I open my heart when I read the writings of Kind David, and I hear his heart as I focus on his words. I felt like I was interviewing him this morning as I read his poem known as Psalm 1. King David’s poetry inspired me to write this poem:

A Blessed Life (Psalm 1)

Spirit-prompted poetry
Can point us to the tree
In the center of God’s Garden
And call us to make
God’s Tree of Life
The central focus
Of our life.

The Tree of the Knowledge
Of Good and Evil
Tries to distract
Us from the abstract–
God’s invisible reality
And present-day presence–
And to attract
Us to self-reliance.

If you choose to go
Only by what you think
That you know,
The wind of proud desires
Will blow you away
From the Spirit-led life
That God inspires!

Sit at the feet of Jesus
To partake of
His streams of water.
Stand with the Tree of Life
So your leaf won’t wither
And leave you full of strife.
Walk as led by God’s Spirit
So you can prosper
In His will.