Songs of May and Morn

It was a weekend of celebrating...

 Grandson's 1st birthday,

 

mothers/motherhood,

and May/gardening...

(helping grandpa plant potatoes)

Grand-sonny preferred planting potatoes to the tedium of planting peas...

When I handed him a little pail of pea seeds he proceeded to pour them into the

furrow rather than place them one by one,

 until gramma showed them how to space the seeds😅

I can't wait for them to begin witnessing the miracle from seed to fruit!

On this note, off we go on a new week rife with life's wonders and woes!

An orchestra of colour plays a melody reborn

To set both earth and heart ablaze with songs of May and morn

The author of all things ignites from minstrels great and small

A hymn of gladness, and invites us to join, one and all

To praise He who is faithful, absolute and wonderful

And eternally able to do the impossible

A symphony of splendor spills from He who does no wrong

It rolls across valleys and hills like a redemption song

To clothe the field with flowers and the tree with leafy sheen

To transform barren bowers with a thousand shades of green

And to remind the creature, awed at what God's love restores

To trust creation’s Teacher who sustains hope’s reservoirs

An invitation steals the show with holy thundering

A celebration peals ‘hello’ and beckons us to sing

In spite of cares we shoulder and the sorrows of this world

God cheers the awed beholder with His handiwork unfurled

And wakes a purer, meeker praise as melodies reborn

Once more set earth and hearts ablaze with songs of May and morn

© Janet Martin

Sometimes my morning worship/prayer/quiet time 

seems like a bittersweet duel between

groaning grief for what feels like 'impossible' prayers

and dumbfounded joy for His awesome Word and handiwork.

...a duel between sorrowful recognition/reconciliation 

of suffering the consequence of a sinful action

and awe for God's abiding faithfulness, kindness, forgiveness, love and grace

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Isa.26:3

You will keep him in perfect peace,
Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.

A few recent devotions from My Utmost for His Highest