His Compassions Fail Not
Lamentations 3:22Kitchen
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The hour before anyone else is awake
From the far side of the counter it is a slope of standing grain, pale gold, bending a little where the wind went through in the night. A ridge behind it. The sky above the ridge has turned from grey to something warmer, and the warmth has not reached the field yet.
Down near the path there is a lamp, and someone has put it out. Nothing else happens. It stays like that all day, which is the point: you look up from the sink at four in the afternoon and it is still the beginning of something. It gives the kitchen an hour that does not run out.
People read it differently. One friend sees a field that stood all night and is still standing, which she says is more or less her year. Another sees only the lamp, put out because the light came. Your sister sees the quiet hour before anyone else is awake and asks where you found it. Nobody needs it explained, and the room looks considered, which you did not expect from a picture of a field.
The light is one field away
I keep going back to the edge of the ridge, where the light is thin and has not come down the slope yet. The grain stands in the last of the blue, every head upright, holding the shape the dark left. Down on the path a small lamp is already out. Somebody walked by and decided it was not needed.
What I keep looking at is the step the light has not taken yet. It is one field away. My hope is that whoever stands here with a cup in her hand gets that same unhurried minute, the one where nothing has begun and everything is about to, and that the room keeps it for her until she is ready.
Two women, the same six a.m.
One buys it for herself, in the first week of a new routine. She let the early mornings go for a month, a wilderness season she does not say much about, and now the alarm is set again and reading through the year is her morning routine. She wants the wall beside the clock to agree with her about that.
The other buys it for a friend from Bible study, the one who says it is as much a support group as a Bible study. On the card she writes the sentence she has been meaning to say out loud for a while: I hope you see the new mercies of Christ every single morning.
It hangs in the kitchen, on the small wall beside the clock, where you stand to pour the coffee.
What comes out of the tube or the box
- 170 gsm matte paper Uncoated, printed to its edges, no frame. No shine under a kitchen light.
- 12 mm black wood frame Flat square profile, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, matte, plexiglass front, no mat, on 170 gsm coated silk paper.
- Three sizes 30x40, 45x60 and 60x80 cm (12x16, 18x24, 24x32 in). 45x60 is the one that suits the wall beside a clock.
What people ask before it goes up
1.What bible verse is good for a kitchen wall?
2.What does his mercies are new every morning mean?
3.What art works on a small kitchen wall beside the clock?
4.Is this a good gift for a friend starting a new morning routine?
Tomorrow the kettle goes on at six either way
Three sizes, framed or unframed, so the field is up beside the clock before the next early morning.
