Five Minute Friday - Giving Thanks

Father as I meditate on Your loving-kindness and goodness

Thanksgiving comes from my heart and is on my lips

Thank You for sending Your Son to bear my sins upon the cross

Because of Christ, my sin debt was marked “Paid in Full”

Thank You for the blood of Jesus Christ

Which cleansed me from all my sin

Thank You for the Gift of Promise

The Holy Spirit, my Guarantee of a future spent with You

Thank You for redeeming this wretched sinner

Taking my heart of stone and giving me a heart of flesh

Thank You for clothing me

In the righteousness of Christ

Thank You for Your life giving Word

Like a river of life for my thirsty soul

Thank You for Your transforming power

Empowering and enabling me to walk victoriously over sin

Thank You for the promise of heaven

An eternity spent with You…the Lover of my soul

By Susan Wachtel

November 23, 2012

If you would like to participate in Lisa-Jo Baker’s Five Minute Friday Challenge head over to her website “Tales from a Gypsy Mama”.  Be sure to read some of the entries from other writers.  I can promise you that you will be blessed.

Five Minute Friday – Stay Close

Like a ravenous wolf

The enemy trailed the flock of sheep

Watching and waiting

For an opportune time

Before long his next victim was in sight

A young lamb who had wandered from the flock

He lost sight of the Good Shepherd

Faced a vicious enemy alone

With lighting speed and power

The enemy pounced upon his prey

Tearing flesh, ripping muscle and crushing bone

Jaws poised and ready to clamp down on the lamb’s neck

Without warning the enemy was struck with a rod

The Good Shepherd went looking for His lost lamb

He heard the terror filled cries

Intent upon destruction he didn’t see the death blow coming

The lamb was freed

Saved from certain death

The Good Shepherd picked up the injured lamb

Carried him back to the fold

Tenderly his wounds were nursed

Healing balm applied

The Good Shepherd lovingly spoke

Precious lamb, stay close to the One who loves you

Susan Wachtel

November 17, 2012

If you would like to participate in Lisa-Jo Baker’s Five Minute Friday Challenge head over to her website “Tales from a Gypsy Mama”.  Be sure to read some of the entries from other writers.  I can promise you that you will be blessed.

In the Quiet of Early Morn

It’s in the quiet of early morn

I seek the Lord

Though others are fast asleep

The sun has yet to kiss the dawn

I meet with You

Before my day begins

I read from Your Word

You give me fresh eyes to see it anew

Scriptures I’ve read a dozen times before

Leap off the page and capture my attention

You give me wise counsel

For the day ahead

You are not a distant faraway God

But my loving Father who keeps His eye upon me

It’s in the quiet of early morn

I meet with my Heavenly Father above

By Susan Wachtel

November 11, 2012

If you would like to participate in Lisa-Jo Baker’s Five Minute Friday Challenge head over to her website “Tales from a Gypsy Mama”.  Be sure to read some of the entries from other writers.  I can promise you that you will be blessed.

Morning Light

Tears shed in the dark of night

Are dried in the morning light

To the downcast soul

The Lord brought joy in the morning light

Though anxiety gripped my heart

The Lord exchanged it for His peace that passes all understanding

Susan Wachtel

November 2, 2012

Five Minute Friday – Uprooted

He had a wanderlust that could not be quenched

Moving from town to town

Changing jobs at the drop of a hat

With family in tow, there was always another move in store

His wife became an expert packer

Frequent moves do not lend themselves to collecting precious things

Friendships started were once again uprooted

One could only hope it was at the beginning of the school year

The ripple effects would be felt over a lifetime

A consuming passion is what did him in

Cigarette after cigarette, no less than two packs a day

He died way too young, never to see his children grown

By the time she was ten, they had moved ten times

Is it any wonder that she doesn’t know how

To let the roots of friendship grow

Something is always held in reserve

So that the deep wounds of her soul won’t be hurt again

Will she ever be unafraid of the changes tomorrow will bring

She longs to be settled for a lifetime

Letting her roots grow deep

With the husband she loves, in the place she calls home

Susan Wachtel

November 3, 2012

If you would like to participate in Lisa-Jo Baker’s Five Minute Friday Challenge head over to her website “Tales from a Gypsy Mama”.  Be sure to read some of the entries from other writers.  I can promise you that you will be blessed.