All This And Heaven Too

Enjoying a Snowbound Sunday! 

Proverbs 3:19-20
The LORD founded the earth by wisdom 

and established the heavens by understanding. /

By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, 

and the clouds dripped with dew. (or snow??)

Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities,

His eternal power and divine nature, 

have been clearly seen, 

being understood from His workmanship, 

that men are without excuse.

Colossians 1:16
For in Him all things were created, 

things in heaven and on earth,

 visible and invisible, 

whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. 

things were created through Him and for Him.

Psalm 104:24
How many are Your works, O LORD! 

In wisdom You have made them all; 

the earth is full of Your creatures.

Jeremiah 10:12
The LORD made the earth by His power;

 He established the world by His wisdom 

and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Where every window frames a masterpiece by God unfurled...

And bids us find a cozy seat to marvel at the world...

Where every window frames a masterpiece by God unfurled

And bids us find a cozy seat to marvel at the world

Where the Creator fills the earth with galleries, snow-spun

And awestruck creature thrills in works of art second to none

Where every season brims with boundless beauty to behold

And humble hearts thunder with hymns as God's name is extolled

(Where we are all without excuse; God's qualities unfurled

In evidence unloosed since the creation of the world) Rom.1:18-20

Where to witness mankind's delight must bring God pleasure too

As we approach Faith Turned To Sight, when all will be made new

But, until then He grants a world of unplumbed majesty 

Gazillion autographs untwirled for everyone to see 

Where He maintains the matrix of four-season ebb and flow

 A collage of mosaics swirls blue sky, green grass, white snow 

Until it seems each season tries to boast the finest view

While, every heart a poet sighs, All this and Heaven too' 

Janet Martin

                            

Window-wonder...

When we got our dumping of snow last week

I asked my daughter who lives in the city rather than the countryside

what her street looks like and she sent me a few pictures from her window...

her window has kept her bedroom/slash office

from feeling like a jail-cell during lockdowns!

So let's celebrate windows today!

A few days ago when I visited my husband's mother I admired her geraniums plants,

reminding me of children with eager faces pressed to the window! (no photo though!)

My mother-in-law, frail with age spends each day in her chair by the window

watching the birds and activity of farm-life...

birds are busy but farm-life is rather more relaxed/quiet this time of year.

Last month I took a few pictures of my friend's windows...

 

Something about the sparseness of this window and surroundings was so enchanting...

an old rocking chair and a lamp on the sill in a room of an apartment 

they were about to get ready for her son to move into...

I also enjoy a Facebook group called Out My Window...

Our front Livingroom window...

back Livingroom window...

Laundry-room window...(below)

By the way, let me know if you live close to me

if you would like an aloe-vera plant.

the momma-plants keep having babies!!😅

one of our Kitchen windows...

A window frames the seasons as they slip across the land

The morning ushered in by He who is first in command

Where beauty of the earth and sky rouses ageless delight

To keen and satisfy desire’s deepest appetite

A window is the gateway for sunlight to fill the room

To keep indoors from feeling like a dungeon or a tomb

Where city street or countryside unfurls before our gaze

Where sills invite a flowerpot or freshly picked bouquets

...an altar where we pause to pray or sit to read a bit

A place to admire the way that birds twitter and flit

Where smudge and kiss of children's hands and faces warm the heart  

As mother smiles while others might be prone to miss the 'art'   

A window makes the poor man rich as thankfulness beholds

The landscape like a counterpane that Break of Day unfolds

As heavens overflow and frameworks that were black before

Are filled with pictures of the world outside our door once more

© Janet Martin

Where smudge and kiss of children's hands and faces warm the heart  

As mother (or gramma or childcare-giver) smiles 

while others might be prone to miss the 'art'   

(hard to believe that a month ago we had no snow!!)

Daniel 6:10

Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; 

and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, 

he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, 

and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

Jazz and snowy window...

I'm adding a few more photos taken a few hours after 

I first posted this...captured through the window

 while I chatted with my mother on the phone...

Morning at The Window or Windows...

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a morning at the windows...
watching as the miraculous dawning
expands across the sky

nudging deflated shadows
back, beneath trees and awnings
I watch a lone bird fly

across the tinted canvas
that only God can claim
the trees, stark pencil-drawings

etched in perfect stillness
isn't it a shame
that we miss these perfect mornings

as we stare at Windows
instead of through them...?

Janet~

Inspired by Violet Nesdoly's poem today.