Silent Sentinels

SILENT SENTINELS

10/9/11

Trees: the pines, the pine oaks, all of them

standing there like silent sentinels

watching over God’s domain.

Stars over their heads

and mother earth below their feet,

everywhere I look this day,

I see God!

Above in the heavens so bright

with stars bursting out everywhere.

The three dogs sniffing at things,

I know not what.

Their sense of smell is so much more blessed than mine.

They tug at their leashes pulling me this way and that.

When Skeeter, my cat,

appears out of nowhere once again,

follows us for awhile she does.

She likes to drop by and say hi

then she’s on her way.

I don’t even know when she’s slipped away.

Off into the darkness from which she came.

But we are all wandering in God’s domain,

soaking it in at the start of another glorious day.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

All My Love Always, Keith