A few weeks ago, someone called a local radio station and asked the host if their pets would go to heaven. In a rather disdaining voice, the host said, “No. Your pets do not go to heaven.” I wondered if he’d actually ever read the bible scriptures which do not negate the fact of pets […]
Category Archives: eternity
(one of my favorite poems ever) Move him into the sun— Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields half-sown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds,— Woke, […]
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead…” Oscar Wilde ~But how would one do that, some may ask: Effort, practice, study, and determined will are the answer- It starts with the very little things: a service, a kindness, a prayer, a good deed, […]
Close your eyes and see The singular life that’s yours~ Smile in wonderment… Michele Marie
The Wisdom of the Clock You can’t escape its silent roar Its race is cast from shore to shore Time dashes off and then is gone “A good deed done, just one more day In good deeds you cannot delay Duty first, then right again” No stress in time or things without The soldier’s […]
From a letter that John Henry Newman wrote to his mother on the death of his father. ‘Him’ refers to his father who’d just died: “…The days will come, when one after another, we shall drop away like leaves from the tree. But, being as we trust in Christ, we shall meet one and all […]
Haiku: Secret What torture is this Where you reveal a secret, But only in part? Michele Marie
Michele Marie's Poetry By The Fireside... 