©2005 Susan Noyes Anderson

An apple for the teacher is
a custom tried and true,
a way of saying “thanks” for all
the good things teachers do.

©2009 Susan Noyes Anderson

image by Kundan Ramisetti on Unsplash

Oh tree, whose barren limb no comfort gives,
Whose nakedness no calming color brings,
cover in blossoms every soul that lives
and nest, in every heart, a bird that sings.

image by Karl Fredrickson on Unsplash

©1999 Susan Noyes Anderson, Awaken Your Spiritual Power, Karisma Press

If I accept His sacrifice divine,
Returning love for love as He has done;
If I forget myself and touch the one
Whose sorrows weigh as heavily as mine;

©1999 by Susan Noyes Anderson, Awaken Your Spiritual Power, Karisma Press

I consecrate my soul to thee,
who died for me on Calvary;
this life devoted to thy care,
who hung and bled and suffered there;

©1993 Susan Noyes Anderson, Star Light, Star Books, Inc.

Will our hearts ever know the love
That does not count the loss;
That bows itself beneath our sin
And suffers on the cross;

©1999 Susan Noyes Anderson, Awaken Your Spiritual Power, Karisma Press (poem only)

I thought I walked this earth alone,
beneath my burdens bowed,
until I found I could not bear
their weight and cried aloud.

©1997 Susan Noyes Anderson, At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope,
Deseret Book (poem only)

Sometimes, when I am quite alone and still,
The Spirit speaks and whispers words of truth:
That I am not the master of your youth
And was not called to bend you to my will.

©1999 Susan Noyes Anderson, Awaken Your Spiritual Power, Karisma Press

Image by Eugene Garin

A boat is life, a vessel in the gale
Tossed by the wind and driven through the night;
A hapless cutter, searching for the light
That used to dance and shimmer on a sail
Once bright and proud, bedraggled now, and pale.