Patience – Poems From Psalms And Nature

revision

another idea for a post

or poem

a different window
for a new plant

changes in daily life
to support health

revision as life grows

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
thou hast made summer and winter.

Psalm 74: 17

I wrote this poem yesterday:

spruce tree branches
by the window
where I write

thoughts of my parents
and all the history
they lived through

one day at a time
and careful plans
for the future

as I write in this day’s
bright morning light

Ellen Grace Olinger

Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it:

thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God,
which is full of water:

thou preparest them corn,
when thou hast so provided for it.

Psalm 65: 9

Food inspires many art photos. I selected this one today.

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee,
when my heart is overwhelmed:
lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Psalm 61: 1 – 2

Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing:
for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.

Psalm 59: 17

Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me:

for my soul trusteth in thee:

yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge,

until these calamities be overpast.

Psalm 57: 1

birds perch
in sheltering branches
a grain of mustard seed

(Matthew 13: 31 – 32)

Ellen Grace Olinger
Time Of Singing
December 1995