Morning's Color-world

Across celestial croft

Soft-kissed, night’s mural fades

As newborn day persuades

In Origins aloft

From Master-hands unfurled

A virgin bloom uncurled

To fill the sweep of hill and deep

With morning’s color-world

Have any heard or seen

Time stirred like this before?

Heaven unbars a door

Stars dim within the sheen

Of opportunity

And all that waits to be

As grace anoints what it appoints

To Mercy’s filigree

The wonder of the Lord

Is not a hidden spring

But touches everything

That man cannot afford

Freely His Hand bestows

The tincture to a rose

That fills the air with Welcome where

Morning’s color-world glows

© Janet Martin

Can you check the weather? asked my son before going to work.
Well, I replied, according to the red sky this morning it will rain today.
Aw, that doesn't mean anything, he said, hoping they will harvest grain today...
Well, according to Matthew 16 it does, and I hunted up this passage,

The Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Jesus, they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven. But He replied to them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.' "And in the morning, 'There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times?…

We checked the local forecast. It predicts a 70% chance of thunderstorms today.