Truth springs up from the earth, and righteousness smiles down from heaven. — Psalm 85:11, NLT Through leather my fingers grasp the soil, plow a tiny portion of ground, the sun warms my back countering the sensation of cold dirt still waking from winter’s slow-released breath, but the pear trees know, the white blooms announcedContinue reading “Let All the Earth”
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Rain
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” — Langston Hughes The thunder started and I hurried outside hoping for those plodding drops that begin before the full shower arrives — they landed, tiny, clear miracles kissing a welcoming earth, and theContinue reading “Rain”
Peace
I walked out into spring on Christmas Eve — a pink sky, a warm breeze — and time became meaningless as I was stilled into that perfection, the beauty of the calm and joyful hope — there will be peace on earth. —C.L. Fisher, December 2021 Unless otherwise indicated, all writings and images are theContinue reading “Peace”
A Simple Act
“Of all man’s works of art, a cathedral is greatest…. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.” – Henry Ward Beecher The roots have waited, held, retained, until we excavated a new space, mounds of soil removed, allowing ample pathways for the tender shoots to find water and nutrients, and we fewContinue reading “A Simple Act”
A Vast Vision
The Lord merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born. — Psalm 33:6 I turned this image upside down, imagining the clouds from heaven’s perspective and I was surprised how endless it seemed without the grounding of a horizon— my angle starting above the skyline— andContinue reading “A Vast Vision”
The Garden
My hands reach in deep, kneading soil, down and over, loosening the ground, willing it to accept an offering that waits in plastic, an inferior home for roots that long to grow, stretch into the rich humus that He used to form all life. What a privilege to be a tiller, a keeper of thisContinue reading “The Garden”
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”
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”
Uprooted
She lays the pale-pink rose inside the fountain remembering how it was a living thing, rooted, just a day or so ago, but the blush lingers, the scent remains, the petals are still silken to the touch, but only for a day or two more, with no roots, no veins inside the soil, it willContinue reading “Uprooted”
Fractals
And He Himself existed and is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. [His is the controlling, cohesive force of the universe.] — Colossians 1:17, Amplified Bible There is this calm that descends with a covering of snow, and if you listen, attend your ears deeper into the quiet cold, you willContinue reading “Fractals”
Poetic Meanderings 