Category Archives: Poetry

Strong

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Tom Bolton

This poem received good feedback in September, but I noticed in statistics that not many people read this blog entry.  That has led me to re-post it today. Strong and Courageous How can I be strong and courageous when I … Continue reading →

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In Great Beauty Judged

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Tom Bolton

I was studying Psalm 50 last week, and perhaps just browsing some through my Bible and through my personal journal, when this piece just kind of flowed out. In Great Beauty, Judged God has been with me, even as I … Continue reading →

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Love

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Tom Bolton

Love, Fabric Of real people, we care for festers; Practical, more than just ethical, we dirty our hands. We ache and cry at the end of the day. Like Christ, we love the real person. More a doing than a … Continue reading →

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So Costly

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Tom Bolton

So Costly Grace so costly, the cross is constructed again, true life found in grace. God is at the center, caring, other-person concerned. This life is given through God’s grace, serving life, graced by the love of God. (c) Tom … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 20, 2013 by Tom Bolton

Originally posted on shelbycourtland:
Wherever I will sleep tonight, I’ll get another bedbug bite. No comfort shall I know, in cots, row after row. No peaceful dreams for me. No cocoa, no hot tea. Just a smelly, creaking cot and…

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Deep Dark

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Tom Bolton

At the Cross In the deep dark early this morning, skies so black and veiled, we saw little clearly, and felt the dark fall on each of us. I was there at the cross, overcome with grief and guilt and … Continue reading →

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Refreshing

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Tom Bolton

Working through three more stanzas of Psalm 119 from February 2012: K. Knowing Integrity Your hands created me and you know me. Knowing me, Lord, you help me to know me. Knowing you, Holy One, my friends rejoice– They know … Continue reading →

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