Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Devotion

  • abandon

    “Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you.” Job 22:21 (NIV) What is submit? Compare submit as the giving of something to the abandoning of our very soul. A deep contrast. What we give or what we abandon. The first is easy. The transfer of something for one… Read more

  • Listening, waiting…

    Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord’s people. Philemon 1:7 What do I hear, O Lord? The voices of many and the ways they afford. But it brings me strength and movement toward Growing in Your family in one accord What do others… Read more

  • Veiled and Clouded

    “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” Romans 5:1 (NKJV) Empty me Lord, my mind betrays filled with thoughts for intended delays Empty me Lord, of the veil of night that blocks out light and defers my sight Empty me Lord, of this mind so clouded… Read more

  • Words in Season

    4 “The Lord God has given Me The tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned. 5 The Lord God has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, Nor did I turn away. Isaiah 50:4,5… Read more

  • O, love

    O, Love… All man surely has seen love – from mother’s eyes to mourning dove. Seen with naive, self-reasoned promise, there is a correct course, it’s only our own strayed, amiss. For the foundation of mankind shall defiantly unwind if he should believe power should cause true love to cower. So then in the face… Read more