Grateful (God Is My Rock) Poem by Julie A Smith

This poem was written on 1/4/13. It is inspired by my grateful awareness of God. I know that if God watches over and cares about the sparrow, then He watches over and cares about me. We all matter to God. I do not think life is meaningless or that everything is an accident or fully explained by the theory of evolution. I believe in God and in creation and in divine things.

Also, on a completely different note, my Mom was a postal carrier for almost my entire life. I have an overwhelming respect for the trials that postal carriers go through, from dog bites, to falls, to dealing with weather elements like ice and snow. Thus, when referencing the Pony Express, I am not trying to be unkind, but rather I am expressing a frustration with the apparent unreliability and slowness of the U.S. postal service regarding one specific situation (i.e. delivery of my bill that should not have been late) . However, perhaps the fault does not lie with the U.S. postal service. Currently it is a mystery.