All Posts By

louisasaylor

  • Failure

    Obedience and Our Utter Failure

    Obedience As an Act of Love The first lesson in obedience is taught in the home. Therefore, distorted views of obedience can produce a skewed understanding of the true obedience the Lord requires in…

    October 5, 2019
  • Repentance

    Transformational Slave Ships

    I went adrift on a slave ship Only a few years ago, Taken captive by the worst of task masters He never kind, only hatred and injustice he would show. I became a vessel…

    October 2, 2019
  • Grief

    Emptiness Series Pt. 1

    Empty womb, empty rooms, Empty nest, Empty chest, Empty moments, empty closeness, Empty. All this emptiness I tried to fill. All this emptiness I tried to kill. All this emptiness I tried to will…

    October 1, 2019
  • Lament Poetry

    YHWH

    Chemical responses were awakened in my body and brain. Responses I didn’t know wanted to wake up To the sound of the alarm the Holy Spirit sounded, What became a distortion of True love.…

    September 16, 2019
  • Grief

    Grief Is

    Grief is The house guest that has worn out their welcome. It is The nagging wife who needs your attention and won’t stop until she                   …

    September 13, 2019
  • Grace in the Mundane

    Gospel Filled Donuts

    He waltzed into my classroom with eyes beaming with excitement and joy. In his hands was a white box with “Mrs. Saylor and Mrs. Falk, Love Bailey” written in perfectly feminine handwriting on the…

    September 12, 2019
  • Mental Health Poetry

    Mental Health

    The circular thoughts with no end in sight, No resolutions to be made, Just a continuous fight No winner, just more blows to my mind. Circular thoughts, words, questions, Knots in my mind Out…

    September 11, 2019
  • Womanhood

    Ezer

    Like blinking eyes, the sun’s rays flashed through the Spanish moss dangling from the oak trees. The sky began its progressive filter into golden hour, while the pristine rural setting of an old Baptist…

    September 6, 2019
  • Repentance

    Peroxide

    The sting of peroxide brought a burning to my flesh that I had never known before, but stuck with me throughout my childhood. I was five.  I had been waiting for a birthday card…

    September 2, 2019