Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Devotion

  • we awaken anew…

    “Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.” Saint Augustine We awake each morning from our sleep a new creation in You, Lord. We awaken in our senses with revelations from You, Lord. We awaken in every aspect of… Read more

  • “…that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,  in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Col 2:2,3 We are never alone. Our hearts… Read more

  • Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.  John 14:6 For all of the arrogant exclusivity claims on us by others that we Christians absorb,  we have altogether come to the Father. We are in a moment of blessedness in our pilgrimage… Read more

  • 3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy… Read more

  • “IT is by the grace of God that ungodly men are preserved from instant death. The sharp axe of justice would soon fell the barren tree if the interceding voice of Jesus did not cry, ‘Spare him yet a little.’” Charles Spurgeon I was once lost and now have direction on a path to God.… Read more