In My Dead Grandfather's Old Blue Sweater
Shemaiah,
Your sweater meditation put me in mind of this. Grace in small moments. Thanks for sharing yours.
Chris
Bible Study with Farm Girl
8/16//2022
I chanced upon a treasure in a book.
God speaks, we learn, in Scripture, and I lucked
Upon a four-leaf clover as I looked
For lines in Mother’s Bible. She had tucked
It near the end of Matthew Six, embraced
Between age yellowed pages, yet still green
Despite four decades passed. Her farm girl grace
Was looking for God’s signs, sometimes unseen,
Vermillion stripes along a cliff, the red
On blackbirds wings. Consider, said our Lord,
The lilies of the field – and so she did.
In clover is my memory restored:
I study with the eyes she passed along,
And seek out what will last when I am gone.
Shemaiah,
Your sweater meditation put me in mind of this. Grace in small moments. Thanks for sharing yours.
Chris
Bible Study with Farm Girl
8/16//2022
I chanced upon a treasure in a book.
God speaks, we learn, in Scripture, and I lucked
Upon a four-leaf clover as I looked
For lines in Mother’s Bible. She had tucked
It near the end of Matthew Six, embraced
Between age yellowed pages, yet still green
Despite four decades passed. Her farm girl grace
Was looking for God’s signs, sometimes unseen,
Vermillion stripes along a cliff, the red
On blackbirds wings. Consider, said our Lord,
The lilies of the field – and so she did.
In clover is my memory restored:
I study with the eyes she passed along,
And seek out what will last when I am gone.