by Krista | May 14, 2022 | Faith, Friends and Family, Hope, Poetry Blog |
What does it mean to be blessed? Does it mean that you will be showered with happiness, goodness, riches, or success? Does it mean you will always have a happy family, perfect health and all the best things life has to offer? Does it mean that all...
by Krista | May 7, 2022 | Faith, Hope, Poetry Blog |
As we go through our lives and experience difficult things, we often discover that we have strength that we never imagined we could have. For strength doesn’t come from what we already know we can do. Strength comes from overcoming the things we thought we...
by Krista | Apr 24, 2022 | Faith, Hope, Poetry Blog, The Garden |
Sometimes I sit and gaze up through the leaves on the trees or I stand on the beach at water’s edge and marvel at the intricate details of God’s creation. When I stand amongst the trees, I notice how different each tree is from another, and each leaf upon that tree,...
by Krista | Apr 21, 2022 | Faith, Poetry Blog |
I wrote this poem at a time when I needed to be reminded that I had something uniquely valuable to offer the world. It is not always easy to see our own strengths and gifts. We have been taught to be humble and to downplay the ways that we are good at...
by Krista | Feb 2, 2022 | Faith, Hope, Poetry Blog, Quiet Reflection, The Garden |
Sometimes when I go outside, I find a place to sit, close my eyes, and just listen. There is a vast soundscape in nature that I find most noticeable when I turn off all my other senses and focus deeply on what I hear. In every moment of the day, in every season,...
by Krista | Dec 18, 2021 | Faith, Poetry Blog, Winter |
When my children were little, we had an advent calendar. Like most advent calendars, you could hide treats in the pockets – one for each day in the month of December. However, our advent calendar was a little different than most. In the pockets I also hid little...
