Praise

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade,
 the presence of God.
 The world is crowded with him. He walks everywhere incognito.

C.S. Lewis

You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace:

 the mountains and the hills will break forth

 before you into singing,

 and all the trees of the field will clap—will clap their hands.

 Isaiah 55:12

Praise

by Elece Hollis

 If I could sing like a violet, offer incense like a rose, 

Dance before God in the wind like a daffodil,
Bless God like a hyacinth does,

If I could praise.

If I could whisper prayers like the dandelions

 Trust my seeds to His wind, if I could worship

So well as these in the spring grasses,

If I could praise.

If I could twirl like a tulip

Bow like a pearl peony, follow his light like a sunflower,

Sing like a blossoming tree to my creator

If I could praise.

I would find my heart content.

©2014 Elece Hollis , author of Meet God in the Morning, Poems from the Heart of Prayer,

 a devotional book with poems by Helen Steiner Rice. Find this book.

Out of Darkness

Joy is to behold God in everything.

Julian of Norwich

Out of Darkness

 By Elece Hollis

Out of the brown and sodden earth springs spring 

To surprise us again

Though we knew she was coming

 We knew and we waited and we thought ourselves

Watching!

 Spring came one morning—sprouted up

Surprised us yet again

With purple crocus and yellow daffodils dancing

How from brown come such joyful colors—yet they come

 Laughing!

 God created Adam from the dirt—now from the soil

Surprises us again

He mixes dirt with sunlight and rain 

 To wake our hearts and souls from winter's drear and set us

Singing!

Read Elece's devotional book for Springtime inspiration.

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