Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 29, 2025 • 6 Comments
On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, The emblem of suff’ring and shame. And I love that old cross where the dearest and best For a world of lost sinners was slain. So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross ‘Til my trophies at last I lay down. I will cling to the... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 15, 2025 • 9 Comments
Be My love, for no one else can end this yearning, This need that You and You alone create. Just fill My heart the way you’ve filled My dreams, The dreams that You inspire with every sweet desire. Be My love, and with Your kisses set Me burning. One kiss is all I need to... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • March 01, 2025 • 2 Comments
To dream the impossible dream. To fight the unbeatable foe. To bear with unbearable sorrow. To run where the brave dare not go. To right the un-rightable wrong. To love, pure and chaste from afar. To try when your arms are too weary to reach the unreachable star. This is my quest! To follow that... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • February 08, 2025 • 15 Comments
… He can turn the tides and calm the angry sea. He alone decides who writes a symphony. He lights every star that makes the darkness bright. He keeps watch all through each long and lonely night. He still finds the time to hear a child’s first prayer. Saint or sinner calls and always finds... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • January 25, 2025 • 25 Comments
For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise. For the beauty of each hour of the day and of the night, hill and vale, and tree... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 09, 2024 • 12 Comments
To everything turn, turn, turn, There is a season turn, turn, turn, And a time to every purpose under Heaven. A time to be born, a time to die. A time to plant, a time to reap. A time to kill, a time to heal. A time to laugh, a time to weep. To everything... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • November 02, 2024 • 12 Comments
If you’re going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. If you’re going to San Francisco, You’re gonna meet some gentle people there. For those who come to San Francisco, Summertime will be a love-in there. In the streets of San Francisco, Gentle people with flowers in their hair. All... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • July 20, 2024 • 49 Comments
… You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord, Who abide in His shadow for life, Say to the Lord, “My refuge, my rock in whom I trust!” … And He will raise you up on eagles’ wings, Bear you on the breath of dawn, Make you to shine like the sun! And hold... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 29, 2024 • 4 Comments
All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, ‘Twas God that made them all. Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings. He made their glowing colors, and made their tiny wings. The purple-headed mountains, the rivers running by. The sunset, and the morning that brightens... Read More
Posted by Roberta Grimes • June 22, 2024 • 8 Comments
It seems we’ve stood and talked like this before. We looked at each other in the same way then, but I can’t remember where or when. The clothes you’re wearing are the clothes you wore. The smile you are smiling you were smiling then, But I can’t remember where or when. Some things that happen... Read More
