Poem Received
On A Late Spring Day in January (2006)
Cloudless blue canopy uncluttered by
snarling traffic here below.
Sunshine streaming fully on the
walkway as I go.
Deep desire for walking and for seeing it is so.
Reawakening of longing and reminder that I know:
For the Christian there can be summer in the January of the soul!
³And it came to pass...² This too shall pass.
Winter cannot freeze me in forever!
The cold of the frosty frigid front can¹t last
beyond a certain season. Yet how clever
of God to offer encouragement by a foretaste of the whole!
I will go through the gray and drizzly time
despite my age and the nature of the crime.
My heart still holds to Him and can this slime
defeat the purpose of my God? Summer at its prime
will be glorious! Yet one extraordinary day reminds
of the whole goal of the soul!
- Bill Hawkins, January 12, 2006
Cloudless blue canopy uncluttered by
snarling traffic here below.
Sunshine streaming fully on the
walkway as I go.
Deep desire for walking and for seeing it is so.
Reawakening of longing and reminder that I know:
For the Christian there can be summer in the January of the soul!
³And it came to pass...² This too shall pass.
Winter cannot freeze me in forever!
The cold of the frosty frigid front can¹t last
beyond a certain season. Yet how clever
of God to offer encouragement by a foretaste of the whole!
I will go through the gray and drizzly time
despite my age and the nature of the crime.
My heart still holds to Him and can this slime
defeat the purpose of my God? Summer at its prime
will be glorious! Yet one extraordinary day reminds
of the whole goal of the soul!
- Bill Hawkins, January 12, 2006
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