Poem in the Night Sky

Someone scratched a comma in the sky tonight
but the rest of the sentence, they didn't write--
they just left it hanging there, glowing more bright
while the sunset faded out of sight.

I wonder if this Poet with a white pen didn't write
the rest, just to see what words we might fill on the right
and the left of that mark.

(Such a simple spark!)

Or maybe it's a message in itself to say,
"Wait,
Listen,
Take a break.
The world will be clear once again,
when you wake.

"And there's enough space up here to take
everything you daydream, everything you hate
your mistakes and everything you mistake for mistakes
everything you celebrate
or hide in your pockets, afraid you're too late."

And when is too late
for the One who recreates the night sky every night,
that great, dark weight of notebook paper
never filled and always full,
its depth so glassy, and ink so bright?

So, what will you write?

Praise be to the One
who scratched a comma in the sky tonight.

"This is what the LORD says"

In Old Testament class, we are reading the prophets, such as Hosea, Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah.  During this time I've been thinking of Jon Foreman's song "Instead of a Show," which is based on passages in Amos and Isaiah.

Also, when reading Jeremiah, I was astonished when I came across certain passages.  Here's one I'd like to share, from chapter 31:

"The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,"
declares the LORD.

"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time," declares the LORD.
"I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people.
No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,'
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,"
declares the LORD.

"For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more."