Lynda’s Journal ~ Poem – Morning Hour –

Let’s celebrate our Creator in February.

 

When my Mom passed through the Veil in March 2007,  I inherited her most precious possession  – her Bible.

Esther McKinney’s  Bible is the King James Version, bound in deep red leather.  This is the one she carried to church. It’s the book that was always on her kitchen table, and the book she read every morning at the beginning of her day. At 9 a.m. each day, she received a phone call. It was the Prayer Line coordinator calling to give her the list of people to pray for that day.  Bible reading and prayer for others were the two most important things of each new day, for Mom.

I was blessed beyond measure to grow up in a home where my Mother taught us by her example, to honor God and read his Word each day. We four children also understood the daily need to  pray for  others in need of God’s help.  Regardless of anything else going on in the house or  my father, or the the family, she put God first early in the mornings.

When  I  looked through her precious book, I discovered  little hand-written notes on paper that she saved.  In one, she was calculating how long ago my Father died. A flyer in this Bible told me the last day she was able to go to church. It was at Thanksgiving, for the bulletin from that day was in her treasured Bible.

Every day, for me, is a celebration as I open Mom’s  Bible and begin to read. I like to read out loud, in my library. This room is where my collection of poetry and art books are on shelves. Recently, I purchased a beautiful long table where I can sit and study.  I placed this table along one wall beneath a large abstract painting that I love. Art fills every wall in my home, and it’s like I am surrounded by my best friends day and night. Each artwork is original, and most created by people I knew personally.

My eyesight is quite low – I have profound sight loss.  I am able to use a Merlin  CCTV that magnifies  the text very large so I can read documents, letters, or books. The room has a wonderful Bose sound system, so I can listen to music, too.  Two walls in this room have windows that face east, and south so the room is lighted naturally throughout the day.

In my experience, something happens every time  I begin to read Mom’s Bible.  This miraculous book begins teaching me something I need to know.  New discoveries await me, and a sense of peace and love flood the atmosphere in that room. The Bible actually speaks to us once we begin reading it.  The living Word of God. can be discovered every time the Bible is read.

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I can assure you that God will meet you there on the pages of The Bible. Everything we need to know for the present day or for the  future, is in this book. Mom’s Bible is where I encounter God every day.  Lynda McKinney Lambert, Author of  Each Day Holds Some Small Joy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Poem:  Morning Hour

 

Morning Hour

 

A nippy breeze

wrapped around my bare feet

soft grey cashmere clouds

in the early morning hour.

 

My own reflection

slowly materialized-

exposed, naked

on a clear icy glass

surface.

 

Outside frozen windowpane

an icicle boundary

surrounded my view

of the aging Douglas Fir.

 

I turned for a closer look

through the silent porthole.

 

Quick movements

in the shadow revealed

one tiny ruffled sparrow

a solo performer

hunkered down, deep,

on snow-clogged branches.

 

Inside, this room is a blizzard-

a scattering of words lingered-

waiting to be gathered onto a page

in a winter bouquet-written

in spite of the bitter cold.

 

It feels like we have been here

for a thousand years

in the early morning hour.

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Published:

Lambert, Lynda McKinney.  first snow_Finishing Line Press, 2020. (Page 21)

 

Do you know:

I have SIX published books:

Each Day Hold Some Small  Joy : Poems, DLD Books, 2024

Songs for the Pilgrimage, DLD Books, 2021.

first snow, Finishing Line Press, 2020. –See it here!

Star Signs: New & Selected Poems, DLD Books,  2019.

Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems, DLD Books,  2017.

Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage, Kota Press, 2003. (Out of print)

©Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2025.

Published:

first snow , a chapbook.

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