Prayerfully Poetic

A Collection of Prayerful Poems by Tim McGee

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  • I am Yours

    Not my will,for it falters with fearand bends toward comfort.But Yours,steady and burningwith holy love. Teach me to liveas You have spoken,not just in great moments,but in the quiet yesof morning surrender,in the unseen kindness,in the heavy lifting of grace. You have made menot for self-glory,but for Your delight,reflecting Your mercy,carrying Your peace,being a living Read more

  • The Abyss of Mercy

    There is an oceandeeper than sorrow,wider than the cry of a thousand aching hearts.It is Mercy,unfolding from the pierced side of Christ,spilling into the dust of our ruin. Faustina saw it:a torrent of Light,two rays like living breath,one of blood and one of water,justice and pardon,the wound and the healing,the cross and the crown. She Read more

  • Broken Crayons

    The snapped crayon,splintered in weary hands,no longer whole, no longer perfect—just a fragment of what once was. God gathers the pieces,pressing them against the canvas of eternity,where cracks do not limit color,but deepen its depth, its meaning, its grace. The jagged edges, the worn-down tips,the wax too melted to hold its shape.He does not discard, Read more

  • We watched Him die,the sky torn open,the earth groaning beneath the weight of sorrow.We stood, breathless,at the foot of the splintered tree,where mercy bled and hope seemed lost. We wept  (oh, how we wept)until the silence of the tombbecame the silence of our own hearts. But then,O morning of mornings!stone rolled away, light pouring in,and Read more

  • The stone was rolled but not by handsNor Roman might nor weeping friendBut by the weight of Glory’s breathThe crushing of death’s own end What fullness speaks from emptinessWhat voice resounds from vacant spaceYet here within this hollowed graveEternity unveils its face The linen folds no body’s weightYet every wound is sanctifiedThe marks remain but Read more

  • Not the thorn,twisted cruelly into brow,nor the lash,ripping skin from bone,nor the jeering mouths,spitting scorn at Love Incarnate. Not the timber’s weight,splitting the shoulders of Innocence,nor the hammer’s pounding,sealing wrists to splintered wood,nor the blood, thickening the earth,unrecognized by the ones it would ransom. The good is deeper and more powerful,buried beneath agony,seeded in sorrow. Read more

  • The Fourteenth Station, Jesus is laid in the Tomb The stone is rolled, and silence reigns,a hush of grief, a weight of pain.The hands that healed, the feet that walked,now still—no breath, no voice to talk. The ones who loved, who stood, who wept,press trembling hands where He once stepped.A mother’s touch, a mourner’s sigh,a Read more

  • The Thirteenth Station, Jesus is taken down from the Cross A Mother’s Shared Sacrifice The sky exhales its final grief,the earth is still, holding its breath.All is finished. His Mother, Mary, kneels beneath the weightof a silence too vast for words.She does not wail,her sorrow is deeper than sound,a sea of aching lovecradling the broken Read more

  • The Twelfth Station, Jesus Dies the Cross A Deathly Sacrifice The sky bruises, the earth quakes,as Love hangs suspendedbetween heaven and dust. Hands that shaped galaxies,now curled in agony,held fast by iron and our rebellion.Lips that called forth lightnow whisper a final word,“It is finished.” The sun averts its gaze,the temple veil shudders and tears,a Read more

  • The Eleventh Station, Jesus is Nailed to the Cross A Piercing Sacrifice The hammer slams down, the nails drive deep,flesh torn by iron, love bound to wood.The weight of mercy held in place,pierced hands stretched wide in silent gift. The earth recoils, the heavens weep,yet Love does not resist the nails.He could unmake the hands Read more