The Winter Season

Each season is gifted with beauty of its own, the light, the fragrance, purpose beyond our understanding. And yet we find ourselves filled with anticipation for each change. The familiar touches something of the essence our souls with reflections of past seasons. Images resoundingly stir the heart with glimpses of another time; these images seem connected with the present for a grander purpose, illumining something beyond what we can now see.This morning brings freezing rain, to be followed by sleet and snow. I see the pine boughs drooping under the weight of the ice and anticipate what it will look like when daylight arrives. We often find ourselves drooping or bending under the weights common to man, but when I lifting eyes heavenward, light begins to shine through to guide uncertain footsteps. I know that it is not the situations I face, but the way I am enabled to respond to them that changes the color of the day. The pearls of light begin to glimmer with awareness.
The Light is there. We have but to look. I am thankful dear Lord.

Majesty Of Each Day

Before the breaking forth of each fresh dawn

The majestic glory of its coming was long ago drawn

Every morning arrives gift wrapped and new

Filled with promise and a palette of light in every hue.

Distinctively displaying heavenly origins of art

Splendor and glory created in God’s own heart.

We may anticipate and respond to radiance of the light

Shining through His creation, showering us with delight

In the silence of the night it seems the soul does not sleep

It is listening, waiting to awaken us with divine appointments to keep.

A stirring in my inner being brings awareness of calming peace and rest

Gradually, steadily becoming the hope of being eternally blessed

The reverie is ended; I am awakened with an introit of song

My reflections are upon our merciful Lord to Whom all things belong.

Such music becomes an awakening chorus through nature to praise

The Lord of all the earth, author and artist of pathways and days.

The chorus becomes a prelude of welcome for dawn’s streaming light

Each day arrives with unique majesty, empowered with His ordering might.

Responding to the awakening call to slowly open my eyes

Then gasp in response to beauty proclaiming His glory across heavenly skies.

His Spirit dwells within me; He responds to my reaction of jubilant joy

Obedience unfolds witness to more of the fullness of His glory.

The undeniable majesty of Gods incomprehensible light

Reveals many beautiful facets, enrapturing my soul to take flight

Each day has abundant glory to inspire eyes of the heart to sing

Assurance of His presence forever, He is our Heavenly Lord and King.

An ever-moving canvas is providenced by clouds changing at His command

Brightly moving patterns of light flow from on high, carried on wings of the wind

Openings as windows of heaven remind me it is on God all things depend

Colors all glorious reveal the previousness of God to supply

Evidence of His faithfulness made known to my seeking cry.

God’s melody imprinted on my soul, stirs me with harmony in worship to extol.

An eternal melody, a pure melody, beginning within God’s heavenly throne

Carried by the breath of His Spirit as if a timeless wind has blown

Each day has been established in majesty as a variation on a theme

A new song emerges each day, yet the changeless theme reigns supreme.

All things flow from the powerful and righteous character of God’s name

Even though the world’s views are ever changing, His truth remains the same.

Each sunrise arrives at its perfectly ordained time

One with pomp and circumstance, another in quiet elegance sublime

Another morning may arrive cloaked in a rumbling storm

Flashes of lightening accompany a thunderous march with resounding form.

Oh to be ever watchful in filling my hunger for wisdom to impart

Ancient words ring true with what He has made known from the start. IMP 6/11/10