Lift me above the little things – My poor sufficiencies, My perverse will, my lack of zeal, My inefficiences; Above the earth-born need that gropes, With foolish hankerings, About earth’s cumbered lower slopes For earthly [...]
Sunday Poem ~ He Is Able
The fingers that wove the rainbow into a scarf, And wrapped it around the shoulders of the dying storm; The fingers that painted the lily bell And threw out the planets; The fingers that were dipped in the mighty sea of eternity. And shaken out over this old planet, Making the ocean to drop and [...]
Sunday Poem ~ God Hears Our Prayers
If radio’s slim fingers Can reach out in the air And pluck the sweet Melodies found lingering there And send them at once to both you and me Direct to our homes or wherever we be; If the old refrain on the violin Can reach us so clearly above earth’s din, If the voice that [...]
Sunday Poem ~ Life’s Joy
God gives us joy that we may give; He gives us love that we may share; Sometimes He gives us loads to lift That we may learn to bear. For life is gladder when we give, And love is sweeter when we share, And heavy loads rest lightly, too, When we have learned to bear. [...]
Sunday Poem ~ Why Do I Love You?
I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am with you.
Sunday Poem ~ Mother’s Place
Sitting on the sidelines On a sunny day, Watching all my children Happy in their play, I applaud them gaily As they shout and run, Thinking “This is mother’s True place in the sun.” Mother’s place is somewhere Near her little brood – Praising, shielding, chiding, Praying for their good. Never interfering With their wholesome [...]
Sunday Poem ~ I Count My Blessings
I count my blessings one by one Though great or small they be, And know without the help of God Not one would ever be. I thank Him for these blessings Each morning of each day, And then again at close of night Before sleep comes my way. He grants me all these blessings Though [...]
