2 min 00 sec: app reading time
January 17, 2025
LIFE IS GOD'S ART
Dear Friend:
LIFE in all its manifestations is God's masterpiece; God's art!
"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, God said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful" -Rumi (13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic)
"The things of nature, upon which we look today, give us but a faint conception of Eden's beauty and glory; yet the natural world, with unmistakable voice, proclaims the love of God. Even now "the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord." It still reveals the working of the great Master-Artist." Ellen. G. White
“God's artistic signature is visibly hidden inside of every breathing thing on earth.”― Morgan McCarver, (God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery)
By Angela Morgan
God, when you thought of a pine tree,
How did you think of a star?
How did you dream of the Milky Way
To guide us from afar.
How did you think of a clean brown pool
Where flecks of shadows are?
God, when you thought of a cobweb,
How did you think of dew?
How did you know a spider's house
Had shingles bright and new?
How did you know the human folk
Would love them like they do?
God, when you patterned a bird song,
Flung on a silver string,
How did you know the ecstasy
That crystal call would bring?
How did you think of a bubbling throat
And a darling speckled wing?
God, when you chiseled a raindrop,
How did you think of a stem,
Bearing a lovely satin leaf
To hold the tiny gem?
How did you know a million drops
Would deck the morning's hem?
Why did you mate the moonlit night
With the honeysuckle vines?
How did you know Madeira bloom
Distilled ecstatic wines?
How did you weave the velvet disk
Where tangled perfumes are?
God, when you thought of a pine tree,
How did you think of a star?
