Amazed by Love

[MIRIAM JACOB]

Amazed by Love

At times, we realize that prayer
Can be an act of love;
Taking a walk with God, hearing His voice
The lifting of an open heart;
That offers all its emptiness for Love to fill
Allowing God to speak,
To soothe the aches of life, in silent song:
Allowing time to be amazed by love.

Amazed by Love
That made the season of the shrouded cloud
And snow; when crystal shards, break sharp-
Snapping from frozen streams;
Making the harshness sing with strange shrill beauty;
When whispers echo in the frosted air
And promises that snuggle in the arms of home.
Amazed by Love
And Love
Prepared an empty room, swept clean
For pastel painting of the coming spring.

Amazed by Love that made warm waters flow again
Lifting the green life’s arms in ceaseless praise.
When loving secrets are absorbed
In soft arched furnishings of ferns.

Amazed by Love
Glowing with radiance in the darker days;
A light that bathes the barest branches
Of our emptiness with a beauty still unseen
When lives are covered with a warm green fullness.
When love is tested in the searing cold
Faces the iron of starkest truths,
Then can it rise and shine;
Amazed by Love,
Alighting sweet and unexpected
Soft like a nesting bird, and stirring courage
And a thankfulness
Washed clean by tears.

Amazed by love that melts into a smile
Across a leafy transformation,
Amazed by love
That colours flowers of hope
Into the bleak brown earth.

© Pauline Griffiths