“I like to focus on the fact that each new morning, or This Day as I call it, God’s mercies are new to me if I have eyes to see them. God provides all that I need each day, but some days it is hard to see.” –Roxane Risner, Fruit of the Vine

Query: What are you grateful for today?

What Dries Our Tears

It’s the day before catastrophe,

a perfect day, scrubbed with afternoon light,

purified for the party.

The revelers will remember this

when tomorrow’s sun is black

under the rain of death.

How quickly life shifts from weal to woe,

and all our platitudes explode beneath us.

Then, on the third day,

the sun erupts from bowels of earth

and dries our tears.

–Carol Bialock, Coral Castles