A Passing Wind

Snippet

The Wind Stirs the grasses                       

And the people return to their land

I have given you my shirt

Return home in strength 

(Winter Kill by Craig Lesley 1984 pg 85)

Scripture

But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. Genesis 8:1

Song

Seminole Wind John Anderson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k02XZelo0WM

Ever since the days of old,

Men would search for wealth untold.

They'd dig for silver and for gold,

And leave the empty holes.

And way down south in the Everglades,

Where the black water rolls and the saw grass waves.

The eagles fly and the otters play,

In the land of the Seminole.

So blow, blow Seminole wind,

Blow like you're never gonna blow again.

I'm calling to you like a long lost friend,

But I know who you are.

And blow, blow from the Okeechobee,

All the way up to Micanopy.

Blow across the home of the Seminole,

The alligators and the garr.

Progress came and took its toll,

And in the name of flood control,

They made their plans and they drained the land,

Now the glades are going dry.

And the last time I walked in the swamp,

I sat upon a Cypress stump,

I listened close and I heard the ghost,

Of Osceola cry.

So blow, blow Seminole wind,

Blow like you're never gonna blow again.

I'm calling to you like a long lost friend

But I know who you are.

And blow, blow from the Okeechobee,

All the way up to Micanopy.

Blow across the home of the Seminole,

The alligators and the garr.

Sentence Prayer

Father,

The bible tells us

You looked on all that you made

And saw it was good.

But we have been too willing

To squander the riches of creation.

We have laid the ax to the mighty forests

Despoiled the green hillsides

Wasted earth’s mineral wealth. 

We have fouled the air

Littered the countryside

And polluted the streams and oceans.

Voices are raised

To stop us from squandering our patrimony.

May we heed them in time so that one day

We can look on the planet you have give us

And say with pride, once again.

“Behold, it is good.”

Amen