Purpose Poems
As I shared on the Life Songs page, when I began writing my blog and established this website to house it in 2014, I didn't know at the time that this would later lead me to writing songs in 2021. And even though songs are essentially poems set to music, I didn't begin writing stand-alone poems until December 2022 - a Christmas poem as it were.
Christmas was when Jesus came down to earth and became God in human form - when He became like us. When He became God with us. When He came to experience every form of human suffering that we could ever experience.
So the fact that the first poem I ever wrote was on the topic of Christmas is just beautiful, because it was around that time when I came to understand to gift of suffering, as I wrote about in this blog post titled as such: The Gift of Suffering. And it is through suffering that I have come to know my purpose like never before.
Thus why I have named this category Purpose Poems - which also happens to correspond to my tagline: "Finding joy and purpose in everyday living." I created this tagline back in 2014, well before I ever knew that I would be adding this additional content to my website. But God knew. God knew all along.
And I pray that as you read my Purpose Poems, God will reveal to you the purposes that He's had for you all along as well.
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He Set Me Free (Free Indeed)
He set me free. Yes, He set me free. Gone are the shackles around my feet. He won the battle, what sweet victory...
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If You Only Knew (What God Can Do)
If you only knew what I’ve been through, you would understand the magnitude of how God’s hands have pulled me through, if you only knew...
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Leaving Normal Behind
My life left normal a long time ago, I had no choice for it to be so, I tried to hang on but was forced to let go of the life I had come to love and know ...
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When Mother’s Day Is Hard
For the mom you never knew, or with whom times were too few, the mom who wasn’t there for you. The mom whose life was way too short, who too soon left this world, and left your heart longing for more ...
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In the Name of Jesus
In the name of Jesus, I reject fear, get out, get out, you have no place here. In the name of Jesus, I reject strife, get out, get out, you have no say in my life ...
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Have You Heard
Have you heard, is what they say, have you heard the trouble that has come someone’s way? Oh yes, I’ve heard, I’ve heard it all before, and I’m not listening to it anymore ...
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God Had Other Plans
My parents didn’t plan to have a fourth child, but I came along to their surprise, for God had other plans. As a child, I was shy, but as I grew I’d find myself leading others, despite what I had in mind, because God had other plans ...
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Made for More
I am made for more. You are made for more. We are made for more. More than this. And You, God, You are doing a new thing...
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The Day After Christmas
The day after Christmas, I never have to guess, the state of my house, it's always a mess. Year after year, what a mess I see., as I awake from slumber, and survey the scene ...
