Grief has been running rivers through my heart these past few days.
You left us early and with little warning.
Half a world away and more than ten years since I have seen you.
Yet, the weight of your impression on my life remains.
Your exuberance for life, your passionate love for your Savior,
And your gentle care for those around you nudge me in those directions.
You continue to make me want to live my life full of love and purpose.
The Omaha winter
Stretches its fingers
Into the fall
With crisp blasts of air
It’s a warning
To prepare
“Don’t take me lightly!”
She says
“I am just around the corner.”
The swirling colors
Of the trees
Take their time
To reply
“OK, OK,
We’re leaving
We’re leaving.”
Everything lost
Shall be found
Everything left behind
Catches up
There is a rhythm
There is a rhyme
A purpose
And a plan
A weaving and a spinning
Healing and redemption
When we see
As we are seen
And know
As we are known
When love reigns
In the air
On the earth
And in the sea
© 2012 Julie Clark
It was bound to come
Tourists are going home
Leaving the beaches and the board walks
School bells are ringing
Teachers are working hard again
Last minute shopping to get the son still left in college
Supplied with peanut butter and pencils
That crispness is in the evening air
Our sunny days are numbered
Time to buy the winter fuel
Started a knitting project two days ago
(Don’t tell anyone but, I am missing the rain)
Life and Time are moving forward
We are all ushered into their dance
No one gets to sit it out
All is changing
All is turning
© 2012 Julie Clark
The ache in our hearts
Is the call
To come deeper
Come closer
To the One
Who sees us
Knows us
Loves us
And satisfies us
Beyond all measurement.
We don’t always
Recognize
The voice
In our pain
We run
To another
Temporary comfort
That leaves us
Hollow and unsatisfied
Self-hating and
Aching for
The true source
Of all that we need.
It is a learning
To be turning
Towards that faint sound
Of the rushing river
To be seeking
In desperation
For that Living Water
Like a deer
Panting
A matter of life or death
To find and
To know that
We have been found
And we are known
And brought safely
Home.
© 2012 Julie Clark
I cannot see it
But I am taking it with me
It travels well
Lasts forever
I’m hanging onto hope
Not letting it go
Even though
Hope stealers
Stand on every corner
In my mind
“Just give up!”
“You’ll never make it.”
“Life is too hard.”
No
I am not listening
Pushing past
Because
I have done this before
And I know
Life and Light
Are just beyond
The corner of my pain
Hope packs well
Into my heart
Fits snuggly next to
Faith and Love
© 2012 Julie Clark
Pressure all around
Chaos in the air
I don’t know which way is up
Which is down
It must be time for change
Again
Now to see this dark
In the light
That is my challenge
That is my goal
To cooperate
With the forces at work
To change me more into
The person I long to be
The one I was breathed to be
So much is out of my control
Yet so much is in my power
To say yes
And let go
To watch this fire
Burn all that is not gold
© 2012 Julie Clark
Pieces of God
Treasures
Hidden in all the earth
Until we see them
And wonder how we had
Missed the evidence
Of their existence
Am I one?
With His DNA
Hidden like a diamond
To be discovered
In my heart?
© 2012 Julie Clark
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