It All Started With Love

Daily Prompt: First! Tell us about your first day at something — your first day of school, first day of work, first day living on your own, first day blogging, first day as a parent, whatever. Photographers, artists, poets: show us BEGINNING. It All Started With Love… Yep.  Daddy God wanted a family. He could make … Read more

Morning Has Broken

MORNING HAS BROKEN by Cat Stevens Morning has broken, like the first morning Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird Praise for the singing, praise for the morning Praise for them springing fresh from the Word Sweet the rain’s new fall, sunlit from heaven Like the first dewfall, on the first grass Praise for the … Read more

Be a Blessing

Be A Blessing What has God blessed you with? Health? Money? Talent? How are you blessing others with His Gift?  This video was featured today on GodTube.  It is Kyle from Give Back Films.  What a great idea! For me, the Lord has blessed me with the gift of music.  I use that gift to … Read more

Fishing

Fishing Copyright 2013 Diana Rasmussen When I ride the waves Of fear and doubt Like a bobber on top of the water Floating up and down Spinning all around As the world tries to pull me under I can laugh and say The fish might bite but they have no teeth They’re only trying To … Read more

SEASONS

I am here in the waiting season…how about you? This post was such a blessing, I had to share it with you!

Spirit

SPIRIT ©2013 Diana Rasmussen Heart Broken Warrior Like a Phoenix Rising from the ashes to soar above No longer bound to fallen earth or man Death is swallowed Up in Life Spirit Lives Related articles Holiness (Poem) (scottstrissel.wordpress.com) Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit (lionessblog.com) Suffering is Holy Ground (breathedeeply.org) By His … Read more

Hold On

Here is a great video and song by 3 of my friends from Broadjam: Dianne MacAdam, Nathaniel Jones, and Peter Olach (their links are below)  – Awesome song and video! I need to remember this – HOLD ON!

HOLD ON

I’m tired of pulling weeds
I’ve been here on my knees
But they keep coming back (they keep coming back)

No matter how I try
To light my darkened sky
It always turns to black (it always turns to black)

I need to get away
From all these debts to pay
I’m living in the red (so tired of this debt)

Fingers about to break
Can’t seem to cure this ache
I’m clinging to the ledge (don’t know if I can)

It’s all I can do
To Hold On

And I can hear the train
Making its way again
Somehow the steel on steel (sounds like a promise)

I climb on board the car
Nothing but my guitar
And try to lose the fear (and leave the darkness)

I’m leaving all I know
I’m going with the flow
And pray my soul’s fulfilled (I’m leaving all I know)

The only way to see
If this is right for me
Is to leave the status quo (I’m leaving all I know)

It’s all I can do
To Hold On

You’re battered, bruised and scarred
This life can be so hard
You must remember Who You Are

Take the time to breathe
The water will recede and
Find a way to stop the bleeding
Hold On
Hold on

Lyric Credits: Dianne MacAdam
Music Credits: Nathaniel Jones / Protilius Productions
Producer Credits: N. Jones / Protilius Productions Recorded at Sound Mind Studios – John DiSanto / Engineered by N. Jones
Performance Credits: N. Jones / Dianne MacAdam

Video Credits: Video by Peter Olach, PGO Multimedia Song produced by Nathaniel Jones, Protilius Productions

Do you work or play?

I had the pleasure of a ‘coffee date’ with my teenage daughter last night.  Twice a month we go listen to live music at our local coffee shop.  It was fun, and I am amazed at the Local Talent here in southern WI.  Anyway, this coffee shop puts up a quote a day. Here is … Read more

Hope, Mercy, Grace and Love

Hope, Mercy, Grace and Love Copyright 2013 Diana Rasmussen Hope closes her Eyes To see sparks in our hearts Mercy sits Beside us And Loves us anyway Grace says Yes despite our inadequacies Love looks Beyond what is to what will someday be Related articles Let Grace Carry You ~ (poetrybydeborahann.wordpress.com) God’s Mercy in Messed … Read more

Don’t Be a Rock

  https://twitter.com/braam_lourens/status/388993856853008384 https://twitter.com/CaliMomma_LBC/status/388827476798869504 Forgiveness softens the hardest hearts – give yours today. Let love flow like a river. It doesn't matter who was right. Don't be a rock! — Prayers and Promises (@PrayersPromises) October 12, 2013 The devil knows your name yet calls you by your sin. God knows your sin yet calls you by … Read more

I Choose…

“I Choose Love… No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves. I Choose Joy… I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical. I will refuse to see people as anything less than … Read more

Hope

HOPE Copyright 2013 Diana Rasmussen Hope Anchored Not on Earth But in Heaven Holds us steady in all the storms of life (All images from Pinterest.com) I have recently been invited to join as an Author on POET’S CORNER.  I wrote this poem for one of the Poetry Challenges – a TETRACTYS. Yeah, I had never … Read more