The Brighest and the Beautiful

"All things bright and beautiful; All creatures great and small; All things wise and wonderful; The Lord God made them all." Mrs. Cecil Alexander The Brightest and the Beautiful The brightest and the beautiful - Small bits of sunlight seen Through storms in colors Floating In the sky; In raindrops forming puddles Flowing Into racing streams That meet To make the restless tides Or snowflakes - no two quite alike - Gathering on high peaks - Bits of dust From millenniums, Long passed Piled high - Create a picture lovely For the great and the small In a heart of tiny cells, Born from a little seed unseen, To jump in joy at the vision Seen through crystal windowpanes Birthed from grains of sand Forged in a furnace fire up roaring; The wonderful, the wisest plan Of acrorns Forming mighty forest oaks On steep hills - Raised into Heaven's smile - Of gathered fragrant leaves or berries Blending into cups of balm For restless cores Where dreams and dreamers Meet, Warmed by mantles Woven from thin silken threads, Resting in serenity's open arms Lifting up small prayers of a thousand voices Into miracles Fashioned by the Lord of earth and Heaven - Like bright pennies found by serendipity Upon the roadside That promise blessings - Rejoicing life - From the Lord, our God, Who made them all.