Leaves of Life - April 14

Leaves of Life 
Daily Inspiration by Margaret Bird Steinmetz

APRIL FOURTEENTH

Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies—
Hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower—but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
—Alfred Tennyson.

So much is history stranger than fiction, and so true it is Nature has caprices which Art dares not imitate.

—Thomas Macaulay.

Nature is the face of God. He appears to us through it, and we can read his thoughts in it.

—Victor Hugo.

Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works
which thou hast done,
And thy thoughts which are to us-ward.
—Psalm 40. 5.

Eternal God, I thank thee for the seasons which bring abundance and beauty. I thank thee for thy loving care, which is over all and forever. May I behold thy works and make thee a very present help for all my needs, and perceive the joy of thy love through the greatness of the earth. Amen.

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