Peaceable Walks with God

Peaceable Walks with God is a prayer of longing for fellowship with God. I hope this prayer-poem inspires you today.

Today’s post is the twentieth one in the #write28days challenge, in which I’m participating during the month of February 2021. Today’s prompt is “Peaceable,” and here is my prayer/poem.

Peaceable Walks with God

Father God,

In this fortnight of ice and snow

I’ve missed my walks with you.

Walks outside that connect me

with you and your creation

no matter which season

is upon me.

The bitterly cold

northern jet stream

brought us nine inches

of snowflakes

millions upon millions

piled up here

on my eight acres

and kept me from my daily walks.

Yet this cold pause

has made me appreciate

peaceable walks with you

all the more.

A few days from now

you’ll place us in the thaw

and I’ll put on my shoes and jacket

grab the dog’s leash

and head toward our familiar path.

I’ve walked the same way

thousands of times before

yet learn something new

each time

in our communion.

On the way to the bridge

I pour my heart out to you

all the joys and frustrations

combined in a messy pile.

Then on the way back home

I wait to hear your voice.

You always first say

I love you

then you give me fresh

insight into my problems

new and different ways

of seeing your world

uncovered paths to take

when stone walls

blocked the horizon.

Your perspective

fills me with deep peace

I get nowhere else.

Lord, let your sun shine

to melt the snow

and send your rain

to wash it away

so I can rejoin you again

on that peaceable path

of our intimacy.

Soon.

Want to see pictures of my prayer walks with God and my dog, Memphis? Head HERE for a hope-filled peek from spring 2020, and HERE for a peek of our search for green hope in my woods, even in winter.

Read all my posts in the Write 28 Days challenge HERE.

Peaceable Walks With God

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