Pause for Prayer: SUNDAY 11/3

                                                    Photo by John McGinty

 

I love the perspective of my friend's photo here:  

   the view of fallen leaves...

 

These leaves have done their duty, Lord!

 

Last spring they budded barren branches,

waiting to unfold in leafy beauty

and fulfill their given task:

    to shade us from the summer's sun,

    a refuge and a cooler place to sit,

        read, picnic, hold a dear friend's hand

    and carry on those conversations 

        solving most, if not all, 

            of this world's many problems...

 

Then, before retiring just at summer's end

    - a costume change for fall's finale,

         gracing us with glories 

            only you, Lord, might have dreamed...

But now, applause is fading, hushed by autumn's chill

    as the leaves fall gently, one by one, 

landing on and weaving a soft and tender carpet 

    where we tread - but oh, so softly -

        listening in the rustling

            for November's parting song...

As the season ends these fallen leaves 

    look up into the heavens,

        searching for their Maker,

    praying for the rest they've earned,

        the rest they so deserve...

 

And I look up to heaven, too,

    in praise of you, my Maker

as one day I'll look up again

    when like the fallen leaves, Lord,

I'll pray I find the rest I seek,

    the peace that you have promised...

The leaves have done their duty, Lord,

    - may I do mine as well...

Amen.

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