A QUOTE TO START THINGS OFF WITH
I see a young boy
Saying He's going to run away.
Deep inside,
It's already happened.
Ronny Dibbern (Grade 8)
From Ten-Second Rainshowers: Poems by young people. Compiled by Sanford Lynne
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Thursday, July 7, 2022
Poetry Friday: The Problem of Good.
It's Thursday night so we all know that mean's it's time for Poetry Friday. This week's festival of free verse, carnival of couplets, and symposium of sonnets is being held at Bookseed Studio.
I went through about 1.3 million drafts or so of this poem before I got this far. I was driving my family crazy with all the revisions. Here is what I came up with ...
The Problem of Good.
I tried feeling good
But ...
Feeling good fades.
I tried being good
But ...
Being good is impossible
I tried doing good
Doing good is filling a leaky bucket
One exhausting drop at a time
Then I remembered
God is good.
I can ...
Feel His Goodness
Be His Goodness
Do His Goodness
And...
That's not bad.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Leap of Dave Summer Reading Blog: Book # 9: Between Heaven & Hell (Plus Next Ten)
This was not only my 9th book of my Summer Reading Program but the 35th book I read this year. This puts me on pace to read 69.39 books by years end.
Next Ten
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
Knowing God - J.I. Packer
Immanuel: Reflections on the life of Christ- Michael Card
Inside the Voyage of the Dawn Treader - Devin Brown
Writing Poetry from tje Inside Out - Sanford Lynne
What to Do on Thursday - Jay Adams
Dorothy L Sayers - A Biography: Death, Dante, and Lord Peter - Colin Duriez
Dreyer's English - Benjamin Dreyer
Great Short Poems - Paul Negri - Editor
The Light of His Presence - Anne Graham Lotz
Friday, July 1, 2022
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