Life

 

Life

The garden is alive with the sound of bees

humming happily with a song of glee

in the golden squash blossoms and snow peas

where they thankfully work all day for free,

pollinating while sipping morning tea.

It really is a pleasing sight to see.

Do be careful, for though bees are wee,

you won't want one to sit on your knee.

The garden is alive with singing birds.

From morning to evening music is heard.

A symphony of voices are on tour,

though sometimes it sounds like discord

when baby birds

learn to sing new chords.

Even so, their happiness does not bore,

each day it loudly and proudly soars.

The garden is alive with floating butterflies

which flutter down from somewhere high in the blue sky.

They never stay long, perhaps they are shy,

but when you do see them come down from on high

do take the time to go out to say hi

for all too soon they will wave bye bye.

Floating down to sip nectar, they flicker, flutter nigh

then, flicker, flutter to return high in the sky.

The garden is alive with numerous bugs -

beetles, worms, flies, gnats, mosquitoes, bores, ants, slugs – ugh!

There's even grubs

when the ground is dug.

Watch out, never a bug hug

for stinging ants create hubbub;

although earthworms and ladybugs

are good bugs gardener's love.

The garden is alive with a blaze of color

found in a rainbow of colorful flowers.

Hummingbirds know just when and where to come for dinner

as red bee balm and trumpet vine blooms in the summer.

There's orange day lilies and yellow sunflowers,

petals of purple on the cone flowers,

white daisies and pink phlox, a stunner,

in my little garden plot each summer.

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The garden is alive with various forms of life.

Wherever you look, green initiates the gift of life.

Unfortunately with life

comes assorted forms of strife.

In the garden it's insects

or weather not perfect,

although weeds survive

while other plants die.

In life

there's strife.

Everyday new problems

compound old problems.

It's hard to see the joy

when troubles annoy,

but God had a plan

for us humans.

Our problems mature us

and through them we learn to trust

in God's faithfulness

and inherent goodness.

Building a foundation of trust

will strengthen and encourage us,

growing our waning faith

through enabling grave.

Consider it pure joy, my brothers,

whenever you face trials of many kinds,

because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

Perseverance must finish its works so that you may be

mature and complete, not lacking anything.

James 1:2-4

In this you greatly rejoice,

though now for a little while

you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.

These have come so that you faith -

of greater worth than gold,

which perishes even though refined by fire -

may be proved genuine

and my result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Though you have not seen him, you love him;

and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him

and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

for you are receiving the goal of you faith,

the salvation of your souls.

I Peter 1:7-9

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