My Unknown Grandmother

My Unknown Grandmother

Sometimes I see you

Seeing me through

My own deep-set eyes

I fantasize

And hear your laughter

In my own laugh

Feel your exhaustion

In my own sighs

Do you come through

In the slight curve of my lips

A raised brow

An imperceptible lisp

A desire to make all things right

An uncertainty whether to

Choose fight or flight?

I hope you sometimes wanted to know me

I choose to feel your

Yearning has helped

Me the best me

I can be

I love in me

Your Granddaughter, Kack

July 13, 15

Patience

 Patience

Maybe the gift God was offering you was patience. 

God’s grace surround you today.

Power of prayer

  Awareness and attention that all is well

     Time to achieve tenderness, no artificial tenderizer

        Intention to intimacy through insight

          Eternal elements energize

             Niceness nourishes kindness

                Compassion completes-walk a mile in my shoes

                    Empty out the dross- equality is burnished

10-21-14

Seeking Mr. Wonderful

Seeking Mr. Wonderful

Seeking Mr. Wonderful

Don’t need your money

Don’t need your toys

Not interested in hearing

All your old war hero stories

Not interested in status

Leary of good looks

Don’t want to hear about your ex

But I’m a sucker for your good looks

What I think of politicians

Is very little indeed

Bigots and smooth talkers

I’ll not follow where they lead

Charity and compassion

Will go a long long way

With humility and thoughtfulness

I can hear what you say

But saying can be fluff

It’s what you do today

That’s enough to tempt

Me to engage

In some light repartee

A Path of Peace

A Path of Peace

Turning from a path of planning

To a path of peace

A quiet mind, an open heart

Frantic scurrying will cease

Comfort, joy and safety start

Down a path where

Seeds are planted

Soil enriched and cultivated

Fertilized with patience

Intolerance is ditched

We see a light where he has waited

Kindness comes as no surprise

Abundant beauty fills our eyes.

9-17-14

In Grace

In Grace

Recriminate-refuse, dross

No recriminations:

Not my business man

What you say of me

I’m my own best fan

Friend of Christ you see

I’ll make a gratitude list

And put you at the top

Jesus needed Judas’ fist

Blamings not but slap

If one dances

Advancing in grace

After Eucharist

My soul encased

In grace

Adores you

Embrace the frightened child within

Dispel all vestiges

Of sin

Our hearts fly

A new dance is born

Simplify

Keep it simple…stupid
Lord, thank you for pulling the plug on my
 “magnificent magnifying mind”. 
Let me look at simplify through your eyes.

Simplify

Seek sincerity, sanity, serenity

I let go of impression management

Move towards truth

Pray always giving Praise

Lead with love

Imitate only good

Family, friends, fun are

Your fortune

Seek sincerity, sanity, serenity

  I let go of impression management

    Move towards truth

      Pray always giving Praise

        Lead with love

          Imitate only good

            Family, friends, fun are

              Your fortune

10 20 14

Flowing Feelings

Flowing Feelings

A repository of flowing feelings

Moving gracefully

Through my heart

The new connections

Are revealed

Each to each

It’s bonding part

Hallelujah, hallelujah,

Healing, blending

All unknowing

Yet accepting

Tingling vibrations

Set us apart

10-18-14

Thank You

Thank You

Bathed in His grace

With my father, the potter,

Carver, puppeteer

My mother protectress

Proud comforter

Procreator acceptor, supporter

Encourager, forgiver, shore

Upper, thank you for the person

I am today.

10-5-14

Three Prayers

Three Prayers

Prayer One

Trying to be gentle with myself – noticing progress in attitude.  Change trying to be loving today to everyone you put in my life. Thank you, Jesus, for that grace.  Please keep my mouth shut when it serves you better.  Make me a good listener.  In Jesus name, Amen

Prayer Two

Of what am I certain today?

That I am a much beloved child of God.  He will free all my needs I shall seek nothing that is not of him.

Today I want only what is holy and wholesome for all concerned and all I encounter.  I will abstain from any sense of deprivation.  Spend not time on thoughts of “oh poor meism”

No taking another’s measure, but rejoicing in their goodness, growth and victories.  Experience child like delight in other’s good fortune and use of their time and talent.

