Your Dying Spouse 567 - Die To Live, And Live To Rise

Not doing so well, a lot of chest and bone pain, and it's really distracting.

I hope you don't mind that I recycle a comment I left on another blog.

I wrote this sonnet for Joe Siccardi's marvelous post Dear Lord, which appeared on his masterful blog Wisdom From A Father.

Out of the soul’s dark bloody night

where death-wind blows from ultima thule

I ask only strength of a righteous fight

that will carry my soul past the pool

of black despair, and swimming, part

Bunyan’s Slough of Despond; t’isn’t the muscle

of my limbs, nor the iron in my heart

nor manic energy focused in tussle

can drive me through the dark places

that try to crack my brittle soul

with their moans and demon-faces;

there’s only One who keeps me whole.

When I put on Christ, it’s His strength I borrow

that bids me rise, and meet tomorrow.

Music from Soundgarden, with Live To Rise.

Thanks to Carol Ashby, Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart is back on Kindle, and will be available in paperback soon.

Friends are everything. I couldn't have done it.

Marley, the canine waif from Afghanistan, whom WE helped save, has a Facebook page! Please drop by to see how happy he is today.

Below are my recent releases on Kindle -please excuse their presence in the body of the blog. I haven't the energy to get them up as 'buttons' in the sidebar. You can click on the covers to go to the Amazon links.