Nothing Lost - fall

The colors spilling, spinning 'round
upon the pallet spread,
orange, green,
yellow, brown,
the earth tones bled;
exchanging life as it was before
now together,
flowing,
onto forests canvas floor
like ebbing embers
glowing -
mingling in - the soothing sounds
of shifting leaf and cricket song
singing that it's not the end,
what you were goes on,
for as the leaves come molting down
they mold together into ground
from which more life will ever spring
a beautiful cycle,
unending.

Healing - summer

Pour out rays of sunshine

when the skies are gray,

pour on Your forgiveness

for my foolish ways,

let me pour out my soul

into Your warm embrace

and let me drink forever

from Your fountain of Grace.

Water, water

chasing after me

There is no escaping

such a persistant sea

I tried to make a life

on the desert sand

but the thirst for You, my Lord,

was more than I could stand.

Pour out rays of sunshine

when the skies are gray,

pour on Your forgiveness

for my foolish ways,

let me pour out my soul

into Your warm embrace

and let me drink forever

from Your fountain of Grace.

Who but You? - summer

Who but You,

O God,

would send a beautiful sunset

where no one sits?

Who but You,

O God,

has created creatures

that no one knows exists?

Who but you,

O God,

could put into motion

a swirling ocean

teeming with life,

unseen by eyes

other than Yours,

purely for Your delight.

Who but You,

O God,

who was

and i

and is to come.

Who but You,

O God,

could do what

You alone

have done.