Lent 2020 day 12

’But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.’ (Job 12:7-8)

Gideon Heugh writes:

The silence of the trees

There is a grace
that we cannot remember,
a peace that has passed
our understanding.
For who cares to listen
to the silence of the trees?
Who ventures out into the quiet
of their own soul?
Who in this age of deafening hurry
can find that gentle answer
hidden so wisely
in the heart of a spring flower?