July 20, 2011 Wednesday: 16th Week in Ordinary Time (A)
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Morning Gift
Don't you love the mornings
When you go outside,
And there on the ground
Is a fresh, perfect, green leaf?
A leaf, floated from the
Quiet summer trees,
Just resting on the grass, and
waiting to be discovered.
Touch the treasure, and
Pick it up gently, then
Feel all the excitement of
A new leaf, with no tears,
No marks, no holes.
It is a sign of healing and future.
Don't you just love the mornings
When you are reminded of
The special gifts of life?
June 1999
Morning Gift
Don't you love the mornings
When you go outside,
And there on the ground
Is a fresh, perfect, green leaf?
A leaf, floated from the
Quiet summer trees,
Just resting on the grass, and
waiting to be discovered.
Touch the treasure, and
Pick it up gently, then
Feel all the excitement of
A new leaf, with no tears,
No marks, no holes.
It is a sign of healing and future.
Don't you just love the mornings
When you are reminded of
The special gifts of life?
June 1999
From Hope Through Heart Songs by Mattie Stepanek
Mattie Stepanek (July 17, 1990 – June 22, 2004) has been writing poetry and short stories since age three. A Catholic, Stepanek suffered from a rare form of muscular dystrophy, dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy that resulted in his death a month before his 14th birthday. His sister and two brothers also died from the disease during early childhood, and his mother has the adult form, diagnosed only after all four of her children were born.