Prayer Three

Today I will abstain from expectations, disdain of others and judgement of their choices, indifference, depression, doubt, frustrations, cowardice and obligation.  I will embrace, willingness, compassion, gratitude, kindness and love.  Thank you, Jesus, for forgiveness focus and especially gratitude for my small garden and grooming my dog.  Thank you for abstinence and awareness.  Which one of us is argumentative?  Help me to look at that, Jesus.  I don’t want to argue with anyone.  It is a a waste of time and energy and is not my best self.   Thank you for removing it.  Amen

Contradictions

Contradictions

The thunder cloud releasing

Rain accentuated the sun’s brilliance

I am the willing recipient

Of God’s multiple blessings

People rejoice

Now the clouds cover the sun

But

For a solid five minutes

They played a duet

Coexisting in a beautiful

New harmony

Just for me

While the birds lark

In the foliage

8/2/14

Hey Dude

Hey Dude

Hey Dude,

Thank you for a functioning bowel

Though it’s sometimes contrary, like now.

I won’t begin to howl

You give me everything I need

By planting and fertilizing

The seed

Of gratitude.

Move me from the obsession

A constipation of

Dwelling on my minor pain

7/10/14

Encapsulated

Encapsulated

Encapsulated in warmth

On this new day

Relaxing in His love

Awakening to His fervor

Opening to adventure

And peace

a channel

A bridge

A beacon, a balm

Release from aloneness

Breathing yes

I am yours

You are mine

Each days new wholeness

No deadlines

Right on time

Opening the values of grace

Hallelujah witness

Forever free

To be me

6/11/14

Two Prayers

Two Prayers

Prayer One

Today Lord, show me step-by-step how to integrate my legitimate needs, my deepest desires, and my unique talents harmoniously.  Thanks you.

9-26-13

 Prayer Two
Jesus, I do feel cleansed and humbled.  Pleas remove any vindictiveness as well as my grandiosity.  Thank you! Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Amen.
10-04-13

Release

Release

Emptying out

Doubt

Releasing apprehension

And

Confusion

Letting go of plots, drama.

Mental scurrying – haste

Driven precipitousness

Seeking and exchanging

Safe hugs

Embrace Christ’s servitude

Allow meekness of heart to

Flow in

Drop impression management

The God in me sings always

Can the God in you hear?

If not why not?

The answer is not for me to know

I am silent with God

Until he blesses me with

The net question

Vulnerability embraced

Gently reduces fear

Of inadequacy

Of fragility

Of brokenness

Of loss

Particularly of loss of self

I am resourceful

In grieving and letting go

No longer of being remorseful

Of losing what was

Never mine

Friendships are enduring

And necessary to the time

Love is forever

I choose both

They are not mutually

Exclusive

Namaste

6/2/15

Giving all to God

Giving all to God

No Walls

Cherished outcomes float away

Giving all to God (Him)

Preferences, not just a whim

Unfold in silent observation

Instincts given value

Letting others be themselves

(Have their) Foot-in-mouth disease

Intellectual lookin’ good

Jaws flapping in the breeze

Will the blustering

Sputtering

Wash me in its spray?

Not if I don goggles

And a hood

Clothed in Grace

Duck and leave another way

Judgement flees

Judgement flees

I am free

To worship them

Acceptance not

Understanding

Gives the words

To me

The meaning is

In my heart

All is well

Image is a lot about

Subterfuge

Lookin good is hard work and

Fails to satisfy

Satration is probably

More than enough

God’s love flows through me.

10-04-13

The Power of Gratitude

A heart full of gratitude

Has the power to move boulders

To carry legions of warriors

On the slenderest of shoulders

A heart full of gratitude

Melts hatred and blame

With soft words and kind smiles

Can shed terror and shame

Can walk hundreds of miles

Will heal years of oppression

Make a humble confession

Will wipe a child’s tears

Love one’s own face in the mirror

A heart full of gratitude

Is more precious than gold

It finds that loving and giving

Never grows old

In the warmth of a hug

And the light of a smile

The worlds’ worries and terrors

Can dissolve for a while

So….let’s celebrate life

And feel joy in each other

Giving Him praise and glory

For each sister and brother

               Kack Nugent 2-13-06

All Will be Well

 All Will be Well

A new dawn and new day

God’s in charge and all’s right

With my world.

