Miracles

MIRACLES

Nature and its beauty cannot be explained

other than a miracle once ordained

by the Creator in the beginning

when life was established by God speaking

“and it was so” and “it was good”

as only the one true God could.

God created plants and trees

to bear seeds in their fruit, you see,

for God works out every detail

even making flowers male and female

with pistils and stamens

and ovaries, even.

Consider the lily for a minute

which propagates from a tuber or bulb

where it reproduces offshoots,

or seeds it might also produce.

Other lilies produce bulbettes in their leaf nodules.

A dozen per stalk each year to produce more. A real miracle!

Patient gardeners will wait

for these seeds to re-create.

Three years later they are rewarded,

for gardeners are not often thwarted,

with pretty blooms

when the bulb zooms.

Or the bulb will multiply

under the soil as if shy.

Every year to return

as if being reborn.

Another miracle in the offering.

One of the many joys of gardening.

Day lilies might also produce seed pods

as well as multiplying tubers in the sod.

Every “plant bearing seed according to their kind”:

lilies, purple cone flowers, rudbeckias, columbine,

oregano, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,

from God who showers blessings and daily sunshine.

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Creation shows the power of God

there's glory all around

and those who see

must stand in awe

for miracles abound.

I believe in miracles

I've seen a soul set free

miraculous the change in one

redeemed at Calvary

I've seen the lily push its way

up through the stubborn sod

I believe in miracles...for I believe in God.

By John W. Peterson

No one can say it better than that

so I'll leave you with this hymn intact.

Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation:

seed-bearing plants and trees on the land

that bear fruit with seed in it,

according to their various kinds." And it was so.

The land produced vegetation:

plants bearing seed according to their kinds and

trees bearing fruit with seed in it

according to their kinds.

And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:11-12

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