Two Red Bowls

      It's something of a family joke~two cheap bowls that keep showing up at family dinners filled with food, usually a tossed salad. It got me thinking.

Two red plastic bowls
Inexpensive, disposable
red plastic bowls
From the bottom shelf
at Wally World
Use 'em once, throw 'em away.



But they were bought
by one who washed them
and filled them
with all good things

To serve at family feasts
year after year after year.
Two red plastic bowls
Set apart, valuable
red plastic bowls.

It was thrift that moved the buyer of the bowls
But is was stop-at-nothing Love
that purchased earthen vessels
to carry heaven's glory,
The temporary
to contain the eternal,
and the stressed out to be a home
for the Prince of Peace!

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called the children of God!...I John 3:1
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not us. 2 Corinthians 4:7

It's Christmas!

Snow dresses fields in white

Sunbeams wreathe the hills in gold 


Clouds adorn themselves with red

Birds embellish trees

All nature joins to sing
Glory to the newborn King!

 Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad....before the Lord: for He cometh!!!!...Psalm 96:11-13

She knows?

She knows the answers
black or white, no in-between
In gray mist, a swan.

Does she cover it?
excuse it, deny it exists?
Or bow before the One
Who knows swans.

Sanctuary

You are with me always, this I know
But sometimes I need to fly
to some cathedral not made by man   
to wait in silence
for You.















We have thought on Your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of Your temple. Psalm 48:9

Early Snowfall

One October day     
winter bursts into fall    
catches him painting leaves
invites him to play.














Snowflakes sprinkle leaves

Adorn evergreens

Tumble into waterfalls

Tease motorists 













Captivate photographers 

Winter retreats
Leaves autumn to his glory
He just came to play
One October day

Lilies and Sparrows

Terrorism threatens

Unemployment is high

The government is broke

There's drought in the west

Food prices are rising

So much to worry about

What will I do?

Consider the lilies
They neither toil or spin
Yet Solomon, the wisest
richest man in the world
was not dressed as well
as these.

Consider the sparrows

They do no sow or reap

They don't store in barns
Yet Your Heavenly Father
continues to feed them
Are you not worth more
than lilies and sparrows?
So do not worry or be anxious. Your Father knows you need these things.
(From Matthew 6:25-34)

Giving Thanks?

     

                                                      



Why are you worried?













Yummm



Plenty for all

Tufted titmouse joins the feast 



That looks good!





 



Ending or Beginning?

Like a desert mirage    
the promise shimmers
beckoning, tantalizing
but eluding my grasp.

"It's not for you, it's not for you,
It's for the chosen few"
Despair chants the words
that mock the toil
struggle and strain
I wasted, to reach
the unattainable.

With no answers left
I give up.

But what's this? Does God
sing country music?
(with apologies to Kay Savage, Sandra Seamons, and George Jones. )
"Walk through this world with Me
Go where I go
Share all your dreams with Me,
I love you so,
And now that I've found you

New horizons you'll see  
Come take my hand
And walk through this world with Me."