Songs of May and Morn
It was a weekend of celebrating... Grandson's 1st birthday,
mothers/motherhood,
and May/gardening...(helping grandpa plant potatoes)
Grand-sonny preferred planting potatoes to the tedium of planting peas...When I handed him a little pail of pea seeds he proceeded to pour them into thefurrow rather than place them one by one, until gramma showed them how to space the seeds😅
I can't wait for them to begin witnessing the miracle from seed to fruit!
On this note, off we go on a new week rife with life's wonders and woes!
An orchestra of colour plays a melody rebornTo set both earth and heart ablaze with songs of May and mornThe author of all things ignites from minstrels great and smallA hymn of gladness, and invites us to join, one and allTo praise He who is faithful, absolute and wonderfulAnd eternally able to do the impossible
A symphony of splendor spills from He who does no wrongIt rolls across valleys and hills like a redemption songTo clothe the field with flowers and the tree with leafy sheenTo transform barren bowers with a thousand shades of greenAnd to remind the creature, awed at what God's love restoresTo trust creation’s Teacher who sustains hope’s reservoirs
An invitation steals the show with holy thunderingA celebration peals ‘hello’ and beckons us to singIn spite of cares we shoulder and the sorrows of this worldGod cheers the awed beholder with His handiwork unfurledAnd wakes a purer, meeker praise as melodies rebornOnce more set earth and hearts ablaze with songs of May and morn
© Janet Martin
Sometimes my morning worship/prayer/quiet time seems like a bittersweet duel betweengroaning grief for what feels like 'impossible' prayersand dumbfounded joy for His awesome Word and handiwork....a duel between sorrowful recognition/reconciliation of suffering the consequence of a sinful actionand awe for God's abiding faithfulness, kindness, forgiveness, love and grace
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Isa.26:3You will keep him in perfect peace,
Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.
A few recent devotions from My Utmost for His Highest