Original Works
Discover Poems by Stan Fleming
A collection of heartfelt poetry created with the desire to have a deeper relationship with the Lord. Dive into poems that reflect Stan’s journey to know God more.
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New Heart
I was thinking this week of the many, many times I felt a tug on my heart – to pause in my haste, to divert from a path I was on, or to step out and do something – and yet I forged forward with my own thinking and purposes. I resisted or ignored that…
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Moments
I think each of us find ourselves thinking forward to what is yet to come and pondering what that might entail. Then, the longer we focus on the future and what’s coming next, we open ourselves up for the anxiety that naturally comes. When I find myself doing that, I’m quickly drawn back to focusing…
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Doubts
Do you experience doubt in your faith? For me, the longer things take, the more dire things get, the more isolated I feel, then the doubts take root. Doubt can at times paralyze me, holding me back from doing those things I know the Lord wants me to do. I’m so thankful that I’m not…
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Reflection
Any time of transition is a great opportunity to reflect on the past, assess the current, and look forward with expectation and excitement. Our focus should be on recognizing God’s presence in those past and present moments and committing to seeking and finding Him even more often in the moments ahead. I think that focus…
The Creative Process
Each poem starts with an inspiration – could be a photo that triggers a thought, a thought that then matches to a photo, or a yearning from Scripture that then results in the pursuit of a photo that matches with it. Almost all result in deeper discovery about the precept of faith that emerges from the photo or thought.
Many of the core elements of faith end up in multiple inspirations and thus multiple poems as a result.
All of the poems are drafted and then set aside, and when I return to them, the inspiration from the beginning is either affirmed and the poem then finalized, or I’ll make significant edits based on where the Spirit leads me in that revisit.
I get great joy in the creation process, and I smile when I feel like the poem captures the thought put on my heart in the exact way I felt inspired with it.
That’s not always the case, but I love it when it happens that way!