Striations Throughout My Day

All around me bone names float

       Other students memorizing for tests.

I sit hunched coloring

       muscle tissues and tendons.

I color them striated

       like real.

My packet is big, all the muscles

       I keep coloring because I not even close to finishing.

So many muscles all specialized

       I wonder...

I remember that I'm coloring God's creation

       It takes me so long to color this thing that He has made.

And mine is just a paper copy

       His real, live.

I feel amazed at this thing of His.

All around me students flock

      I walk against the current.

But I listen

      I always listen because they talk as they walk.

They pour out hurt, hatred

      So I smile at them as they talk and walk.

One by one, they began to smile back 

      and as I look up thankful...

I notice the striations

      striations like the ones in muscle tissue.

They were God made striations

       streaks of clouds in the clear blue sky.

And again, I feel amazed at these things of His!