Scots Church Adelaide - Uniting Church in Australia

The Sun Came Up

The sun came up this morning, Lord.  
There is air to breathe. 
This amazing, unlikely complexity which is me 
is still alive and feels 
and knows 
and wonders.

Great is your faithfulness, O God. 

Even if I have forgotten you 
even when I have ignored you 
and when I have deliberately disobeyed you 
there is still morning and evening another day. 
Truly, you are a God slow to anger.

Scripture says ‘Thou knowest me right well.' 
I know very little. 
The four eggs in the nest at my door 
have hatched into little bodies 
which could not possibly have fitted into so small a space. 
Pink, barely birdlike, almost devoid of down 
they grow daily feathers sprouting 
blind, beaks gaping trusting food will come.

You have breathed life into this mystery. 
The parents fly in with food 
even as other young across the world starve and die, 
or are abused beyond measure. 
And even here, the cat sits behind the glass watching,
wondering
waiting for an opportunity.
If one of these little ones should fall...

I know nothing, Lord except that you are faithful, 
for with the pain,
despite the unanswered questions,  
and in the face of despair 
there is joy. 
I am not left desolate 
for you touch me. 
Thank you God.

Photos © Rev Wendy Prior