Beautiful. It’s a word that has so much meaning, and so difficult to define. It’s an ideal many of us chase and never feel we’ll reach. It’s a feeling of delight in what you see, and an inner confidence that inspires us. And for so many of us it’s a daily question. Am I beautiful? […]
Love Each Other: A Thought for Valentines Day
This is my command: Love each other. John 15:17 Today is a day for lovers to celebrate. We come out with cards and flowers and stuffed animals and every restaurant is packed. That is what Valentines day is isn’t it? There is very little known about Saint Valentine, and so it might be a little […]
Only Me ~ A Poem in Honor of Valentines Day
Only Me A Poem By Joy Aletheia Stevens ~ The moment I saw him I was in love And that love as pure as a dove But then I was still but a child And truly I was a little bit wild ~ And he could never love me ~ I know it doesn’t sound […]
Take Me to the Dawn of Creation
Take Me to the Dawn of Creation A Poem By Joy Aletheia Stevens Dedicated to My Husband ~ Take me to the dawn of creation So I can see your birth The moment the thought of the nations Came into the earth ~ I want to see The thought that was pure in God’s mind […]
Hearts and Souls and the Drive of Meaning
The other day I started playing a rather popular game on facebook. Candy Crush. I hated it. It’s a silly game, and at first it was a little fun. But as the levels got more and more difficult it started to get annoying. I would spend two or three days trying to get past one […]
Happily Ever After?
“Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.” -William Shakespeare Love that does not change, […]
Love Never Fails
Browsing a facebook stream is a typical part of our lives these days. You scroll down and laugh at pictures, catch up on snippets from friends lives, and read interesting bits from all over the internet. We’ve become a very social culture, or anti social as the case may be. Anyway the other day I was […]