by Deb Farris | Jun 23, 2018 | Memoir, Musings, Poetry
I place my notebook down on the table, then pick it up again, to lay it back down. I walk away and walk back, passing it by only to return. The words inside are scrambled, my mind spins a yolk–an embryo of thoughts all stuck together. Then it finally occurs to...
by Deb Farris | Jun 7, 2018 | Musings, Poetry
I don’t think I am old yet. Maybe that’s because I don’t want to stop growing. I no longer hunger busyness. I have a taste for a quiet place, around me and in me. I thirst a quenchable thirst. I’m satisfied by soft unspoken Word that plays no tricks on my mind....
by Deb Farris | May 13, 2018 | Family, Musings, Poetry
Like the new moon your face shines unseen. Your past now hidden in clouds of recollections. But as the sun streams through your smile in my dreams, you shatter the stars and light hearts for all eternity. Photos of my late parents by Janet Lew Carr at Danceworks...
by Deb Farris | Mar 30, 2018 | Devotions, Poetry
Rise up…Beautiful One. See! The winter is past…the rains are almost over. Buds are appearing, the Season of Song has come. Rise up…my Beautiful One. We’ve seen the scourging, stripes and spearing. We wait in silence. Blood poured out, sacrifice...
by Deb Farris | Mar 18, 2018 | Musings, Poetry
Through sin’s alarming, charming way, I was the wanderer gone astray. I listened as the wind yet blew, and why he came nobody knew. Steep and stark the way to heaven, still Your promise is; I am forgiven. Precious One, you’ve been my guide, throughout my...
by Deb Farris | Mar 11, 2018 | Devotions, Poetry
Breathe in, drink your fill of sweet air. Draw in color like shades of beautiful character expressing God’s own. What traits of His do you see reflected now in your own mind? Look, the blossoms bud once again, though once dead, now bloom, violets and glories of...