Play an outside game in summer:
Name that flower!
Name it by species at least
If not the particular strain in that name.
The garden is dripping with possibility
To make the game easy.
Start perhaps with the childhood delight
First insight of garden pleasure we treasure,
That of the prolific, oh so apparently happy pansy,
Or the equally recognisable daisy.
And a renowned favourite of the urchin nasturtium.
There is another tier our attention will have drawn near
For the style or colour has attrac
Play an outside game in summer:
Name that flower!
Name it by species at least
If not the particular strain in that name.
The garden is dripping with possibility
To make the game easy.
Start perhaps with the childhood delight
First insight of garden pleasure we treasure,
That of the prolific, oh so apparently happy pansy,
Or the equally recognisable daisy.
And a renowned favourite of the urchin nasturtium.
There is another tier our attention will have drawn near
For the style or colour has attracted us,
Causing us to ask ‘What is this?’
May we remember the answer!
And there is for sure, one more added benefit.
For in playing the outside game in summer
Of ‘Name that flower’,
You will see many a colour previously unnoticed.
What is happening here, God ever keen to appear,
Is that an awareness of Him grows subtly.
Our Creator Father has very many a way of approaching us,
Some very directly, others more soberly, quietly.
He is able to enter our imagination and memory
In His own choice of way, day by day.
What a benefit this is to us,
As long as we remain open to God’s influence.
And this of course, means keeping praying!
Lord, so many flowers to name, so many colours to see. You must be at work, surely! Amen.
02.07.18
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