Prayerfully Poetic

A Collection of Prayerful Poems by Tim McGee

New Poems

  • New Year’s True Offering

    We clink our glasses at midnightas if the calendar itself were magic,counting down like astronautsready to launch into better versionsof ourselves. We make lists as long as confetti trails.Eat cleaner. Try harder. Wake earlier.Run farther. Fail slower.Become, somehow, dazzling. The gyms glow with January pilgrimsseeking salvation on treadmills,while planners fill with bold intentionswritten in heroic… Read more

  • The Word Became Flesh

    Before time had a measure,the Word moved silentlythrough shadow and stillness.Life stirred as a deep, luminous pulsethat called existence itself into being.In that life, the light shinesto reveal the sacred contour of all things,the hidden heartbeat of the world.And the Word became flesh.We saw His gloryfilled with grace and truth. -Inspired by John 1:1-15 Read more

  • The Season After the Dawn

    Christmas beginswhen the Word breathes among usand keeps unfoldinglike a slow-rising sunacross the landscape of our longing. This is the seasonwhen God grows in quiet placeswhen the manger whispersits fragile gloryinto the corners of our doubt. Shepherds return changed,Mary holds mysteries like dewand the Child is revealedfrom cradle to Jordanwhere water recognizes its Maker. Between… Read more

  • Among us

    The Word whispers into flesha quiet dawn in the shadow of the world Light bends toward the hiddenstirring the places that fear cannot touch Grace flows without measurea river carrying the weight of all longing Truth leans closebreathing into the hollow spacesmaking the unseen glow He is here,and in His presenceeverything that tremblesremembers home -Inspired… Read more

  • Midnight

    O Holy Child,born in the quiet of night,even now your life carries sorrow and light. A star guides the seekers,gifts speak of kingship, divinity, and the grave.Simeon lifts you and whispers of the sword,yet your tiny hands hold triumph yet to come. O Christ, born to suffer, born to rise,make our hearts ready to see… Read more

  • The Last Days of Advent

    The candles have spoken their namesand burned themselves down to quiet truths.Hope learned to endure,Joy softened into stillness,Peace found room in the ache,Love bent low and stayed. Now the wreath holds its breath. We have walked the long waythrough promise and patience,through prayers that did not hurry God.The road narrows here.Words thin.Attention sharpens. Above us,… Read more

  • Advent Prayer

    -Inspired by Revelation 22:20 Come, Lord Jesusinto the waiting silence of my heart.Let hope take root where weariness has grown,and faith find light where shadows linger. Teach me to watch, not with anxious eyes,but with a soul made still in trust.You have come once in humility,and You will come again in glory,but even now, come… Read more

  • A Thanksgiving Prayer

    I pray for those who gather in joy,their tables bright with laughter,their hearts warmed by familiar voices,their gratitude rising like incensein the quiet places of the soul. I pray for those who do not find joyin gathering,whose memories sit heavy on the table,whose hopes feel threadbare,whose hearts carry storiesthat others do not see.May grace meet… Read more

  • Fill Me From Within

    Inspired by Ephesians 3:16–19 Lord, I come with empty hands,Weary heart and shifting sands.Not to strive or prove I’m good,But to be shaped, as only You could. Strengthen me deep in my soul,Where brokenness hides, where I’ve lost control.Let Your Spirit breathe in the quiet place,And flood my doubt with steady grace. Dwell in my… Read more

  • The Arc of Freedom

    There is no condemnation.Not for me,not anymore.The chains have fallen,the verdict stands.Christ has borne it all. The Spirit breathes in me now,not the weight of law,but the wind of life.What the flesh could not carry,grace has lifted.What sin had brokenand love takes its place. I am no longer debtorto the old ways of death.I am… Read more