... ..   ...   . ,,,  ,,,	Fullness of Life home            Life-Gold menu              PREVIOUS    NEXT A  CLOTH  OF  GOLD   The many parts of Nature are like the adornments on a weaving or tapestry.   God is richly embroidering our lives, also, with His gifts, mercies, and graces.
	LIFE-GOLD collection of poems copyright (c) 1995 by Marilee Miller illustrated Web version copyright (c) 2009 by Marilee Miller All rights reserved.  One copy allowed on non-commercial computers for personal use.  Otherwise, no copying in any form (electronic, digital, or mechanical) without permission.         admin  @  cooshistory  com     (close up spaces and add dot)
	NATURE'S WEAVE Sunlight and shadow   As I move along,      Weave about the head   Of Nature     Far more beautiful fabrics       Than any wrought            On mannish-make loom! Ruby flow'rets and   Blue jay's bright sapphire wing     Make colors   Far more lovely than from any       Dyepots have bloomed! Grass and leaf,     And mole hills brown,   Fallen log and gullied vale     Add to the textures       More creative   Than yarns man-spun. Moth with wings of red,     Glowing fire; body black matte;   Or ripening teasel, wheaten tone     Mingling with greeny leaves;       Or flash of silver-black         Of swallows dipping     Handsomely, on the wing. Nature's pattern     Shows far more life   "In tapestry" Than I could dream of making   By plying threads to     Craft imitiative design. ~ * ~ LIFE'S FABRIC But there is yet another sort of   "Fabric" more beautiful      Than natural trove fraught     With color's threaded wonder! My eyes only dimly see   Its delightsome pattern,   And then shall only perceive   Beauty when the seeming whole cloth     Is raveled, worked asunder. I speak of life's gold --   The stuff of dreams and reality! God working in silent mystery,   On secret actuality. The colors bright He forms   Are gifts from God:        Grace, mercy, and delight.  The textures bold    Are interlacings, His choice,      Of sorrow, joy, gladness,        Heartaches, and pain. And amidst the weavings   I shall find at last,        My spirit's gain. The whole cloth is my life   And purpose -- before this     Very God Indwelling,   Whose work I so dimly see.     And only in heaven         Shall my finished tapestry In fully guided story, unfold,           For story to behold The exquisite skills,   The craftsmanship of God at work,     Creating the fabric I call         so dearly, "ME". ~ * ~  LIFE-GOLD collection of poems copyright (c) 1995 by Marilee Miller illustrated Web version copyright (c) 2009 by Marilee Miller All rights reserved.  One copy allowed on non-commercial computers for personal use.  Otherwise, no copying in any form (electronic, digital, or mechanical) without permission.         admin  @  cooshistory  com     (close up spaces and add dot) Fullness of Life home    Life-Gold menu                                 PREVIOUS     NEXT