No hurry nor haste

Not fretting or waste

Of this one precious moment

In this hour of my life

It can flow to fruition

Leaving cares

Shucking strife

If I cherish it now

Reaching down deep inside

Nothing else can replace it

I’ll not choose to reach it

Nor yet run and hide

No, I’ll love and embrace it

And all will be well

5/1/11

Willingness

Willingness

Praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out

W itness to the fullness of all His Ways

  I nterior calm in the face of rage

   L istening for His still small voice

    L etting go of unhealthy fear

     I nviting other survivors into our lives

      N oting our own reactions -lives moving to peace

       G iving up needing to know

        N odding off when necessary

         E ntering our places of safety

          S taying in His circle of light

           S tanding firm in his covenant grace

11-29-05

Victory

Victory

I’ll sing my way to Victory

That gives my soul bright

Wings.

Together we will soar and glide

The spoils go to she who sings.

Taunts and slurs bounce back

To soil the soul that lives in

Fear

I’ll not succumb and play

Their games

No matter what the cost

My child’s fresh face shall

Lead me on

Through battles tempest tossed

She’ll see what we can be in

Him

Who bore the brutal pain

Then where

Her time of grief and loss

Has girded her with strength

In Christ’s true love we’ll

Find our peace

We’ll sing our songs of joy

And walk together once again.

I think this is another poem but it really might be the last bit of the one before it.

“My grace is sufficient for thee”

Looking back I with wonder

Can see

My sins wiped away

And I’m beckoned to stay

Close beside him

And bathed in His grace

V itality – new life

   I ntimacy with God and like-minded others

      C elebration of each new day

         T ogetherness in honest

            O wnership of my own inventory

               R ighteousness (Not self-righteousness)

                  Y earning for justice for all concerned

Let me do Your Will

Let me do Your Will

Let me do your will, oh Lord

Let me do your will

I’m standing on your holy wondrous

Word

My heart with joy

Please gently fill

Please take from me obsessions

Power

So I may patient be

Guide my thoughts each day

Each hour

I give my will- please set it

Free

Free from crazy making

Fear

Manipulation and foul plots

From gossip, criticism,

Blame

That makes me be what

I am not

In short my savior

Help me today

To embrace dear ??

Little Way

10-25-05

Today's Truth

Today’s Truth:

God surrounds me, God loves me, God uses me when I am honed and ready and willing and He knows I am able.  God directs and guides me when I ask humbly.  God wants me to be clear and firm in my interactions with others, also respectful of the God in them.  Let me pleas, Lord, be honest. From that flows sanity.  Head and heart embrace each other.

Stronger in the Broken Places

Stronger in the Broken Places

Stronger in the broken places,

Lord,

Bending to the tasks you’ve set

For me

Searching out the rocks the

Depths to ford

Holding fast the cision that

Will be

Letting go of selfishness, doubt and fear

(Living? Loving? Leaving?) others in their own dear

Pain

Reaching out to victims as we

Hear

Their messages of hope in loss

And gain

Learning lessons step by tiny

Step

Leave behind the bitterness and

Dread

Trusting Lord in you, our

Final help

Ashes we’ve become, though

Not yet dead

Rising like a phoenix

From the (drass, dross?)

Shining in the grace of His

Pure light

Though it seems we go from loss

To loss

We’re only leaving baggage in

Our flight

Stronger in the broken places

Lord

Let that ever be my earnest plea

Gaining strength and hope

And giving comfort

You poured forth for all on

Calvary.

Reaching out to others in

Our travels

No man’s spiritual path is

Walked alone

Each new generation needs its

Brothers

Building new foundations

Stone on stone

Patience is the mortar in

Their process

Built in new acceptance day

By day

We begin to heal (and see our)(in each new)

Progress

Blending lives of prayer and

Work and play

9/30/05