Pray We Never Outgrow Wonder...

Oh, pray we never grow too old to wonder at the common world

Or marvel at the sundry ways that only nature can amaze

And, pray we never weary of God’s testaments beneath, above

Where eye and ear bears witness to the Handwork only He can do

The workmanship of One so great ought to confound and captivate

The brooding discontent of we who, born with growling bellies see

Full proof of He in every leaf; His mercy lent to seed and sheaf

Each like a wide-flung window to wonders that only God can do

The worries of this world can bind and blind the aptness of the mind

Where faithful through the wooing years the hand of Heaven commandeers

Dark bark that cradles in its womb the nucleus of bud and bloom

Ah, pray we never grow blind to the wonder of what God can do

© Janet Martin