by Krista | Apr 18, 2025 | Poetry Blog, Quiet Reflection |
“Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.” Genesis 2:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. When He did this, he breathed life into all creation, putting in motion a rhythm that beats in tune with His own...
by Krista | Jan 5, 2025 | Poetry Blog |
This post is a celebration of 100 poems posted on this blog! It has taken me several years to get to 100 poems. It is now January 2025 and I began this blog in October of 2021. Many of my earlier poems went into my book “Watching for Wildflowers”. Many of my...
by Krista | Jan 5, 2025 | Hope, New Beginnings, Poetry Blog, Quiet Reflection |
I know how important it is to take the time to pause in my everyday comings and goings to notice the little things around me. To listen to the water as it laps at the shore. To feel the wind on my face. To watch the sun as it shines through the...
by Krista | Oct 27, 2024 | Faith, Poetry Blog, Quiet Reflection |
Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Sometimes at the end of a long day I find a quiet place with wide open skies and I pause to watch the sunset. As the glorious colours fade to night I am reminded that God has...
by Krista | Sep 2, 2024 | Friends and Family, Hope, Poetry Blog |
In many ways, fall is a time of change. The green leaves of summer turn to crimson and gold as nature prepares for winter and the colder weather yet to come. As a teacher and mother, I find that with fall comes a new school year, new people, new circumstances and new...
by Krista | Aug 8, 2024 | Poetry Blog, Quiet Reflection, Summer, The Forest |
There is a place in my thoughts that I return to again and again to retreat from the world outside. It is a place that was born from mixed memories of past places visited when out in the forest. I have been to so many beautiful places in the forest. Places where...
