Prayerfully Poetic

A Collection of Prayerful Poems by Tim McGee

New Poems

  • Love over Conquest

    No blade He drew, no war He won,yet darkness trembled at the Son.He bore no flag, led no parade,but wore a crown the thorns had made. While kings demand and tyrants strive,His mercy made the dead alive.Love, not conquest, broke the night.The Cross, not sword, became His might. Read more

  • I went out this morningwith no great purposeother than letting the warm aircarry me where it pleased. The sun, like a kind hand,rested on the shoulders of the field.Every blade of grassseemed to whisper thank you. I stopped where the wildflowershad flung themselves open,their bright faces turned upward,as if they, too, had been astonishedby such Read more

  • Arms stretched on the treemercy flows from every woundpure, unearned, and wideeven death bows to His lovestill He calls me by my name Read more

  • Thy Kingdom Come

    Let Your Kingdom rise       in the hearts that choose compassion       in the hands that offer bread       in the eyes that see another’s pain       and stay Let it shine       in the quiet labor of love       in the songs sung softly       when no one hears but You       in the courage to speak peace       when silence feels safer Read more

  • Who is this Jesus?

    He isbreath of life,the stillness in which the voice of Godspoke light into being.He walked in Eden’s hush,not as echo or wind,but as Presence. He isthe fire that burned without consuming,the whisper Moses could not name.He etched commandments into stone,and in the fullness of timeoffered His hands to be pierced by them. He isthe thunder Read more

  • The Theotokos

    She did not ascendthrough effort or meritHeaven bent lowinto the stillness of her yes No firenor trumpetbut in the hush between breathsthe Divine knockedat the door of her being And sheunveiled and tremblingbecame the gatethrough which the Word took breath In hereternity curled the uncontainableinto the contours of timebecame clothed in her fleshand waitedto be Read more

  • Come Holy Spirit

    Come, Breath of God, unseen but nearWhisper Your wind through the chambers of fearKindle the flame where the embers lie lowBreak through the shadows and teach me to glow Spirit of truth, unshackle my mindLoosen the lies I’ve too long let bindFlood every thought with the fire of graceTill wisdom takes root in Your dwelling Read more

  • Do Not Be Silent

    When the night is thick with fearand the voices around memock the truth I hold dearI push through the world’s noiseand listento the whisper of Godin my soul “Do not be afraid”He saysnot because there is no dangerbut because He is with mein the middle of it “Keep on speaking”even if my words trembleeven if Read more

  • When I Lift Your Name

    I do not hold the cure,nor the answer,nor the strength to mend what’s broken,but I know the One who does. In silence, then,deeper than my knowing,I lift your name to Godlike a fragile flame in trembling hands,to the altar of mercy. Not to fix,but to carry.Not to control,but to surrender. In this offering,somehow,your pain becomes Read more

  • The Word Made Flesh

    The Word was not a soundbut the stillness before soundnot speechbut the meaning that gives speech weightnot thoughtbut the source from which all thoughts emergeHe was before breathand yet He breathed Fleshnot symbol nor shadowbut matter which bruisescells that hungerbones that breakHe entered the ribcage of creationand let His heart beat there He did not Read more