Of Well-springs and Wonder

Well-spring of wonder

Merciful Morning

Soothes yester-heaviness

From troubled brow

Somewhere between

Dusk-darkness and dawning

God fills the hour

With Morning’s new Now

Just as the New Year

Melds o’er the departed

Merciful Morning

Melts night’s ebony

Light fills the ocean

Of onyx impression

Well-spring of wonder

In grace-symphony

See, heaven’s hand

He held Jordan’s waters

Doom and deliverance

Meet at death’s brink

See how He fills

Night’s hollow with morning

Kneel at His well-spring

Of mercy and drink

© Janet Martin

Over and over morning melts the night and Grace extends His arm.

Tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’  For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.  He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.” Joshua 4:22-24