Friday, October 30, 2009

A Season of Change



Red-gold beauties; a tree on fire.
God speaks as though to Moses: "See me, I am."
I stand in dumb silence;
Tears watering my cheeks I kick off my clogs,
For here is sacred ground.

"I will change you like this tree"
He whispers in my soul's ear.
"For as there is a season to grow,
So there is one to prune,
And reap, and harvest, and lie fallow."

"Now is the season to grow,"
Said the Spirit-Voice inside my head.
"Yet the old leaf must fall to make room for the new.
And some of your leaves, while beauties,
Do not have eternal value."

I cast doubting eyes to the ground;
Resting on a leaf of beauty,
Perfect in size and colour, yet left to rot.
"You would prefer it rot on the branch?" asks the Voice.
"No," I reply. "Make way for the new leaf."


8 comments:

  1. Beautiful!! I love it....I'm glad that SITS sent me to say hi!

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  2. Is this original? It's marvelous!

    *stopping in from SITS*

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  3. Love this post! And your blog! Stopping by from SITS! I am a Christian, too so I am always happy to see other Christian bloggers. What a great post (did you write that?). I can relate on a lot of levels! And I love your layout! I have the same one for my 2nd blog (which I am taking a break from, but will go back to after the current one).

    Hope to keep reading here! :)

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  4. Yay! I'm so glad you are spreading the word! Let's get the whole world on the email blogger !

    I love your photos here!

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  5. BEAUTIFUL, I ALWAYS SAY I NEED A BURNING BUSH GOD, AND YOU GOT ONE. THANKS FOR SHARING AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

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