by Garris Elkins | Nov 11, 2010 | Transition, Verse
Poised and suspended now attached to what is known, familiar, doable. A release is coming, a falling and a rising up to meet me, of something new and undefined. Needing, even wanting, to see the release, trembling like a water droplet hanging on clinging amidst the...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 2, 2010 | Faith, Forgiveness, Hope, Humility, Prayer, Restoration
I am in middle of God’s blessing. This is one of the most significant seasons of God’s presence and provision in my life – the most I have experienced in the last 30 years. All of this is taking place in the middle of a financial and emotional...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 31, 2010 | Poetry, Verse
I would not venture to guess where she ends and I begin. Of one flesh we have become both losing ourselves and finding ourselves in that oneness. Still a mystery how we cannot tell where each ends and each begins. Of oneness we...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 31, 2010 | Verse
I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain in the song and in this life. Burning passions fired for Creator a rain not quenching but flooding a distant longing and its approaching rumble has engulfed me A burning man quenched.
by Garris Elkins | Oct 30, 2010 | Verse
We all like flowers bloom and unfold. From bud to blossom, new to full, from young to old. The summit of a life cycle no one knows the height, the apex of life’s arc from fullness to withered petal. But life is, from beginning to end, from tender shoot to...
