Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? —Matthew 6:25-27
I believe even when
the sky is a beautiful blue, or maybe even another hue
my foot has a bad nerve, or I am allowed to serve
that beautiful bee stung me, or my son is high in a tree
the entire area decides to flood, or my husband’s finger is covered in blood
my Mother has cancer in her lung, or when hymns of praise are being sung
all of my body has an ache, or my son decides brownies to bake
my son calls to say he is in a wreck, or when we are watching Star Trek
after a rain, the sky gives me a rainbow, or my son drops an engine on his big toe
the outside is covered in ice, or my neighbor is being extremely nice
we are totally without power, or I see a magnificent flower
the bills are all due, or the baby’s brand new
when we are cold, in the rain, in a tent,
or just waiting for the Season of Advent when a tiny Baby will save me
How can that possibly be?
the soldiers put him on a cross
and it is to be their great loss
because they know not who is the Boss
Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for the beauty of creation, the blue of the sky, the gifts of music, and the joy of family and fellowship. We thank you too that in the difficulties of life, you are still with us to lead and guide us on our way. In this Advent season we thank you that you humbled yourself to become a tiny baby and in this gift of love we too are offered new life. Amen.
Daphne G. Grady
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