Thursday, March 31, 2011

Seeing

Words fail sometimes.  And I felt like the words in my post Choosing Life were a bit of a failure.  Let me try again.  This time with someone else's words instead of my own.

Seeing
by Leland Foster Wood



Let me see
Thy beauty, O God


Let me not dimly pass
By flaming bushes
And by sparkling streams,
By mountain crag and peak;


Mid bursting of the spring
Or mellow autumn tints
Or winter's white solemnity



Let me not gaze at sunsets uninspired
Or morning skies unmoved,
Nor look in human eyes
With sharp unseeing sight of selfishness.


Let me see thy beauty, O God
In nature, and in thought
In sympathy and kindly deed,
And all the upward striving of mankind.

4 comments:

Caitlin said...

...Mmmmmm.

Thank you.

Oil painting for beginners said...

This is such a great site! I like the way you set this up! Great content! Thanks for sharing this!...Daniel

Kelsey said...

That was inspiring. Thanks :-)

healthycells said...

Simply beautiful, beatuifully simple!
Hugs, Mom

Post a Comment