When I first saw theword prompt this week you know what immediately popped into my head?
Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love
These words from the song Great is Thy Faithfulness. Before I knew it, I was mentally belting out all the words to this wonderful song. Kept me good company while I was doing bunny chores this morning. 🙂 Anyways, it lead to this poem All Summer Long.
All Summer Long
An interesting summer
It’s proving to be.
A part-time job
Keeping me rather busy.
A boy with arm
Broken in two
How will he manage?
What will he do?
A lesson is learned
Understanding gained.
No wonder why mom
and his dad complained!
Couple years back
Limbs broken did.
A bike accident
and a saved kid.
I mentioned to lad
the providence of God.
Mom took a fall
It was rather odd.
But that meant
She was home
When with broken arm
he did roam.
And with a
just fixed truck
to take him as speedily
as a flying duck!
No need to ponder
what do I do?
Mom has it in hand
so I can boo-hoo.
Mom could be there
to just walk him through
Procedures and waiting
in emergency room.
As I sit here and ponder
I see it full well
how all summer long
How God in me dwells.
He knows all the plans
and thinking we do,
He knows how to work
His good will in me too.
Scripture Insight?
Proverbs 15:3 – The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good.
Deuteronomy 32:10 – In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye.
Psalm 121:8 – The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
Everytime I think back to that night I am amazed at how God worked everything out for him.
Hubby had struggled to get the truck fixed, and while it wasn’t perfect, it was legally drivable. I had walked my route 1000’s of times and never stumbled there, and yet that day, I took a hard fall. My knee was rather stiff but was able to function. I had just come in from doing the rabbits and was sitting down to work when in stumbled my white faced boy and his wonky arm.
Could he have coped without me? YES. I have a level-headed young man in this house.
But a boy who loves efficiency, had to admit that God had this one well in hand. You couldn’t have asked for a more speedy response with no need for him to problem-solve. I’ll remember this God-moment, all summer long and beyond I think.
Isn’t God marvellous?
Now I will be singing, “Great is Thy Faithfulness” all day too, Annette. I’m so glad you were able to help your son through his trial of a broken arm. We experienced a broken arm one summer many years ago and as you said, it was a lesson learned.
~Lisa, FMF #8
so many lessons that can be learned from an injury
I like how you can see a thread of God’s watch over it all.
i thought it was most excellent how God planned it all out (suffering not withstanding)
How neat to look back and see how God had worked all those things together for your good – and for the lad’s good too. God provides. Love that old hymn and its timeless truth!
it is a lovely hymn isn’t it? Needs to be sung more often in this day of praise and worship music…
Wow! Wishing you and your boy speedy recoveries.
P.S. Love that old hymn, which I’m now singing in my head as well.
fantastic! 🙂