Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Scripture

  • deeply rooted in Jesus

    “Trials are the winds which root the tree of our faith” Charles Spurgeon That which causes us to blow to and fro makes us unstable. To be stable we seek more secure footing. Our footing is on the Bedrock, who is Jesus. If we were trees, we survive the wind blowing with a good, strong… Read more

  • Here we are!

    4That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I. 5And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down. 6And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and… Read more

  • the Lord, our goodness

    5 For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations. Psalm 100:5 (NKJV) The Lord is good – in Him is all good. We can rest in Him with the peace of mind that we are good only because the Lord is good and we receive our goodness… Read more

  • …bearing our cross

    “We are too apt to rest in a bare profession of faith, and to think that this will save us; it is a cheap and easy religion to say, “We believe in the articles of the Christian faith;” but it is a great delusion to imagine that this is enough to bring us to heaven.”… Read more

  • ..the encouragement of our love for God, all together

    “…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