This past week at Gateway’s Family Journey night we read and thought on the words of Psalm 103. This psalm is full of God’s marvelous works and one of the exercises was to write a poem on our encounter with God’s wonders.
Well, it is always too noisy and the time too short to really write poems so I found one I had written a few years ago. In this land of living skies, God displays his wonders often. Here we go….
Evening Sky
How does God do that?
Shift colours
From brilliant orange
To yellow-blue
Then deepening midnight blue and stars,
Throw in
Wisps of inky cloud
Just for show
And on the north horizon
Brush shifting curls
And sheets of drifting light.
This splendor’s mirrored in the river
As if, in leaving his studio,
The train of God’s garment
Lingered long in the evening sky.