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I hope everyone is doing ok. 🙂 I know I haven’t been on much. I have been taking on other endeavors. I created my own website which features original poetry, a short story, and some sermons that I did. I hope this will inspire and if you are interested, I invite you to check it out here: https://www.carlyswritingsandteachings.com/. Also, I’m accepting donations to help support my friend Stephanie, who is undergoing breast cancer treatments. If you like to find out more, click here: https://www.carlyswritingsandteachings.com/donate. All the donations will go towards her treatments. You can donate through PayPal.
Sincerely,
Carly
Light is Around Me
Light is around me
Darkness, don’t drown me
Don’t keep your lamp hidden
Even if your soul is bed ridden
There’s a chance for new discovery
Give your inner man a new way to see
Wash away the bad nightmares of yore
And shine that light again forevermore
(C) Carly Wiggins 2020
Senses
Like ribbons of sound waves
That echo in your mind
Vibrations of noise resonate with me
Sight is a beautiful display of colors and shapes
Do you see the color red as I do?
I’ll never know if you see the tone as I do
I am aware of many textures around me
From the lumpy dirt to the soft sand
Or the sun on my skin or the cool snow
I smell the goodness around me
Roses and warm apple pie
They excite the receptors
I can taste the ice cream cones
As I get to the tasty chocolate end of the cone
These senses are unique and serve a purpose
(C) Carly Wiggins 2020
Broken Universe
Father, I need your glory
I am in a broken universe
Amidst an evil force
It wants us to feel unloved
May we walk with people
In their despair
Instead of giving them crutches
For their headache
And saying I love you bunches
We are scared of others brokenness
Because it reminds us of ours
Do you have compassion for the one under bars?
Truth sets us free like owning our ache
You’re the final piece to someone’s heart break
(C) Carly Wiggins 2020
Heaven is Still Unwritten
Heaven… still unwritten
Beauty beyond description
Angels… singing praises
Catching the Father’s gaze
Forever, forever, forever
I truly cannot wait
Now I surrender, surrender
Dreams… coming alive
No reason to strive
Crystal sea.. take a drink
It’s closer than you think
Forever, forever, forever
I truly cannot wait
Now I surrender, surrender
Sin… no more
A hope you are looking for
Seeing Jesus… face to face
Removing all earthly disgrace
Forever, forever, forever
I truly cannot wait
Now I surrender, surrender
Endless life…with no end
Eons of a timeless Friend
Friendships… Never ceases
As eternal love increases
(C) Carly Wiggins 2020
Haikus & Emotions
GRATEFUL HAIKU
Pulsating organ
Pumping oxygen to brain
Grateful daily to my God
SORROW HAIKU
Tears of rain sweep down
On the hard asphalt of society
Will we ever change for the better?
FREEDOM HAIKU
All children prance
Around the freedom of life
Why do adults miss the chance?
(C) Carly Wiggins 2020
Mother Nature Musing
As I stroll over to the orchard bench, I notice sunlight setting on a hill nearby. It creates a shadow with a red rue. It’s a subtle beauty. It briefly reminds me to forget all my recent unfortunate occurrences. The cascading shadow is a promise taking shape — lights, and shadows are blending in harmony. As humans, we get stuck on the little things that no longer serve us. The times we get stuck in traffic, deadlines we have to make, being sick and receiving an unfortunate prognosis, we forgot to look inward instead of outward. The external beauty of nature reminds me to look internally. Nature is like medicine to let go of past regret and shame to see life as it truly is.
We may be late to work because of traffic but if we always try our best to be on time, does it really matter in the scheme of things? If our boss doesn’t understand that it was because of traffic, then don’t take it personally, but look at that hill in the orchard with that cascading shadow and life will make more sense. We are the neurotic ones living with Mother Nature, who sustains more balance and flexibility than we give it credit.
I can struggle with inflexibility to changes to my routine. I like change if it’s an exciting change that I have been through before. But unexpected and dubious change is the worst. One time, I flew and there was a two-hour layover to my connecting flight. After two hours we were told we had to change planes so there was another hour delay. Flying, waiting, and getting home late isn’t something I enjoy. Like anyone, I just want to get there. I am just more anxious about the delays than someone who is more chill with the unknown.
However, nature changes seasons without a second thought. From fall to winter to spring to summer. It doesn’t willfully decide to say fall is almost over; we aren’t going to change to winter and cover the ground with snow. No, the temperatures drop, and the rain turns to snow. It is a beautiful event to witness — nature at its best.
The ground encloses with sheets of snow, purifying and, however, dissonant to those who stand in its way. Mother Nature only plays one game, and that is the game of “keep up with me.” But if you play her game, you’ll be surely blessed. We have seen what happens when we don’t play along. I believe God and Mother Nature go hand in hand.
But Mother Nature and humanity will be restored to its original intention and beauty (even though it is still beautiful) when God creates a new Earth. For the Bible says in Romans 8:18-21, “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God” (NIV).
Summer Rain Love
The summer rain
Bringing in the heat
Showering the plants and flowers
But I could stay on this patio for hours
Looking into your eyes
You are my summer rain love
You are refreshing my soul
Like the Word of God
With your rejuvenating soul
Your presence makes me whole
I smell the crisp vegetation bloom
After you “rained” in my heart
(C) Carly Wiggins 2020
How Can I?
I ask if you love them
You say, “How can I?”
“I am only human”
But we are called to a higher place
To love everyone
I ask if you felt whole by them
You say, “How can I?”
They always get under someone’s skin
But we are to look into our own eyes
And pull out the planks
People change like every season
Broken promises like leaves
Fall like Mother Nature teasin’
We crush them with our feet
And walk forward
Where’s peace and justice?
I am not really sure
I just see evil persist
But when the leaves fall
They will return to the Earth
(C) Carly Wiggins 2019