Showing posts with label Don Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don Williams. Show all posts

Monday, May 27, 2019

The Way Time Goes


They're in bloom...bleeding hearts; the flowers that look like our hearts sometimes feel
because that's what time does.




The way it keeps us on our toes and makes us wipe our eyes and nose
And takes all that we’ve got as we learn ‘that’s the way time goes’

The way it twirls us ‘round like leaves spiraling to the ground
While moments weave heart-harbored sheaves from fronds of sight and sound

The way it startles us with years as what we hold soon disappears
In tug of hug-wars as we bear the scars of smiles and tears

The way it reaches through our youth with manners both kind and uncouth
As it teaches time’s fundamental, unchangeable Truth

The way it wakes in us an urge, where past, present and future merge
In melodies that surge through us in sentimental dirge

© Janet Martin


It's the time when another school year has or is winding down and with it the startling
re-awareness of the fleetness of Time!

Saturday, March 17, 2018

The Perfect Motivator For Everything We Do


 Love is patient, love is kind. 
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, 
it is not easily angered, 
it keeps no account of wrongs.

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. 
As I have loved you, so also you must love one another.  
By this all men will know that you are My disciples, 
if you love one another.” 
John 13:34-35

What excellent persuasion
Motivates me and you
When love becomes the reason
For all we say and do

How soft a season scatters
The everyday of lives
Then tucks its tender tatters
Into Bygone’s archives

…and all that really matters
In daily here to there
Is what we did for others
To show we love and care

Then be not long despondent
When weary of its ‘ask
Love makes each role resplendent
Regardless of its task

…and makes most noble victors
From earth’s lowliest lot
If we live to love others
With everything we’ve got

With all that we can muster
Let's lift love's beacon high
And imitate Love's Author 
The Lord of earth and sky

© Janet Martin

 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, 
but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Mark 10:45

I often think of/listen to the song below, when someone passes on...

 

...and another beautiful 'love' song!



Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Heaped With Wonder


 Does this no-two-ways-about-it verse not heap your heart with wonder?!

"Come now, let us settle the matter," says the LORD.
"Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
Isa.1:18

 Nature's decorator has been busy creating wonder as well!




Barren sweep is heaped with wonder
Nature’s decorator wins
With a wash of soft white plunder
Earth is festooned for Her King

Barren deep is heaped with gladness
Mercy’s mediator wins
White as snow redemption’s promise
Prepares hearts to meet Their King

Barren hills are filled with worship
Barren will reborn through Him
Like a barren earth replenished
With the beauty of the King 

Sing a song of purest wonder
Like the snow, grace covers sin
Turn your heart into a manger
Humbly holding Christ the King


© Janet Martin


Tuesday, April 26, 2016

People-Poetry



PAD Challenge day 26: For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:
  • Write a love poem. Or…
  • Write an anti-love poem. 



 One of the songs/singer we fell in love with and to...
and still do;-)


He loves politics,     She, poetry
He, a nice goal,         She, a dusk
stroll, He, cheese burger and
fries She, a picnic paradise
Beneath bottomless skies
He loves her and she
loves he, It’s an
opposites attract
Kind of
poet-
ry

© Janet Martin

'How did you two ever get together?' our now-older kids sometimes ask, our differences obvious...
We look at each other,
wink, and tell them
'it was love at first sight'




Monday, February 2, 2015

Salted Stillness






It is quiet
Save for the gale
That rattles the doors
As it sweeps ‘cross the dale

It is quiet
Save for the pall
That weighs down the air
Like a misty night-fall

It is quiet
Save for the ache
As elements tremble
Where Sea-hawk hearts break

It is quiet
Save for the tear
That shatters the stillness
Where Patriot fans cheer

© Janet Martin

Disappointed Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, center, and Seahawks safety Earl Thomas (29) walk off the field  at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., on Sunday after losing the Super Bowl to the New England Patriots. The final score was 28-24 after the Seahawks fell 1 yard short of scoring a go-ahead touchdown in the last minute of the game.

Seattle Seahawks
NFL Super Bowl XLIX
Final - yesterday, 6:30 PM
University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Arizona
New England
Patriots
(15-4)
28
Seattle
Seahawks
(14-5)
24