While Man Argues...

 The earth is filled with your love, LORD; teach me your decrees. Ps.119:64

While man argues, bickers and boasts

And demands proof that God exists

He breathes on berm of breaking day

And heaps skylines with amethyst

While man fusses, frets and forgets

Bent on becoming, I AM keeps

The bud; it bursts in bloom and bread

Replenishing dust's still-life deeps

While man pushes, pulls, plans and pleads

And probes earth's pantheon for clues

God tends the universe and seeds

He deepens dusk with blue on blue

While man demands, dreams and derives

And depends, as he laughs-loves-lives

And while he takes and takes and takes

God gives and gives and gives…and gives

...while man argues, debates, denies

Demanding proof that God exists

He thunders in night's star-still skies

And breaks its dark with amethyst

© Janet Martin

We are blessed with much harvest being gathered in these beautiful, sunny days of September!

My mom was at the St. Jacob's Farmer's Market yesterday. She remarked how stand after stand was loaded with colorful goodness and my, how much we have to be thankful for!

Matt woke me when he got in last night...to tell me how amazing the sky looks.
 I told him this morning I really wish I would have gotten out of bed and marveled at the stars with him,
but after being up LATE the night/morning before to finish up some canning I was a sort of Zombie when I crawled out of that first deep sleep to try to understand what he was saying...
There is something intensely moving to stand beneath God's sky of lowered stars.