My Need For God

The afternoon’s warmth

Was blown away

By a western wind

Swooping in,

Causing me to shiver.

God got out His palette

To daub a rainy gray

Upon the clouds

That populated the sky.

Rays of sun valiantly poked

Past the growing clouds,

Streaming their light through the

Newly emerging leaves;

Turning them a pale,

Diaphanous green.

Birds, unperturbed by weather’s whims,

Sung merrily

From their treetop perches,

Filling the air with the cheery sounds of life.

The wind wiggled and tousled

Leaves, bushes and grass

As it bumped the clouds northward

In the baby blue expanse.

Deeply I inhaled the scent

Of new life as it

Rushed past me.

Deeply I breathed in its healing balm

That calms my soul.

I close my eyes

And try to leave my cares behind,

To become one

With God’s created world.

Oh for a moment to lose myself

In the simplicity and beauty before me;

To find release

From the pressures and uncertainty of life.

Here before me is a truth and reality

The world cannot comprehend,

As it races and rushes

Blind-eyed on its self-centered

Mission of destruction.

I can endure the onslaught only so long

Before I must stop,

Reset my mind,

Renew my spirit,

Allow the serenity of nature

To remind me of my need for Him.