Amy Secrist

Tag: virtue

  • Of a November Morning

    Venus adorns the morning’s crescent, a glowing diamond in this eastern sky, while waves of clouds roll beneath the moon’s waning, this daily joining in, a practiced participation, these lonely dives beneath love’s surface, breaking into rocks of selfishness where gleaming bands of diamonds speak about grace, sparkling mercies rolling beneath our smiles, countless gifts adorning our…

  • A Morning Resolve

    I will try this day to live a simple, sincere, and serene life, repelling promptly every thought of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity, and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness, magnanimity, charity, and the habit of holy silence; exercising economy in expenditure, generosity in giving, carefulness in conversation, diligence in appointed service, fidelity to every trust, and a childlike faith in…

  • Color

    I am not a short thought in the mind of God.  I am not all light and love. I see the red-winged black birds, sentries above the bramble.  Do I stand guard, do I block the light? I do not hold together in one piece, see how my love lay filtered out: patience, kindness, mercy, and the…