Morning-song

Early morning sunlight
reflective sea

Across the bay
magnified mountains stand sharp
against crisp peach sky

My mountains' shadow
half-way across sea
the shape clear blue
on ice-pink shore

Far above, pastel sketches
white birds against shdow
turn black against light
wheeling on invisible strings

Sharp quick edges softened
slowed and waiting for warmth

World waits in wonder
watching a new fresh day

- Michelle B (15/06/1989)

Oh Lord, you have created a beautiful world for us. This morning I arrived at work angry and upset over administrative decisions that once again leave me financially at sea. I clasped my anger to my heart, not willing to let it go and leave my future in Your hands. I WANTED to be angry, I HAD TO look upset and let the poison flow in my veins.
But then I stood at my office window, looking over the bay and across to Cape Point - watching the march of a cold front across the mirror of the ocean.
How can I be angry when you have made such beauty for me? How can I let my petty upsets ruin the day you have created - a day that you have graciously allowed me to see? How can I harbour grudges when I know this world is fleeting, life is short and you have something a million times better waiting for me when this world ends?
Lord, let me rest in you today - let me be still and KNOW that you are GOD. You know the plans you have for me, plans to prosper and not harm, plans to give a future and hope. Let me lie in your arms like a child in the arms of its Father - let me rest my care-worn head on Your broad eternal chest and just be Your child today.

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