Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Devotion

  • Tarry not on the Point!

    When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11 (New King James Version) When I was a child, life was grand! I was the first male born to carry on the… Read more

  • Know He Calls, Pray We Hear

    A third time the Lord called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” Then Eli realized that the Lord was calling the boy. So Eli told Samuel, “Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down… Read more

  • God’s Moment

    We shall pray for many, pray for one. For those who stay and those who run. For dissipation of Wars with terror fraught, For the increase of Peace, an awesome process wrought. We pray To feed the hungry near and away, We emanate a hope upon the Son’s majestic ray. With God, we lose ourselves… Read more

  • The Eternal Moment

    Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you— Isaiah 55:3 (New King James Version) Like the sun that rises and falls, there is finiteness to my day. I too rise and fall from slumber to slumber, moonlit darkness to moonlit darkness.… Read more

  • The Back-Swing Times

    I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (NIV) The pendulum swings. It travels to the right and the gleeful rise and the joyful sing. There is accomplishment in the days ahead.… Read more