“I wanted penance.

Instructions.

A receipt.

Something difficult
enough
to make returning
to myself
feel earned.

Instead,

God came
and sat
on the floor
beside me.”

-God Keeps a Lost and Found

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“Some things
I took back.

The anger.

The poems.

The word no.

The laugh.”

-God Keeps a Lost and Found

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"Say a prayer of thanks for galvanized guardrail. / Say a prayer of sixpence. We leave those / we love behind. Words are what we're left with." David Thoreen, "Shuttle" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry #snow

"Help us to sing - / Even trees praise, and patterns / Of snow - though it's perilous this / Season, to go where we long to go." Sandra Duguid, "A Christmas Prayer" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry #christmaspoems

"The sky tonight a 64 box of crayons / all of them a shade of dark / so that even the raccoons & rabbits that visit / my yard can't find the garden." Gerry LaFemina "The Abbott of the Order of the Night" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry

"The wind gushes / clouds burst / light passes through the window / and there is nothing but time..." Mildred Rivadeneyra Bello, "Naked Time" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry

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Pins à Feuilles Persistantes by Miriam DeSheers-Ives is a poetic journey of faith and hope.✨

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"I'm practicing how to become pure / oxygen, to stop / the poisonous exhaust / of my own exhaustion." Maria Terrone, "Meditation" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry

"A theologian / and astrophysicist walk into a bar. / The regulars are entranced by the homespun // conceits they craft for what we long to hear: / we're made of stars;" Mia Schilling Grogan "One Mystery" in Presence 2024. #faithpoetry #presence

“How long
would You have kept mine?”

I asked.

God looked up.

“As long
as it took.”

— God Keeps a Lost and Found

For anyone who has ever worried they’ve been gone too long to find their way home.

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"The floor bedecked / with mop and broom is the prow / of a ship; the old house / sails on into time, towards the promised Land / and under your idle feet swells / the vasty deep you fled." Jean-Pierre Lemaire, trans. Margaret Morrison, "Equipment" in Presence 2025. #presence #faithpoetry

"I stood at the edge / of sky, days diminishing / one by one / as if they could not / notice I was there." Lois Marie Harrod, "the light that persists even if (Kevin Young, "Ledge") " in Presence 2024 #presence #faithpoetry

"Even if you wear a paper Burger King crown / and proclaim yourself the emperor, // I cherish you, eccentrics of the world. / Nothing dull or drab or lifeless lives in your domain." Geraldine Connolly, "Above the Bored and Spiritless of the World" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry

Faith and Trust Spiritual Poetry

Waiting can be a quiet part of faith. When answers remain uncertain, trust can become an exercise in patience

This reflection considers waiting, faith, and trust through poetry: www.jenniferfahie.com/the-meaning-...

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"I am terrified / to cast all into the wind and step like a crazed child, / against my nature and all known nature, / against what I think / I know, // in order to / walk onto the wild water toward that most feared / God." Pam Vap, "Of Little Faith" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry

"And I ask, isn't that what we all seek, / mystics, shamans, pastors alike / searching for ways to enter the light / where the world recedes, and another voice is heard." Marion Goldstein, "The Many Ways to Pray" in Presence 2024 #presence #faithpoetry

Faith expressed through poetry carries both purpose and responsibility. Faith, Poetry, Responsibility explores how words can reflect devotion. Read more: www.booksofcordellctaylor.com/faith-poetry...

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