Everlasting Beauty

Photo taken by Jane Palma using Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime (Rear Cam, Auto)

If life ends in iniquity,

then I'm just as good as a flower that withered and lost its beauty.

But somehow, purposely,

You came and rescued me.

By true repentance You set me free,

By Your grace and love You covered me,

And gave me a life of victory.

What is life without You, Oh Lord?

That, I don't want to see.

For my life is Yours, forever it will be,

Forever to behold an everlasting beauty.

- Jane Palma | 4.20.15

Stars and Dreams

Stars and Dreams

The distant dreams of yesterday are like the stars scattered in space. Although they both seem so far from us, to reach them is the one thing we'd always want, for their light springs up hope to our very lives.

But the stars are just stars. No matter how bright they shine, the closest they can be is to what only our eyes can see, never to touch them nor reach them.

Dreams, on the contrary, are not just dreams. We don't just see them, we reach them; we don't just hope for them, we embrace them--because they're meant to happen to us, at one point in our lives, and have our own once upon a time.
                                                                                 j.p.

Stars and Dreams by Jane Palma | 01.29.2015

A New Beginning

A New Beginning

A new door opened for you to come in

A new page emptied with spaces to fill in

A new year marked for another beginning

Given by the One who is unchanging

                                j.p.

Love Is The Difference

Our differences --
that's the wall that divides us.
Our love though, with highest hopes,
be the strongest weapon
to break down the wall
that conceals us from each other.

Love, let it collapse.

Longing

This sadness, creeping inside of me --
where is this coming from?
Tears from nowhere --
drop by drop,
little by little --
stream down my face.
Where is this coming from?

Oh, I guess
I'm longing.
My heart is longing.
I am in need.
I need
the proof of your love.

Written: November 29, 2014

Pangarap

Pangarap

Nagsimula ang lahat sa isang pangarap

Pangarap na ang mukha'y binalutan ng hirap

Ang hirap ay pagsubok na ang tanging sarap

Ay ang tagumpay na dulot ng yaring pagsisikap

Ang pangarap ang siyang gumising sa bawat nahihimbing

'Di natinag, sa kabila ng buhay na mailap ang isang kusing

Ang pangarap na dati'y isa lamang na hiling

Ngayo'y kasing liwanag na ng bituing nagniningning.

Hindi pa tapos ang dilim, ngunit ito na'y paparating.

Ika-25 ng Nobyembre, 2014: Sa pagmumuni-muni ko sa masikip na tren nabuo ang tulang ito.

The Collision

#Hugot. I made this poem out of my devotion on Ezekiel 37. This is my first I think. I will always remember how God brought me to life. The power of sin and death in my life became as lifeless as I was before because of the power of the blood of Jesus that has redeemed me and made me anew. In Him, I have the breath of life!