Joyful Journeying

orchidee



Tune: Diademata

('Crown Him with many crowns')

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On through the countryside

Many passages hide

Through greenery, or seasons scene

Bare land of Winter seen

Or Spring's new growth once more

God's faithfulness for sure

Or Summer's foliage displayed

Or Autumn's hues arrayed

 

You, Creator of all

Of all things, great, small, tall

Here pathway runs, with ditch beside

Flora, fauna reside

A ditch on either side

Safe on the path to bide

Walking along 'neath tops of trees

Your wonders each one sees

 

Discovering tracks long

Deserted from great throng

Though pleasant rambles folk do take

And do enjoyment make

In wisdom, Lord, you do

Make all things and renew

Creation to your glory points

Your land the dew anoints

 

On down overgrown way

'Tis public way, we may

Enter therein, but years gone by

Make difficult to try

To still follow the route

Attempt it we may moot

But changed since forty years ago

O'erburdened with hedgerow

 

Nostalgia, reminisce

Of days gone by, but this

Needs be our aim, to onwards go

More of our Lord to know

Whether good days or bad

The past times we have had

Now pressing on with Christ the Son

Until life's journey done

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: January 14th, 2019 03:18
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 6.6.8.6. 6.6.8.6. metre, based on a country walk recently, and near part of an area where we used to live.
  • Category: Spiritual
  • Views: 26
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Comments4

  • Goldfinch60

    Walking with Nature reinforces our trust in God who made it so wonderful.

    • orchidee

      Thanks Gold. A somewhat brisk walk this season.

    • Neville

      Now this is much more up my street.. or bit o the country rather.. I live in the middle of nowhere and have no neighbours.. and I still cant get over the joy a wander makes me feel...nice one and not a swoon in sight...

      • orchidee

        Thanks Neville. Yes, though I tend to cut down a bit on walks this season.

        • Neville

          my pleasure..

        • Michael Edwards

          Are you cutting down on swoons as well as walks Orchi? Enjoyed this read.

          • orchidee

            Thanks Michael. I didn't fall in the ravine. Well, hardly, but a strange walk under the tops of some trees in ditches on either sides of a track.
            (a former railway line). Yes, I'm trying to cut down on swoons, but it can't be helped - poets keep writing swoony lines, etc.

          • ANGELA & BRIAN

            Thanks UNCLE STEVE ~ CHWMC is one of our faves ! Love the POEM and the fact that you can discern the hand of GOD our CREATOR in every :
            Season ~ Tree ~ Bird ~ Bridle Path ~ Hedgrow & Babbling Brook : Our Lord God made them ALL ~ AMEN ! Thanks for sharing ~
            Love on Monday BRIAN & ANGELA 🧡🧡🧡🧡

            • orchidee

              Thanks B&A.



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