April 23rd

Did you ever have urgent thoughts which you just could not utter, or if you did utter them, no one seemed interested? I had a time during my first marriage when communication broke down between my husband and me. Whenever I attempted to share my deepest thoughts with him, it would be through tears of concern and frustration. Of course, being a man, that made him distinctly uncomfortable and he became more concerned with my tears than with my words.

Our Lord knew exactly what He was doing in me, however. During my devotions one morning in September, 1977, I laid my problem at His feet and asked Him to help me. He told me to pick up the pen lying on the table before me and to write! I obeyed. What came from the pen and from my heart that day was a poem! I had never written a poem in my life!

In the nineteen years since that day when I found God’s way of expressing my urgent thoughts, I have been released time and again from such frustration as I had experienced back then. No longer do the tears of frustration flow when I speak. No longer do personal revelations frighten me. I am at liberty to share anything I desire. (My first poem is found on April 24th.)

URGENCY
The restless murmur of the sea,
The soughing wind in the tall fir tree
Echo their urgency in me.

As the ocean waves in cadence roll
Their voices out upon the shoal,
So I must speak my ardent soul.

As the keening wind awaits reply
In its fitful questing through the sky,
My yearning heart too wonders, “Why?”

Creation boils inside of me.
Pure reason toils inside of me,
For, like a child, I want to see;

And like all nature, I would tell
The wonders that within me dwell,
The urgency that doth impel;

How under my Creator’s hand
My heart begins to understand
That everything is as He’s planned.

His hand alone quells sea with peace;
His voice bids winds their seeking cease;
His words my urgent thoughts release.

Prayer: Dear Father, thank You for knowing me so well. Help me always to share my thoughts in a way which will glorify You.