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Showing posts with label tulips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tulips. Show all posts

Sunday, March 18, 2012

A prayer in spring...

 Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;

 And give us not to think so far away

As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
 
All simply in the springing of the year.
 
  Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,

 Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;

 And make us happy in the happy bees,

 The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
 
That suddenly above the bees is heard,

 The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,

 And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

 For this is love and nothing else is love,

 
The which it is reserved for God above

To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.
~~Robert Frost


Things in our neck of the woods are sprouting, blooming, and budding. Like answers to prayers.
Have a blessed week.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Tulips

The tulips make me want to paint,
Something about the way they drop
Their petals on the tabletop
And do not wilt so much as faint,
 
Something about their burnt-out hearts,
Something about their pallid stems
Wearing decay like diadems,
Parading finishes like starts,
 
Something about the way they twist
As if to catch the last applause,
And drink the moment through long straws,
And how, tomorrow, they’ll be missed.
 
The way they’re somehow getting clearer,
The tulips make me want to see
The tulips make the other me
(The backwards one who’s in the mirror,
 
The one who can’t tell left from right),
Glance now over the wrong shoulder
To watch them get a little older
And give themselves up to the light.
 
 A.E. Stallings

If you put flowers on the table, I will investigate. It's my job. ~Regan.
 
I wish you all a very happy weekend. If you've been following the sporadic posts, you've gleaned a bit of upheaval in our lives. We are still blessed. God has rained down blessings in the last 24 hours that blow my mind. My praises for Him are great and His timing is perfect. Thank you all for the concern and the woods of hope. You've made my day!

Tulips - Wal-Mart
Candleholders - Pottery Barn
Vase/Jug - One Kings' Lane
Cat - ruler of the castle
 
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11

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