reaching

Dark are the branches

Reaching for light

High is the path of

The hawk in its flight

Turning and gliding

Greeting the night

Why do we hunger

For beauty so right

Why do we hunger for beauty

Music and Lyric by Jim Croegaert, Why Do We Hunger for Beauty, sung by Steve Bell

falling

falling leaves

hide the path

so quietly

John Bailey

are

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Donald Miller

complexity

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me.

Donald Miller

shadow

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

Anonymous

lights

God spoke: "Lights! Come out! Shine in Heaven's sky! Separate Day from Night. Mark seasons and days and years, Lights in Heaven's sky to give light to Earth." And there it was.

Genesis 1:14, The Message

tree

If you grow a healthy tree, you'll pick healthy fruit. If you grow a diseased tree, you'll pick worm-eaten fruit. The fruit tells you about the tree.

Matthew 12:33, The Message

clover

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson

indescribably

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Miller

flourishing

A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree.

Proverbs 11:28, The Message