To Your Loving Life

Posted on May 4, 2012by apronheadlilly

Another morning is here to lay at Your feet–
all the pain and thought traffic of this world.
From weak hands to Your strong loving life,
I unburden myself, unfasten my load.
In my gnawing weakness,
You are strong in me.
In my inability and short-sightedness,
You work creatively to make
all things right.

Freshly Dressed–Lilacs

Posted on April 1, 2012by apronheadlilly

 

Buds, asleep since summer, stretch and groan,
throwing off the gloom of winter’s sleep,
sloughing off constricting scales,
peeking through,
breaking through,
pressed by warming breezes.
With each new sun,
the growing and pushing opens in luscious bloom,
broadcasting bouquet to a tired and bare world.
Stretching with contour and color,
pulsing,
throbbing,
life dresses the barren with the fresh joy of spring.

Two Lips

Posted on March 27, 2012by apronheadlilly

For a hand up
and appropriate sympathy for my groans and puffs,
for prayers and vacuuming and laundry and such,
and now these happy flowers to cheer my lagging spirits:
So for tulips, I may give him mine.

Just a Thought . . .

A couple of years ago, I planted a white rose bush beside our already well-established deep rose one.  The white one happily took off and graced us with cascades of white lacy-petaled blossoms. 

But something funny is going on now.

This year, our once white roses are tinged with pink.  The deep color bush is obviously influencing the other. 

This got me thinking:  In some way, because they share the same soil and water, their lives have intermingled so that the lighter is taking on the attributes of the stronger color.  Perhaps because my roots and life are shared with my Master and Lord, my fruit will be tinged with His attributes, as well.  May it ever be so.

Spring's Things in My Camera