Streams in the Wilderness

If we did not have the sick And those crippled by disease We would have no need of compassion No care but our own If we did not have the difficult The stubborn and rude We would have no need of kindness No care but our own If we did not have the foolish Those […]

I stood with empty hands to bargain with God for the treasures over which my eyes lusted. I pressed my case, bluffed, and came up short. I begged and pleaded for the very things which later proved my undoing. I put aside reason and sacrificed truth for my own profit Indeed, I lost everything of […]

I thought long ago (I was a child) that tomorrow would answer the question which so often painfully plagued me. I pictured in my day dreams all the ways in which things would be better if I could but solve this one great mystery. To my soul the question still lingers… “Why am I alone? […]