Show the god of small things not the vast god ged of continents and seas the lord of thunder voul in m his might who rides upon the lightning and the wind smiting the first horn in the shuddering night but ile he who fashions in his tender hands the small white wings that bear a thistle thistle seed who tunes tune 3 th tho nio mourning pigeons wistful note colors the fl flaming arning petals of a weed the god who heals the broken bark of trees who tints the scarlet of the robins breast curls the wee tendrils of a climbing rose fashions the swaying cradle of a nest this is the god we need who understands the small importance of a loaf of bread who hears the stumbling prayer of homeless men and sends them from his presence comforted 0 god of common folk help us to know the heart that fashions all these tender things Is mindful of his own and brings us safe into the harbor of his sheltering edna jaques in the christian advocate |