Trying to Make Sense of It All...

 These flowers are blooming beside the road.

Jesus said: "Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. Luke 12:27

The dandelion beams, quite unabashed

Beneath the sprawling arches of the oak

The spruce and pine retain their common sash

Midst the flamboyant flare of autumn’s cloak

Nature; canvas of quiet miracles

Expounds life lessons in meek, wordless truth

It illustrates in petal-parables

A message fitted for senior or youth

A paradigm of wisdom is revealed

As we consider lilies of the field

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We cannot spin the unknown on a wheel

And weave its filament to our thought

The threads we hold pass through a Higher Will

Though we may pull and strain against the knot

The human nature; it resists, rebels

A covetous and restless, striving throng

Whilst on the eve the song of sparrow swells

In praise to He who fills its mouth with song

We ought to raise our gifted threads to Him

Content to let His finger shape and trim

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The Artist paints; His master-piece appears

Gradually; not in one afternoon

The acorn sprouts; it does not count the years

Before it reaches to the low-flung moon

And we, well we seem prone to boast or fret

Not at all like the lily of the field

It simply blooms while quickly we forget

And turn again to folly’s temporal yield

Who can explain His reason or His rhyme?

The answer to so many things, is Time

© Janet Martin

I have one child who is certain God forgot to give him/her a ‘special gift/talent’. Our reassurances/reminders otherwise will not persuade, so I tried to remind this one that not all things/gifts are revealed to us immediately. Realizations and master-pieces take time…

Sometimes waiting is a great Refiner. Being content with who God created us to be; THAT in itself is a great gift!

...and sometimes one can't see the forest for the trees!:)