Tuesday, August 12, 2025

stones

We offer beauty to god
Usually flowers and fruit 
But my son, at three, saw beauty in rocks

Day after day id find new stones at the altar
God made rocks too he'd say

These were not the quartz speckled twinkling variety, 
Nor the tide smoothened round pebbles 
They were mostly small nd mishapen
stained brown from stoning on soil

But he saw grace

At three he taught me
God's creations are beautiful 
even indelicate ones
And that there is beauty in the everyday
If we could see the world with a child's eye

that sometimes only children see

Sad to say he outgrew this habit of collecting rocks for god
But 

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