[the wastefulness of creation]

Three Ridges Trail
April 23, 2011

(these pictures are for you, laura)

and it was clear,
out there in the fog
with the trees towering over us,
that God's sanctuary is not made
with human hands,
but rather through the Word,
in whom dwells all the goodness and majesty and holiness
of God the Father.
We had walked into one of those held-together places
where the beauty of creation
held up a mirror to the One
at the right hand of God.


Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Colossians 3:1