The Wait is Over

The Wait is Over

I can feel God in the chord progressions

I can sense His love dancing on the air

I can accept His touch in the words that fly

The ones I can and cannot compare

I see His order as it falls in the shadows

The light from the sun on the vines

I see His dance as He moves on the spring winds

Not knowing the depths of His glory that are mine

I see the call of new life in the flowers

I hear His voice in the sound from the trees

I see His foundations in the blades of the grasses

I sense His awe as I go to my knees

I stand in the midst of His glory in springtime… 

K, Duane Carter 3-19-11 

Discovery

Discovery

I sit here quietly, pondering

Waiting for words to drop like the rain from the sky

A constant, a constant wondering why

Looking for reasons that don’t exist

In the place where I understand

Things formed by a greater hand

Infinitely great, infinitely small

Infinitely vast, infinitely all

Which is why I am quiet in my pondering

Somewhat afraid to journey into that

For when could I ever return?

For when could I ever learn,

When there is no end to the learning?

Yet I cannot deny the burning, yearning

Heaven strikes its most beautiful note

And my heart just sings and rings

Sounds I don’t understand

Lyrics I don’t comprehend

Yet they are placed right here before me

In the faces of my wonder-filled children

In the smile of my beautiful wife

In the breath that flows through my being

In the Presence that gives me my life

I take the step,

Discovering I actually have wings

See what happens when heaven sings?

My heart still rings…

K, Duane Carter 3-5-11

Flower

 

Flower

There is so much more beauty in a flower

Than one can gain in half an hour

There is so much more beauty to pursue

That is a deeper but mere reflection of you

We long to live, we long to gasp

At wonder that lies beyond our grasp

Yet there it is within our reach

All we can gain is all we beseech

Into the depths of wonder we go

We rise in ebb and sink in flow

We love in hate and are weak in power

Oh, there is so much more beauty in this flower

K, Duane Carter   5-31-10