Especially Summer's Morning

I began this poem yesterday morning, a masterpiece of gold and jade.

Among other colors!

This morning's mercy-masterpiece is autumnal in its air...gusty, rainy and quite cool!

'beauty blooms midst brokenness...'

The roma tomatoes have been devastated by blight. I am so sad!

...and these are but tomatoes! 

Imagine how God's heart breaks as He looks

upon a heart, blighted with sin He longs to forgive,

 in a sinner He longs to redeem,

with a life He longs to transform!

 

While this morning feels fall-ish it is still August so let's celebrate its loveliness!!

Or, even better, the Giver of its loveliness!

Soft ushered through untrodden deeps, fresh from God’s faithful care

Daylight dissolves the dark and sweeps night’s shadows from the air

To beckon us to the threshold where summer morning streams

Like a gold welcome mat unrolled beneath our hopes and dreams

Wildflowers, tossed like colored stars bedazzle summer’s world

God’s smile unstoppers welkin jars, His paintbrush dipped, then twirled

Unfurling masterpieces where we’ve made an awful mess

His goodness never ceases; beauty blooms midst brokenness

His majesty adorning everything that He has made

Especially summer’s morning; like glimpses of Eden played

Like glints of paradise, to rouse a hymn of gratitude

To He who fills the earth and skies with kind mercy renewed

Then come, let us adore Him; He whose glory fills our gaze

Behold, who can ignore Him while creation shouts His praise

Behooving us to do the same where summer morning spills

Like a love song, from He whose Name, sweet joy and peace instills

© Janet Martin

Ps.100

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.

2 Worship the Lord with gladness;

come before him with joyful songs.

3 Know that the Lord is God.

It is he who made us, and we are his[a];

we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving

and his courts with praise;

give thanks to him and praise his name.

5 For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;

his faithfulness continues through all generations.