Dialogue in the Wilderness

Dialogue in the Wilderness

Sun-bleach, and salty tides too,

Now bone-white, mere skeletons of trees,

Green no more – but see how they reach!

They speak like prophets in dialogue

even in the wilderness, even in the barrenness,

a prayer heard, that cannot fail.

Hab 3:16  I hear, and my body trembles; at the sound, my lips quiver. Decay invades my bones, my legs tremble beneath me. I await the day of distress that will come upon the people who attack us.Hab 3:17  For though the fig tree blossom not...