Monday, May 18, 2015

Shining Gifts

My dear people,
let us love one another
since love comes from God
and everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
                                                                                    1 John 4 
                                                                                                               Photo by C Scodova


                                                 My youngest daughter brings me fire
                                                 in a candle-jar,

                                                 shadows falling like petals
                                                 all around her.

                                                 My eldest daughter brings me Mother of Evening
                                                 she has gathered from the edges of fields 

                                                 in the violet-blue thickets of dawn,
                                                 her eyes bright as tangled bird songs.

                                                 They step through the dew-drenched dark 
                                                 to awaken me with gifts

                                                 on my birthday morning,
                                                 arms full of shining

                                                 love I am borne,
                                                 by grace, into.
                                               








8 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday Dear Cynthia! What lovely gifts you received!

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    1. Thank you Anne! A what a lovely gift to hear from you!!!

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  2. How beautiful. Happy birthday :) !

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    1. Thanks Nancy!!! Your stopping by made it happier!!!

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  3. Oooh so beautiful! Happy belated Birthday dear Cynthia! Your girls sound so precious. May you have a most wonderful year to come! xoxo

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    1. Thank you Patricia!! And thanks be to God for all his gifts! Grateful for beautiful you!!! Good to see you here this morning!!! Hope you are in wonder too!!!

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  4. What sweet girls!!!
    I love that you wrote out this memory. Saved forever in poem.

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  5. We are extremely blessed by our beautiful children! So grateful for them everyday. I will always have this memory of their love given so sweely...Thanks and enjoy the blessing s of your beautiful children...they are adorable!!!

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