Can’t Believe?
I don’t believe this…
I can’t believe …
This cannot work…
Ah but it does
It isn’t …
A recipe
A charm
or magic spell
It is nothing we do
What you read here is
My familiarity with God
How I make sense
Of Experience
Of Relationship
With God
The Almighty
Everlasting
God
I point my camera and snap away
Later my computer magnifies
And I am heard to whisper
‘I don’t believe it…’
Such is the beauty and wonder
I see revealed
To discover a tiny spider
Hiding within a flower
A minute dragonfly
Fresh emerged from nymph
Drying on a rose
A wild bee exploring new horizons
To make Sugar Bag
And I am amazed
I see an ordinary bush with white flowers
Upon closer scrutiny
I see God’s Creating Hand
In fuzzy bud caps
Red and yellow streaked petals
Pendulous pompom
I find a rain drop
Brilliant in sunlight
I draw closer
Within that tiny aqueous globe
Rainbow hues
I turn and high above
Against a thunderous sky
Rain and Sun
Fragments Light
To reveal the Spectrum
Ever present but Invisible
In white light
This is no accident Friend
This is not Happenstance
No more than you or I
Are accidents of Being
We are not Pond Scum
But Beautiful Creation
Known by God before all
God knows
He knows all
He Loves like no other
He waits
For whilst we struggle to believe Him
He has abundant Faith and Hope in us
In Me
In You
He wants your heart to want Him
He will place each circumstance
To be tripped over
Run into
To beat our head against
Missing Him
Again and again
Until One Day
When you allow your ‘Heartcore’ to breath
To beat in Time with His
When you catch that first glimpse
Of Him
Of His
When you entertain the possibility
Then in wonder wide-eyed
The inner part will be made whole
The space within will fill with God
Hunger Satisfied
Do not look into the Heart of Doubt
Expecting to see Truth
Instead…
Stand upon that tiny island of Impossible
Keep watchful
Invite Him
To show you
Prepare to be proved wrong
Be aware
It is not your faith
Driving this
But God… always God
He misses you
He wants you
Home Again
To His Heart…
Words and Pictures © Denise Stanford 2010
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