The Sparkle Ball

Listen: there’s a hushed sound

all around the town

when a pure white carpet is laid down

covering the ground all around.

Someone’s coming to your town

dressed in their prettiest ball gowns.

Take time to look around

at this festive sight found.

Tonight dressed in a sparkly white gown,

she makes her entrance, though without a sound.

Others are seen in black and white gowns,

some wear diamond-encrusted crowns.

Some gowns glitter in sequins round,

this special night out on the town.

Some wear fluffy ruffles all around,

while they silently dance in their gowns.

You might see noses that look like a clown

and faces that now wear a big frown

for not everyone likes this ball, it’s found.

In fact, it might leave some attendees housebound.

So where is this sparkle ball found?

You cannot hear it, for there’s no sound.

Who comes to town

wearing ball gowns?

Can you guess? It makes no sound

arriving quietly in towns,

leaving a white carpet all around,

and attendees wear sparkly gowns?

It’s the trees wearing white gowns

as snowflakes spiral round and round.

Soon the sparkle ball will be gone

when the sun shines all around.

* * * * *

View each day as a school

and you’ll learn something new

as you learn to look with eyes anew

at what’s bothersome to you.

Perhaps what makes you feel blue

and keeps you stuck like glue

is meant to teach you

something new and true.

Life takes many different turns, it’s true.

Not what’s expected surprises you.

Emergencies come with bills due.

What you thought you could rely on flew.

Perhaps if you looked with eyes anew

you’ll find God’s promises kept you

quite safe and out of harms way too.

Something only you and God knew.

Be sure to thank God for these daily lessons anew.

They’ll teach you God’s compassion and faithfulness is true.

Your faith will mature each day anew

as you trust God’s unfailing love for you.

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father,

may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you may know him better.

I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened

in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you...

Ephesians 1:17-18

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous

and his ears are attentive to their prayer.

I Peter 3:12

Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us

an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,

but on what is unseen.

For what is seen is temporary,

but what is unseen is eternal.

II Corinthians 4:17-18

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