A New View

My eyes have seen such beauty

I have pictures of these views

of lakes and mountains framed in ferns all summer long

and then in white when winter sweeps its crystal whiteness there

I have albums full of baby faces — laughing, sleeping, lashes long

for life has beauty everywhere
But all of these cannot compare to what is finally in view...

My pictures missed a color

never mixed on a palette

I've missed a shape no bended branch has ever sketched

I'd never before seen this depth, nor height

nor sheer intensity of Light

nor anything like this new sky:

Jesus, you have caught my eye.

— Hettie Brittz (May 2010)

Posted with permission.