Verlie Rider

THE VERTICAL BLIND

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autumn at home 004I have a new vertical blind covering my window.
Today I realized it is like my life.
It can close out the light.
Turn it one way, the sun comes shining thru.
Lacy patterns of sunshine pour through the room
and reflect upon the walls.
Turn it the opposite, and I now have a darkened
room, restful on the eyes.
The reflections have disappeared.
In the darkness I can no longer see to read.

The blind is like my life.
When it is open, I can see clearly where I am needed.
Doorways open before me and I am not afraid.
When it is closed I am in a resting pattern, waiting.

When will I know which direction to follow?

How will I discover the right path for me?

Where is the light that leads me onward?

From Looking For You Verlie Rider 2012 Amazon

THE RED BALLOON

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hearts_sToday is the day!

Today is the day

I put it all behind me.

Today I banish the fears

That once haunted me.

I put them in a shiny red balloon

And watch them float away,

High in the sky, on their way to nowhere.

All of the  things that laid my soul bare,

All are gone with the balloon in the wind.

Rising higher and higher

Until they vanish in the sunlight.

Gone as if they never had been,

And I am left with the love, the knowledge,

The presence, and the power of God.

Thank you, God, for red balloons!

From Looking For You, by Verlie Rider, 2012

I wrote this one a few years ago, and sometimes I still go back to it to remind myself that it is possible to put all of the bad stuff in one place and send it on to a different place.  Everyone seems to have some “bad stuff” somewhere in their past.  The happiest ones  are those who have found a way to get past it.