A Universal Cheer/ 'Church'

 I have to admit, after a photo someone posted on FB 

because they saw this masterpiece doubled over a lake,

(not blocked off by buildings, trees and a sink full of greasy dishes)

I was bowled over momentarily with a green wave of envy...

 then immediately 'smacked' with rebuke 

by the remembrance of those sick, suffering and sorrowing!

p.s. why was there still a sink full of dishes at 9:00? 

because we lingered longer at supper

laughing over a freshly bathed, blonde-curled, pink, little 'piggy/aka grandson'

prancing about the house...

The wonder of creation is a universal cheer

A daily celebration midst mankind’s laughter and tear

God’s handiwork transfixes us; where sod and sky and sea

Makes worshipers of all who marvel at the poetry

Of dusk on water, bloom’s first color, heaven’s dark and light

Of moon on misty, musky summer’s mellow middle-night

Of season over season’s unequivocal allure

That helps make far more bearable the cares we must endure

Beneath a canopy where we glimpse Majesty of He

Who sets at large His Best (no charge) if we have eyes to see

So, in time’s quiet quick of it, let's pause a bit, full-awed

Amidst love’s fighting thick of it, by the artwork of God

© Janet Martin