Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

God’s word

  • 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

  • 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

  • Determined

    “And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts” Psalm 119:45 (KJV) I hasten to Thee with determined pace You are righteousness and just. Wandering among the words You speak I draw toward my center sanctified trust. Lingering among words so clean, Cutting to the core. Freeing from my arduous past, Your face Read more

  • All I Shall Do

    1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 1:1,2 (KJV) Where then Read more

  • there is restoration in His word

     1 Now all the people gathered together as one man in the open square that was in front of the Water Gate; and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded Israel. 2 So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly of men and women and all Read more