"...In
the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering
that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after
that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the
Providence and Power of GOD, which has never since been effaced from
his soul.”--Brother Lawrence, writing of his conversion experience
at age 18 in a book entitled “Practicing the Presence of God.”
As
I grow older
I
must grow simpler
like
a branch stripped of leaves
by
indifferent winds
until
I can see quite clearly
as
Brother Lawrence did
on
that frozen day in March
when
You revealed Your presence
not
in fire, but in ice,
not
in glory, but in a leafless tree
Your
Word made
all
too fragile flesh
quaking
and thankful
just
to be alive.
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