Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Grace

  • i will try, Lord

    “Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.” Psalm 26:2 (KJV) look at me Lord do I return glance? i will try so to prosper, advance in times heavy with fear do i seek Your face? i will try to keep Your pace prove me Lord do i feel Your fire? i will try Read more

  • Immersion in Grace

    For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, Read more

  • His Eyes

    “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.” 2 Chronicles 16:9 (KJV) For His eyes On earth do peer, Patience o’er those He espies To and fro for the meek, Watching us, our seeking cries. For Read more

  • Vignettes 4

    14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Read more

  • And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. 1 John 2:2 (NKJV) Atonement Born in man all ill of will, Patience lost with reasoning unreal. Transparent elixirs alluring call, His face pressed against a wall. Hear the siren’s tempting song, Pressing darkness moves along. Read more