by Chronic Joy® | Mar 14, 2020 | Poems
The Melody my muscles, joints do not agree with the cold every fibre aching as I cried out this is how the Lord responded when the pain sings listen to the melody and find Me there in the low notes the long wails staccato beat you will hear My voice...
by Chronic Joy® | Aug 14, 2019 | Chronic illness, Poems
If only I was healthy, LORD,How happy I would be.No more spacing out my activities;Low energy would not hinder me.I’d help my friends and neighborsAnd do for others all the while.I’d visit people in nursing homesAnd do it with a smile.I’d shop until I drop,No more...
by Chronic Joy® | Jul 17, 2019 | Poems
I want to be like sunshine; not a dark, gloomy cloudBut my mind and body shout so obnoxiously loudCaring not about my desires or plansThey only fight viciously to gain the upper-handOft times I must rest when I’d much rather goCausing discouragement which only God and...
by Chronic Joy® | Feb 24, 2019 | Lament, Poems
Burdenfear nibbles at the edges of her soul, like a rataboard a sinking ship that leaks, lists and tipsbecause she has woken to face yet another pain filled day, unrefreshed in every wayher spirits are plummeting fast and her heartcontracts as she thinks about the...
by Chronic Joy® | Jan 25, 2019 | Poems
Inspired by Psalm 23When healing oil was needed for the wounds within my soul, When battered raw and bleeding, I needed to be whole. When enemies surrounded me, and all I knew was fear, My Shepherd came and found me, and whispered, “I am here.” He...
by Chronic Joy® | Dec 3, 2018 | Poems
It’s not the way things ought to beAnd yet the way things are,I look above and see a voidAnd not one single star.Then in the day the blue is grey,The winds of change are stilled,My heart it seemsMust die to dreamsI’ll never see fulfilled. It’s not...
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