Awesome or Awe's Sum

Beauty burgeons and brims, even in the rain

The vault of earth and heaven's hymns overflows with refrains  

The beauty of the heavens and the earth awakens awe

Where short-lived showcases of birth soon yield to nature’s law

Where, like the train of God’s robe, glory’s fringes spill and brim

To fill the temple of the globe with ‘Holy’ holy’s’ hymn

The beauty of creation is made plain for all to see

Four-season celebration of Divine Authority

Where we are granted glimpses of a Better Timeless Place

While masterpieces of God’s love astonish human race

Beauty and brokenness cohere in breath stealing display

A mosaic of smile and tear, of warm gold and cold gray

Where the bliss of beholding cannot thwart the fundament

Of farewell’s kiss enfolding what no sigh can circumvent

Where beauty’s bowers thunder with the evidence of He

Whose miracle in wonder is perfect humility

As we fix our gaze on Him rather than selfish aim

As earth and heavens coffers brim with glory to His name

The beauty we behold on earth on That Glad Day will dim

As our mortal death gives birth to an immortal hymn

The miracle of wonder’s perfected humility

The pure worship that thunders throughout all eternity

The beauty of creation is the whisper of yon cast

As stuttered exaltation finds love’s perfect words at last

As broken hearts are mended and as Eden is restored

The blood-washed soul ascended and forever with the Lord

© Janet Martin