Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

love

  • …demystifying our God

    Polycarp 8:2 Let us therefore become imitators of His endurance; and if we should suffer for His name’s sake, let us glorify Him. For He gave this example to us in His own person, and we believed this. As we follow the Christian path, we seek the way through concise focus on our Father in… Read more

  • our heavenly instruction

     36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” (Mt 22:36-40)  Heart –… Read more

  • …a drop in a bucket

    Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but… Read more

  • …joy from our heart

    4He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion. Psalm 111 (KJV) If we are created by God, we are wonderful works. Not just we of one accord in Jesus, but all mankind. The prerogative of love should not just be a commandment, but a natural expression… 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