Poetry in motion       בתנועה שירה

shiyrah, poez’yah,

piyut piyutiyut,  shiyr, poetiykah God’s poem/God’s song   האלים שיר

  שיר  האלים

שיר   song – sheer, zemer

The dictionary definition of Poetry describes it as a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

 Adonai/God/Hashem/Our Heavenly Father’s poem/song is His living breathing creation in perpetual motion which declares the very rhythm of Him who is life itself, in all its exquisite aesthetic qualities of patterns, colours, shapes and sounds.(guazu-falls)

שירה poetry, singing – shira

Psalm 145:10 the Scriptures declare that all creation is God’s work.

shir hashalom shel Elohim

Gods song of peace 

  שיר השלום של אלוהי

His handiwork 

In motion בתנועה

תנועה – motion

noun: t’nuah, niyah, t’zuzah; vkshh mshftyt

verb: imen, hech’evah, otet  

ידות מעשה   

Mitzpe Yadot      

Measurements are made

(as in creating, building and forming of matter.)

 The Extraordinary Iridescent Details of Peacock Feathers 

In Greek the word is ‘poema’, this is where we get our word poem. Poetry (from the Greek, ‘poiesis’, a ‘making’ or ‘creating’)

 and in the Hebrew

song, poem – shir

פּוֹאֶמָה   שיר

poemah   shiyr

So in one sense He is the poet of the universe.

         The poem of our existence was written by Him in the very fabric of our environment which is His creation. Our lives are the stanzas. His love for us and ours for Him are the elements of each rhyming iambic pentameter that echoes grace, mercy and loving kindness with every heart beat. The Hebrew for work is:  מְלָאכָה

‘melachah’ meaning ‘work’ Strong’s 4399  

 m’lekhet yad   יָד מְלֶאכֶת (they come in pink and green)

  The universe IS the poem, the song of God, created with every intention for our lives to be a work of beauty.

A beauty which can be found only by ‘knowing Him’, not in our own efforts. The poet of existence and of life itself. In whose love, your life can become not a dream but a poem of the living God, that will reflect the Life of Jesus/Yeshua in and through us. So we don’t need to strive to produce dead works, rather focus on living and as we are changed, we are ‘becoming His work’, His poem, His song, His Shir /Shiyr/שיר  A butterfly wing in macro detail.

 Pious, piety: Elohay Chasdi = God of my kindness to men or piety. (Ps 59:11) Resignation to the will of God is the whole of piety. We have twisted the meaning to being religious, starchy, narrow and unyielding it is applied to monasteries of reclusive monks and nuns. It is not an adjective we readily apply to ourselves but the real meaning is that it includes in it all that is good and is a source of the most settled quiet and composure of mind. Our resignation to the will of God may be said to be mature and perfect/complete when our will is resolved up into His and when we are resting in His will as our ultimate end and destiny in Him as being most just and right and good. It leads to the fullness of the kingdom of God within us as righteousness peace and joy in the Ruach Ha Kodesh.

Piety – אדיקות  

ש”ע)   דתיות ; תאדיקו )

דָּתִיּוּת   דְּבֵקוּת,   אֲדִיקוּת,

diykut, d’vekut, datiyut

In spiritual terminology, piety   אדיקות is a virtue. While people may understand its meaning differently, it is generally used to refer either to religious devotion or to spirituality, or often, a combination of both. A common element in most conceptions of piety is humility. An attitude of a repentant heart.(patterns are everywhere)

We are all called to put the ‘extra’ into ‘ordinary’.

For Jesus Himself said ‘greater works these will you do’.

Glass wing butterfly

Wings and tiny details, diverse and unique. The tensile capacity of a single strand of a spiders web, is greater in proportion than the strongest steel mankind can create from Earth’s rocks and elements. We need to see things from God’s perspective for He exists outside of our space-time continuum. He is not bound by our physical laws of light and gravity. He doesn’t need air to breathe or light to see. He is spirit and He is life itself in a capacity that we are yet to comprehend. His scripture tells us, when we see Him we shall be like Him. And the things of this life on Earth will grow very dim in the light of His glory and grace.

(Tiger eye or butterfly?)

The infinite diversity on this planet is incalculable. New species are still being identified every year. Macro feather detail of a House finch

With an untold billions of stars like our Sun with planets orbiting them we are but a speck in the cosmos and yet every hair of our head is numbered. Each soul is precious to the Lord. He came to seek and to save the lost. Luke 19:10

For the sole purpose of spending eternity together with us.

Jesus said if you have seen Me then you have seen the Father, I and the Father are one. We can see Him also in His creation everywhere around us if we will take the time to look.We all see God every day… sometimes, we just don’t recognize Him…We have heard it said that the devil is in the details. However it was the Lord who created the details in the first place. The devil has never been the original creator of anything, he just steals what was Gods and perverts it to aid his own evil schemes to deceive and destroy.Beauty in the eye of the beholder Hashem our creator GodIn Hebrew, every Hebrew prayer begins with this statement

Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu Melech Ha Olam

Blessed are you O Lord my God King of the Universe.

It helps to remind us that He is the Creator of all things .

