A New Year

A New Year Living Broken Again BLOG By Susan Vaughan Shumake 12/30/2022 ***** A New Year Psalm 91:13-16 “Relent, O Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants. Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Make us glad […]

When Darkness Fell Living Broken Again BLOG By Susan Vaughan Shumake 12/28/2022 When Darkness Fell When darkness fell, I fell too. I fell into the darkness, into discouragement, into despair. I lost sight of the light. I lost sight of my hope. I lost sight of the fact of the miracle that the cancer was […]

The Cost of Beauty Living Broken Again BLOG by Susan Vaughan Shumake 12/14/2022 ***** A way with words A way with swords The battle rages within two worlds Bearing the burden Trapped Living Broken There’s nothing spoken to help me win Beneath the ashes There’s only thrashes Glory shines shadowed within your plan Beauty beneath […]

Living Lame Living Broken Again BLOG By Susan Vaughan Shumake 12/03/2022 ***** Living lame Still in pain With a cane Like Little James Sent to heal Who will believe it? Who will receive it? When I can barely go? When I am way too slow? When I am crushed with pain? When I am living […]

When I Don’t See Living Broken Again BLOG By Susan Vaughan Shumake 12/02/2022 ***** You are the lifter of my head When I let sorrow’s heartaches get the best of me You are the lasting light that lifts me upward to see You are the loving grace that restores and sets me free When I […]

Broken Lights Living Broken Again BLOG By Susan Vaughan Shumake 11/1/2022 ***** Shining for your Glory Broken along the way Screaming here without a Voice Still nothing there to say Abandoned on the journey I’ve nothing left to give Struggling to stand alone My strength is all to live Left without the courage I’ve nowhere […]

Just Another Day Living Broken Again BLOG By Susan Vaughan Shumaake 10/14/22 Sorrow upon Sorrow Grief upon Grief When will I be beyond this trial When will I find relief Drifting in Your purpose Cut within this place Screaming in my suffering Broken in Your grace Days of disappointment Number into years Looking to my […]

Racing Time Living Broken Again BLOG By Susan Vaughan Shumake 10/10/2022 ***** So many Battles have been fought and Won So many years have now come and gone Still this ‘Ole girl is unable to Run Feel like I’m Racing Time So many others passing me by Gaining the prize before I can fly Losing […]

Daughter of the Dance Living Broken Again BLOG By Susan Vaughan Shumake August 30, 2022 ***** Daughter of the Dance Wings crushed at first chance Body Broken and frail Trapped beneath your nails Daughter of the Dance A year gone at a glance My heart too broken to stand Worship is still what I am […]

Living in the Valley of Disappointment Living Broken Again BLOG By Susan Vaughan Shumake August 29, 2022 ***** “it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.” Living in the Valley of Disappointment Waking every day within the Deep Grieving all the loss of dissolution Sorrow fills this Daughter that You keep. […]