Browsing Tag: Optimism

TRUE SPRING

We’re told our world is scary, But—outside—it is not so. The grass is green.  There’s blooms on trees. Spring is as it seems:   Sometimes cold, sometimes warm; Sometimes clear, sometimes storms; All aligned to God’s Design. Fear not man’s alarums For Truth, Good, and Life Anew         —like Spring— Will soon break through.   […]

BETTER DAYS

Maybe, looking back,We will see this as a start:When we saw life wasn’t for ourselvesAnd learned to give our hearts. Maybe it’s the darknessThat conditions us for light.Perhaps the wonder of new dayLies just beyond this Night. We can leave our thoughts at fear,Freeze ourselves in place.I prefer to think all thisPrecedes our better days. […]