 Bereshit b’reshiyt – רֵאשִׁיתב – In the Beginning

Bet  ב . the pictogram indicates the house of the sign, the mark of creation. Creation itself is a house built by the Creator. The house itself is a sign

House as in ‘dwelling place’.

  Within the earliest Jewish traditions groups of scholars counted the number of times each letter appeared in the scriptures, (as well as the number of words verses paragraphs etc). These textual specialists were called Soferim (counters). The soferim ensured that Torah scrolls and the other books of the Tenakh (Old Testament), were identical, noting any unusual words or spellings and replicating them exactly through their scribal arts. Many Jews believe that Ezra the scribe instituted many of the practices of the Soferim. In this verse we are told that the heavens are ‘recounting’ the glory of God

The word mesaperim (are recounting), comes from the same Hebrew root as does soferim.

Every detail of the universe from great cosmic events to the bloom of a lily in the field recounts the glory of God

and is carefully written in His book, m’aseh vereshit – the works of creation.

Parallel to this idea the heavenly expanse raki’a is ‘telling’ of the work of God’s hands.The Hebrew word maggid means to explain or declare something in a conspicuous or obvious way, such as plainly telling the solution of a riddle. In Jewish tradition, the part of the Passover seder where the story of the Exodus from Egypt is clearly explained to the children at the table is called the maggid. Just as the order, precision, and enormous complexity of the physical universe reveals the glory and excellencies of the creator, so the vast heavenly expanse conspicuously displays the work of God’s hands. And though mankind may suppress this constant narrative through willful ignorance, they are forever without excuse, “for what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For the invisible attributes of God, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, are clearly perceived in the things that have been made”. Rom 1:18-20Included are just a very small selection of creatures that we never normally see…(Giraffe Necked Weevil)

because its too small for our eyes to focus on, or too deep in the ocean,or too high in the sky.What’s out of reach to us is all part of His creation whether we know its there or not . Why make creatures of such great beautyand intricacies that no human has ever seen?Some only visible just recently with the help of science and technology.

Because His nature is LIFE and to create it.

Some macro photos of wings, feathers and sea life have no names, titles or description. Just simply focus on the images and their immeasurable and amazing display of colour and intelligent design, that in most cases will never be seen by human eyes and if so, only by way of photographs and still… He made them all. We have a truly omniscient Father who made all things for the praise of His glory just because He could. He formed everything to interact with a symbiotic harmony; played out in a rich and all encompassing symphony. Our world is a cacophony of sounds and a plethora of colors; mixed with love on a never ending palette that stretches beyond visible horizons. Everything continually expressing His creative nature both in the heavens above and upon this beautiful earth, our truly spectacular and infinitely diverse planet on which we live and call home. Hummingbirds are the smallest birds on the planet. A penny weighs 2.5 grams, and a hummingbird can weigh anywhere between 2 and 20 grams.

Psalm 19:1-4 The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their utterances to the end of the world.

 As you look at the images and think about God’s creation:
(Pillars of the Carina Nebula.)

the heavens, the earth, the processes of life and nature, and every living thing, let Him fill you with such an overwhelming love for all that He is and all that He has done and is yet to do.So we can share more enthusiastically and effectively with those who have not heard, for He is love,as these pictures surely show!

‘For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works’. This verse is not recommending that we project good works as an image by self elevation, created out of pride and ambition.Not boasting of personal achievements and physical prowess and ‘movie star’ qualities out of our own talents, abilities and looks without God.

We congratulate ourselves on graduation from schools colleges and universities, many having yoked ourselves to a financial burden for the privilege, when we can study His word for free and yet we hardly give that subject of learning a second thought.
(Petrified dunes)

Get wisdom and get understanding, everything we need to live a successful life for the Lord is contained within the pages of One book.At times it appears our society is upside down for we are not taught to put God and His Word first place and are left wondering why we have problems. He needs to be the center of all we do, the pivot point for our life and nothing less. Our beauty comes from within, from His indwelling presence. The more we spend time in His presence the more we will radiate His glory outwards into the world.Ephesians 2:10 … we are not to be ‘strutting our stuff’ like peacocks, but to work, as the days grow darker we need to ‘bee’about our Father’s business. 

Psalm 145:9 because the Lord is good to all and His compassion is over all His works, all your works will praise you Lord and your pious ones will bless you.

The words of the well known hymn, ‘How great thou art’, bids us to consider all the works His hands have made.

After looking at the images above, the hymn written by Cecil Frances Alexander for children rings just as true today:  All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
 All things wise and wonderful; The Lord God made them all.   Each little flow’r that opens,

Each little bird that sings,
 He made their glowing colors,
He made their tiny wings.The purple-headed mountains,
 The river running by,
 The sunset and the morning
That brightens up the sky. The cold wind in the winter,
The pleasant summer sun,
 The ripe fruits in the garden,
 He made them every one. The tall trees in the greenwood,
 The meadows where we play,
 The rushes by the water,
 To gather every day. He gave us eyes to see them,
 And lips that we might tell
 How great is God Almighty,
 Who has made all things well.

(Matthew 18:3 – Let’s never lose that childlike wonder.)