Tag: modern day psalms
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“The Lord Is Near To The Broken-hearted”
Enjoy. This poem is one that I wrote a while ago. It’s my usual style. 🤷🏾♀️ What can I say? I’m Baptist? I think that’s got something to do with it! Obviously, this one is about the Lord. There are two verses that speak to this thought. I was thinking about the first one, but…
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A Million Little Miracles
#confession: I used to want to desperately experience miracles and signs and wonders like the old church. It was an entire obsession. I would scour YouTube to watch miraculous healings and people passing out under the “presence.” I would literally pray, “WHY CAN’T THIS BE ME!” And then. The Lord baptized me with the Holy…
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Irregardless, we still sum headbussas… for the LORD.
It always went like this: “Tell Mr. Jackson I said Hello.”“Red, Kisha said hello, Mr. Jackson.” And I’d hear in the background, “Passa.” If you knew how I recoiled from that one word, that one little dig. Listen. I knew he was being funny and fun—tongue-in-cheek, literarily speaking…and also. He was quietly insistent. Like, all…