Points to Ponder
Poetry and Prose to Challenge the Mind and Heart
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OUR AMAZING WORLD
Let’s take A MOMENT TO PONDER
God’s amazing ability
To plan in minutest detail
All that we know to be!
He formed and nurtures the earth
(In the universe, a planet so small),
Suspend in space, with sun and moon,
Of His creations, more cherished than all!
He decked it with flora and fauna
And treasures within its veins,
Forming mountains and sand-filled deserts,
All the hills and treeless plains.
His master mind planned each plant and flower,
Each petal and leaf and hue…
Each with its fragrance and pow’r to delight –
Watered by the morning dew!
Each insect and bug, big or small,
Has built-in guidance to survive…
And each abides in a unique home,
Whether tree or cave or hive.
And myriads of animals, with traits unique…
Each knows its young how to raise!
To migrate or spawn or hibernate…
Their knowledge never ceases to amaze!
The lightning, thunder, rain and snow –
The rivers, the oceans, the brooks…
There’s water for all living creatures,
Nature’s food wherever one looks.
The sun does not burn up its inhabitants
Nor are they frozen with the cold…
God has placed the earth the right distance away
So each season systematically unfolds.
No mortal man could have ever planned
An environment so perfect for all…
How great the mind of an omnipotent God
To create all these things great and small!
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Do you know what you Believe?
How do you know if you are right?
What should be the final test?
AS YOU READ MY POEMS
You‘re my "audience of one."
I hope to hold you captive
From the moment you‘ve begun.
But, alas, it‘s for you to decide
If staying is worth your while.
Will you decide I bore you
Or will you like my style?
Perhaps the subjects covered
Will draw you back again,
Curious to see what truths I see
In the rhymes that I have penned.
These are but lessons I have learned,
Many that I feel should not be spurned.
You may applaud or disagree,
And, without repercussion, take issue with me.
I beg you to enter with an open mind,
Taking time to think through and digest.
Discard what, to you, does not apply
But linger o‘er what you deem best.
And, if there‘s but one you can pass along ,
‘Twill serve to fill my heart with song.
About the Author
Elizabeth Pearson is 77 and has written poetry since her youth (over 400 in this volume). She attended Wheaton (IL) College 3 years and after working as a secretary at Sears Midwest Territorial Office in Chicago, she married and raised a family of two boys and a girl. She has five grandchildren. She returned to college after 18 years, to earn a BS in elementary education at age 42, taught for 18 years (3rd, then 2nd grade) in Elmhurst, IL for 18 years and earned her MS at Northern Illinois U. when 50.