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Listening relaxes strangleholds that impound change within padlocked barriers.
Listening steels resolve to accept the unacceptable, with its terror of the unknown.
Listening encourages taking the next step wherever it leads, up or down, anywhere.
Listening eases raspy breaths until the next treatment, with the expulsion of fluids.
Listening stills the gibberish wheel whirling nonessentials into crazed perceptions.
Listening staunches imperatives that impound choices within sticky globs of paste.
Listening softens the jagged edges of anger intent upon maiming, grousing, lying.
Listening defuses pompous pretending like pricking helium balloons tied to gates.
Listening twizzles cacophony into harmonious rhythms that brilliance moods.
Listening unearths flickering images signaling critical change in the night sky.
Listening greens hope that hides out in recesses of stuffed closets and drawers.
Listening waters parched arroyos with decades of insect and animal detritus.
Listening enhances words that vibrate like dulcimers along mountain streams.
Listening teases shimmering pastels that titter in sunshine-drenched mornings.
Listening patches potholes of isolation and ignorance with significant connections.
Listening burgeons whispered prayer like striped camellia blossoms in full flower.
Such listening fosters obedience of the heart, authentic living, and growth in His likeness.
Loose soils engorge spidery bulbs beneath wintry graves.
Hesitant greens wiggle and meander among mulched beds.
March rains drench tentative shoots like children forgetting their lines.
Weeks pass.
Spiked blades pattern gardens like players on chessboards.
Hard nubs stretch like infants flailing rubbery limbs.
Flickers of pink balloon and soften the petals.
Within such freshness glistens Creator God, the Master Colorist.
The same Colorist also brings forth spring shows within us, if we wish.
We give thanks!
Soils engage spidery bulbs beneath wintry graves.
Hesitant blades pierce the mulch.
March rains dampen tentative greens like children forgetting their lines.
Weeks pass.
Spiked blades pattern gardens like players on chessboards.
Hard nubs stretch like infants flailing rubbery limbs.
Flickers of color balloon and soften the petals.
Tulips have returned.
We give thanks!
Heart Whisperings 