No Go with the Flow
©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Bella Huang on Unsplash
Sometimes I curl my toes
against the tide.
Immovable, I catch
a swell of pride
and ride it nowhere.
Only I hold sway.
No force of nature
spirits me away.
A pity that I’m stuck
in shifting sand,
somewhere between
cool water
and
dry land.
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“Not that I speak in respect of want, for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me.” – Philippians 4:11-13
“We may not be able to control the winds, but we can always adjust our sails.”
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Tags: acceptance, humility, life, pride, submission
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.