This Roller-coaster Rubric

Record highs and record lows

This will be the way of dust

But in spite of ebb and flows

Fear seeks faith; in God we trust

Sequences of rise-and-fall

Roller-coaster rendezvous

Surge-receding madrigal

Hallelujahs rival blues  

Gold and gray perplexing skies

Hearts weep as we hold-let-go

Still we scan our sweep of sighs

Count our blessings, not our woe

Season-rubrics vexes sod

Step by step we test its dust

Clinging to a changeless Rod

As we go; in God we trust

© Janet Martin

This morning the news speaks of record lows in temperatures and record highs coming for gas prices…We look up; in God we trust.

A slow warm-up will not be a bad thing; without it they predict drastic flooding.