01/12/07

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Book Jacket

Seen and Unseen

By Marta Berg

Copyright 1991

Dedication

This book is dedicated to Bill, my husband, for letting me share his full and significant life of ministry and caring, and to our children and their children:

Marcia and Paul, Steve and Karen

Anne and J.Paul, Jon, Jeff and Katie

Bill and Karen, William and Benjamin

Each one bringing an overflowing measure of joy to my life.

Contents

I Listened to People Going by and I Heard About –

            Seeing

            Yielded Trust

            A Grand Opening

            Freedom

            A Promise

            A Coin

            Change

            Falling Leaf

I Thought About Children I Have Known and from Them I Learned About –

            A Grandmother’s Gift

            An Encounter

            Declarations of Love

            Small Wisdom

            Separation

            Beat of Drum

I Looked Out the Window and I Saw –

            A Nuthatch      

            A Singing Bird

            Five Birds

            Starlings

            A Squirrel

            Two Robins

            A Blue Jay

            Winter’s Squirrel

            A Second Nuthatch

I Asked a Question and I Received an Answer About –

            A Word

            The Sighted

            Home

            Skepticism

            Theft

            Refuge

            Another Step

            Longing

            Surely

            Death

Preface

In our fragile world, so full of images and happenings, most events are experienced only at shallow depth. We see, but we do not see.

These words are written with the hope that they will remind us to probe for the deeper truth – the truth that often lies hidden in all the ordinary – the truth that enables us to live at the level of the extraordinary and that helps us to see our common life in uncommon ways.

Book Jacket

Marta Berg’s book of narrative verse is a dramatic sharing of truth – Truth that lies in the discovery of the masterpiece in which we live – and its Creator.

In the antics of a nuthatch and in the copper-colored leaves that fall, the mysterious design of life is revealed. We see our human existence reflected in the moods of nature.