Weathering

Weathering

Luci Shaw

A long day, profligate with rain,
followed by a crystalline night and
a prodigality of stars.
Such a spendthrift God we have

who gave us all this. Who also
spread, with his large hand, rosy
streaks of light over this morning’s
cloud heaven and hilltop!

Doesn’t your breath sometimes quicken
at such magnificence, like a wave
cresting? And then, the astonishment
that you can tell it out,

can share it all with your friend, 
generous as sunlight through the morning
window, specific as the gleam of
a gold wedding ring on your finger.

How else can you hold on to all
the world-loveliness but by pinning it
in print on paper, feasting on it, then
free of charge, in the company of friends?

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Luci Shaw
Poet & Editor

Luci was the co-founder and later president of Harold Shaw Publishers, and since 1988 has been a Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. She is a charter member of the Chrysostom Society of Writers, and is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry including Angels Everywhere, The Generosity, Eye of the Beholder & Sea Glass: New & Selected Poems (WordFarm, 2016). Shaw has also authored several non-fiction prose books, including Water My Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life (Zondervan) and The Crime of Living Cautiously (InterVarsity).

Photography by Jonny Gios