Well Pleased

I stare into the timeless sky
As an owl hoots in the woods nearby.
Snowflakes dance with the bare-limbed trees
On the whitened hillsides around the valley.
I listen to the winter wind
Whispering through the trees,
And at last begin to understand
Why God was well pleased.

By M. Lynell Chamberlain

(M. Lynell Chamberlain is a member of St. John Paul II Parish in Sellersburg.) †