Finding True Beauty

 Rain rules and cuts short outdoor chores well-planned.

(Praying and planting seem to go hand in Hand)

We entrust seed's bounty to the Giver and

ask strength and wisdom for toil's 'meanwhile-demand'

No matter what we hold,

Every good and perfect gift is from above, 

coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, 

who does not change like shifting shadows.

James 1:17

Hold lightly what God grants thee

Like trees and birds and flow’rs

Everything is His bounty

And never really ours

Each life, a gift from heaven

Its strife, the price of sin

Its hope, Lord of creation

Its light, the love of Him

Hold lightly what God grants thee

And trust His full control

Then peace will be the beauty

That satisfies thy soul

© Janet Martin