"Consider the lilies...Consider the birds..."
-Luke 12:24-28
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Lilies and Birds...
...having in common uncommon comeliness
diminutive beauty for beauty's sake
meticulously mixed metaphor
written between lovely lines...
...an invitation to total abandon into unseen Hands
painstakingly penned on petaled parchment
inscribed in winged word
evidence of the Everlasting Arms
underneath, undergirding,
harboring, holding...
this delicate unfolding
of petals, of wings
this Becoming, this Being
till flight and flowering reach a sacred crescendo
and I flourish in your Hands once again
and I flourish in your Hands once again
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-e.a.a. "Hindsfeet" 9/28/12
oh friend, your words are music
ReplyDeleteand lilies and birds
always speak
straight to my heart
where it needs
a nudge open.
thanks for this nourishing goodness,
Jennifer
I love both lilies
ReplyDeleteand birds and these
beautiful words
weave them both
together in the
loveliest of ways.
As a matter of fact,
Suzanne means lily
in Hebrew : ) Maybe
why I have such an
affinity? And birds,
ah birds....
Keep writing!
xo Suzanne