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Thursday, May 9, 2024

Redemption's Second Best Hue...

Happy Ascension Day!

Acts 1:9-11
After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, 
and a cloud hid Him from their sight. 
10They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, 
when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
 11“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky?
 This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, 
will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.”

Isa.55:12
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; 
the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, 
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

Celebrating green, among other colors in today's post;
sharing a few shots from an excursion yesterday, with a friend and
kindred spirit, we oohed and aahed and squealed and sighed to our heart's content
at details we didn't need to explain...














Redemption’s flood is red that flowed/flows for all at Calvary
So that we who are/were dead in sin might live eternally
For, all who repent and believe by faith have been made whole
The grace of God through Christ achieves hope’s anchor for the soul

But, for the earth reborn in spring, redemption’s flood is green
A death-defying deluge thundering from founts unseen
A tidal wave of emerald as hallelujahs peal
Through fields and woodlands heralding their Orchestrator’s zeal

Trees clap their hands, grass-cushioned grandstands beckon everyone
The river’s wrinkled sashes twinkle silver in the sun
Tulips in bold profusion bloom, as bud after bud pops
On verdant, velvet banks are strewn pools of forget-me-nots

Fair nature celebrates redemption’s second-best hue; green
Regaling trees with melodies where bare branches had been
Unfettering a plush, lush splurge, surging from east to west
While rabbit hops from bush to bush, a nibble-happy guest/pest

© Janet Martin












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