Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Wisdom

  • The Back-Swing Times

    I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (NIV) The pendulum swings. It travels to the right and the gleeful rise and the joyful sing. There is accomplishment in the days ahead.… Read more

  • A Discerning Heart

    6 Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the other. 7 For who makes you differ from another? And what do you… Read more

  • 1 Praise the LORD!   Blessed is the man who fears the LORD,  Who delights greatly in His commandments. 2 His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed. 3 Wealth and riches will be in his house, And his righteousness endures forever. 4 Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness; He is gracious, and full of compassion, and… Read more

  • 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might… Read more

  • Man’s foolish wisdom…

    4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 1 Corinthians 2:4,5 For man’s wisdom cannot approach the wisdom of God. Why… Read more