This is my wish for you....
A friend when you need a loving hug.
Joy when you wake, and a hot coffee mug.
A rainbow on high when you need some hope.
Faith to believe when you have to cope.
Smiles when sadness causes you woe.
Courage whenever your spirit is low.
Sunshine to brighten a gloomy day.
Beauty as you wend your way.
Patience when everything falls apart.
And love, sweet love, to warm your heart.
© - Joyce P. Hale

BY DESIGN

Coincidence, evolution, or Grand Design.
To each their own belief; here's mine!

Whenever I see the white-capped waves
tumble upon the sandy shore,
watch the moon as it waxes and wanes
as its done for eons from days of yore;
as seasons change in ceaseless rhythm
and planets follow their orbit true ,
as day and night trail each the other
and leaves and trees and flowers renew;
the life-giving sun, refreshing rain,
the countless shapes and hues of blooms,
the butterflies and birds and creatures,
the eternal shifting of sandy dunes;
the love of parents for their child,
the natural grasp of a baby's hand;
the love between a man and a woman....
all this can only be one grand Plan.
Within my heart and soul I cannot
conceive of these wonders as incidental;
the rhythm and flow of life and death
to me cannot be accidental.

And so I thank our God sublime
for the Universe - His Grand Design.
© - Joyce P. Hale

I Never.....

I never climbed the mountains grand that tower over valleys low,
that reach into the heavens high and man with fear and awe bestow.
I've never plumbed the ocean's floor or waves alive with teeming life,
the coral reefs and underworld with size and shapes and colors rife.
I've yet to take to air alone on billowed cloth or gliding span,
and probably will not ever do all things that searching mankind can.

But I have had a tiny babe wrap reaching fingers 'round my thumb,
and had the warmth of love enfold me in its arms when day is done.
I've seen the golden orb of life break forth beyond the ocean's spray,
and linger casting awesome skies for all to see at end of day.
I've watched the tiny hummingbird of fearless size in hovering flight;
and seen the wild river gallop through the gorge from fearsome height.

And so if now my God should choose to say my time is up, and call...
Why, I could calmly take His hand, for I have had it all.
© - Joyce P. Hale

LIFE CHANGES

For years I chased the rainbow's gold,
and rode the carousel so gay
to try to catch the fabled ring,
and sought to capture the sunbeam's ray.
My footsteps, intent on keeping up,
bypassed God's beauty on the way.

But then one day I realized that life
was not so very long
to miss the scent of flowering blooms
and music of the songbirds' song.
My headlong race through days and years
would have no meaning when I'm gone.

Now I stop to smell the flowers,
enjoy the nights and gaze at the moon,
feel the infinite planets and stars,
listen to breezes in treetops croon;
and bask in the warmth and beauty of
the comfort of Mother Nature's womb.

Take time to tell someone you love them;
never leave caring words unsaid.
Leave the paths of nature the same
as it was before it felt your tread.
Let your legacy be love and beauty
as your earthly days here wane and ebb.
© Joyce P. Hale

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