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Lynda’s Journal ~ Poem – Morning Hour –
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Let\u2019s celebrate our Creator in February.<\/p>\n

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When my Mom passed through the Veil in March 2007,\u00a0 I inherited her most precious possession\u00a0 – her Bible.<\/h4>\n

Esther McKinney’s\u00a0 Bible is the King James Version, bound in deep red leather.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Bible reading and prayer for others were the two most important things of each new day, for Mom.<\/h4>\n

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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\u00a0 pray for\u00a0 others in need of God’s help.\u00a0 Regardless of anything else going on in the house or\u00a0 my father, or the the family, she put God first early in the mornings.<\/h4>\n

When\u00a0 I\u00a0 looked through her precious book, I discovered\u00a0 little hand-written notes on paper that she saved.\u00a0 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.<\/h4>\n

Every day, for me, is a celebration as I open Mom’s\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/h4>\n

My eyesight is quite low – I have profound sight loss.\u00a0 I am able to use a Merlin\u00a0 CCTV that magnifies\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Two walls in this room have windows that face east, and south so the room is lighted naturally throughout the day.<\/h4>\n

In my experience, something happens every time\u00a0 I begin to read Mom’s Bible.\u00a0 This miraculous book begins teaching me something I need to know.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The living Word of God. can be discovered every time the Bible is read.<\/h4>\n

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What can the Bible do for YOU_Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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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\u00a0 future, is in this book. Mom’s Bible is where I encounter God every day.\u00a0 Lynda McKinney Lambert, Author of\u00a0 Each Day Holds Some Small Joy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Poem:\u00a0 Morning Hour<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

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Morning Hour<\/em><\/p>\n

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A nippy breeze<\/p>\n

wrapped around my bare feet<\/p>\n

soft grey cashmere clouds<\/p>\n

in the early morning hour.<\/p>\n

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My own reflection<\/p>\n

slowly materialized-<\/p>\n

exposed, naked<\/p>\n

on a clear icy glass<\/p>\n

surface.<\/p>\n

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Outside frozen windowpane<\/p>\n

an icicle boundary<\/p>\n

surrounded my view<\/p>\n

of the aging Douglas Fir.<\/p>\n

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I turned for a closer look<\/p>\n

through the silent porthole.<\/p>\n

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Quick movements<\/p>\n

in the shadow revealed<\/p>\n

one tiny ruffled sparrow<\/p>\n

a solo performer<\/p>\n

hunkered down, deep,<\/p>\n

on snow-clogged branches.<\/p>\n

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Inside, this room is a blizzard-<\/p>\n

a scattering of words lingered-<\/p>\n

waiting to be gathered onto a page<\/p>\n

in a winter bouquet-written<\/p>\n

in spite of the bitter cold.<\/p>\n

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It feels like we have been here<\/p>\n

for a thousand years<\/p>\n

in the early morning hour.<\/p>\n

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Lambert, Lynda McKinney.\u00a0 first snow<\/em><\/strong>_Finishing Line Press, 2020. (Page 21)<\/p>\n

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Do you know:<\/p>\n

I have SIX published books:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Each Day Hold Some Small\u00a0 Joy : Poems, DLD Books, 2024
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Songs for the Pilgrimage, <\/em>DLD Books, 2021.<\/p>\n

first snow, Finishing Line Press, 2020. \u2013See it here!<\/a><\/p>\n

Star Signs: New & Selected Poems<\/em>, DLD Books,\u00a0 2019.<\/p>\n

Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems, <\/em>DLD Books,\u00a0 2017.<\/p>\n

Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage, <\/em>Kota Press, 2003. (Out of print)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a9<\/a>Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2025.<\/p>\n

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first snow <\/a>,<\/em> a chapbook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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