God Behind the Scenes

I am hard on Bibles.  I have to replace them every 2 or 3 years.  But it is always hard for me to retire the dog-earred, notated, broken-spined, underlined, highlighted one.  So, for awhile, I only carry the new one with me, but use them both when I study at home.  A familiar Bible is like a security blanket to me.

A friend had shared with me a poem learned in childhood and recited before family meals.  I thought it was so sweet that I copied it down to remember it, but things get lost, misplaced, deleted, inadvertantly discarded and I couldn't find it when I looked for it recently.
I wanted the poem because I was trying to explain to some children how God is behind every detail of creation--even the things we take credit for granted.  He is both the Creator and the sustainer of the universe.

Hebrews 1:2,3
"...but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, and through whom he also made the universe.  The Son is the radience of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word."

I wanted to explain to some little ones that even the things we invent or manufacture depend on God behind the scenes supplying the raw materials and holding this vast universe in perfect balance to keep us alive (sustained) and able to experience our own fulfilling creativity.

So, I was leafing through my new Bible and found that I had not lost the little poem.  I had copied it onto a blank back page.  Here it is:

Back of the loaf the snowy flour,
      back of the flour, the mill;
Back of the mill is the wheat and shower,
      the sun and the Father's will.
                                             Amen