Within the Vine

 

Gazing into a hot fire

Can prove mesmerising

There within heated canyons

Shape-moving

Light flares, dances

Flame curls and spins

Castles form and fall

With crackle, pop and murmur

All reduces to one element

Ash

One coal falls away

It loses touch

Loses heart

Loses heat

Passion cools

Darkens and dies

So too with Christian Fellowship

The family

Community

Common Unity

Of Church

Healthy Fellowship

Stays In Touch

Alive with Enthusiasm

Warm with Love and Passion

I am thankful for all 

I expereince…

So many wonderful people in Life

Those who speak

Smile

Share

Cry with me

With others

Those who

Hope

Befriend

Banter

Laugh

Those who take time

Those who listen

Those who understand

Those who don’t but they stay anyway

I share with my Sisters

100 of them

All Ages 

All Life Stages

All Beautiful

All engaged in life and all it holds

All open, in all that it means

All generous in different ways

I sit in a large room surrounded by family

200 of them

Friends and Strangers

Older, younger

Men, women, children

Sharing…

Hugs

Stories

Food

Experience

Blessings

Trials

I see young children

Trusted

Making choices

From plenty

I see men and women

Children again

Enjoying more than enough

Grateful for a meal made for them

 We worship together

Learn together

Grow together

Here is Acceptance

Here is Different but Same

Here is True Beauty in every face

Here is Power

Here is Love

Here is Church…

Here is Fellowship

Here is Generous Love

Here is Passion

Here is the Glowing Heart

…Of God

Words, Photographs and Watercolour © Denise Stanford  2010

~ by Denise Within the Vine on 19/07/2010.

Posted in Encouragement, Gratitude Journal, I See, Praise, Prayer, Reflections, Thanksgiving