Maybe flowers weep, heaving sadness up through the stem and down the tender leaves, distilling living beauty into the vapor of perfume so that at least their scent will be carried into a world too busy to slow into an awareness that beauty lives everywhere. —C.L. Fisher, March 2021 Unless otherwise indicated, all content, including writingContinue reading “Diffusing Beauty”
Tag Archives: creation
The Depths We Miss
Too often we hurry past a universe of beauty, depths just waiting to remind us that we live on a remarkable planet amid an astounding variety of created life. There is art in places we never think to look, there is loveliness that you must pause to see, so still your being and perceive theContinue reading “The Depths We Miss”
Going Home
Then Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust in Him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. — Ephesians 3:17-18, NLTContinue reading “Going Home”
Breathing Rhythm
They lean in, nestled down in thicket meant to protect; you would miss them, walk right past them, if not attentive, to these gentle creatures who pause and wonder why we rush past when we are meant to linger, to sway like trees, to lean in like deer, to stay in the shaded pathway andContinue reading “Breathing Rhythm”
Steps
The steep bank at the end of a trail left us with our only option, and so we stood, gazed out upon the gentle waters, took time to consider the beauty of a moment before turning back, retreading, impressing our steps further into soil, joy- filled by the notion we had forged our part of aContinue reading “Steps”
Trees Weep, Too
The limp leaves that begin to curl before drying on the limb and letting go, the bark that fissures and cracks, peeling back from the trunk, the sap that seeps and runs to cover a wound or release disease, the canopy that sags in drought or after a heavy spring storm — in this worldContinue reading “Trees Weep, Too”
A Dynamic Slate
Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. —Ecclesiastes 3:11 How does the slender stem hold the long and silky petals and the pollen filled center pillow of theContinue reading “A Dynamic Slate”
Unseen
The trees of the Lord are well cared for—the cedars of Lebanon that he planted. There the birds make their nests, and the storks make their homes in the cypresses.—Psalm 104:16-17, NLT We look at trees, the sturdy trunk, the strong limbs, the spindly branches reaching out, the leaves weaving into a canopy that sheltersContinue reading “Unseen”
Stardust
He made all the stars—the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the southern sky. — Job 9:9, NLT I wonder if stardust has ever settled on my cheeks on one of those clear cold nights when I step out and turn my face up; there is no warmth in the moon, butContinue reading “Stardust”
The Commute
13.4 miles— there and back again— it is a groove, an echo, a pattern, my route. I rarely vary the way, same turns same times each day, and I pray, listen to a tune or two, contemplate my list of to-dos, but the best relay of my repeated loop happens when my eyes and spiritContinue reading “The Commute”
Poetic Meanderings 