Learning to Love: a Collection of Poetry and 40 Daily Devotions

  • Learning to Love: Day 19

    For those of you curious about my series on the parsha, I am still continuing it when the reposting of my Learning to Love series is complete. Lord willing, I will be caught up on the parsha by then too.… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 19
  • Learning to Love: Day 18

    The Guitar I have a set of stringsThat I pick and play along,And if I pick and play along enoughIt turns into a song. I have a melody at heartThat molds into my hand.I read the notes across the pageUpon… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 18
  • Learning to Love: Day 17

    Dreams Daydreams never grow oldNo matter how many times toldFrom generation to generationThrough stories of the ideal.I’m waiting for its incarnationSo my dreams can become real,But if there be no good in themIn the end God can see,Then let them… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 17
  • Learning to Love: Day 12

    When You Seek God When you seek God with your whole heartFor what you want to know,He gives no stone in place of bread.What you ask, He will show.Do not inquire of rocks for help.They are not self-aware.Do not consult… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 12
  • Learning to Love: Day 11

    Constancy and Change When the sun’s fire pounds on the earthThen rises back from the roadAs I wipe sweat from my brow, When the cicadas play their fiddlesIn the dewy grassAfter dusk has arrived,I seek You.When the sand squirms between… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 11
  • Learning to Love: Day 10

    Resurrection Had you not lived the perfect lifeTo die for our sins through Your strifeThen risen from the dead,Oh where would mankind be instead?Every deed and everything would beNothing more than vanity.No sun nor moon in its full scopeWould we… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 10
  • Learning to Love: Day 9

    Romans 8:31 When daily troubles flood my lifeRemind me of Your deeds,And show me Your sweet promises.You are all I need.When gales and winds blow through this world,Teach me flexibilitySo I can bend and may not break,Because You are all… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 9
  • Learning to Love: Day 8

    Sanctification The Lord is glorious and mightyShining on His holy hill.He is all-powerful and sovereign.Each of His words He will fulfill.Nothing escapes His divine knowledge.No one can withstand His will.Let every facet of my beingBe refined by Your holy fire.Test… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 8
  • Learning to Love: Day 5

    The Lord, the Lord Give me a pillar or cloud of fireTo lead me night and day,Through light or darkness in Your wayAnd lift me to a level higher Than my own frivolity. Give me ears to hear Your voiceAnd… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 5
  • Learning to Love: Day 4

    Sovereignty I serve a sovereign GodWho no one should questionWhen He builds a mighty workThen brings it down to destruction. The sovereign God I serveGave Adam perfect life and peaceFor him and Eve to abuseAnd cause all the greatest grief.… Continue reading

    Learning to Love: Day 4