Showing posts with label George Strait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Strait. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Surrender's Reward

 I am still a student of surrender's full fruit...the heart seems to be a stubborn leaner/learner...

With all the snow around here we begin feeling a sense of Christmas cheer!
Why not start early to celebrate mankind's joy to the world!


Choose joy; it makes life bearable
And wakes in us the miracle
That works in us a wonderful
Sustaining benefit
The wailing wind that rails and flails
And startles us with early gales
Inspires courage, fills hope's sails
With joy in spite of it

Choose joy; the kind that comes from trust
For what is man, but God-breathed dust
Dependent on His Perfect Must
From whence kind mercies brim
Then, come what may, of high or low
For all we cannot see or know
Joy grips the grace whereby we go
And leaves the rest to Him

Choose joy; for hearts are prone to fear
And though we groan with sorrow’s tear
Joy draws the God of Heaven near
And grants strength for the day
Where circumstance can be so mean
But God is bigger, though Unseen
And true joy is learning to lean
On He who knows/IS the way

© Janet Martin

  Though you have not seen him, you love him; 
and even though you do not see him now, 
you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 
for you are receiving the end result of your faith, 
the salvation of your souls. 
1 Pet.1:8-9

...and then surprise!
this little reminder from Ann Voskamp in her joy-quest!
 


 

Monday, November 26, 2018

No Jesus, No Joy...




Without kindness
Or compassion
Or remorse
Or forgiveness
Or sacrifice
Of putting others first
Dear boy
There is no fulfillment
No contentment
No peace of mind
No true happiness
No Jesus
No joy

© Janet Martin



Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. 
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

This is how God’s love was revealed among us: 
God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us 
and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, 
God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.
If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God

 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. 
God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him. 
1 John 4:7-16

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Love's Sense of Humour



 I often find myself using the first two lines in this song;
"I don't mind the thought of growing old,
I just don't want to lose my sense of humor"
(because He's and She's seem to retain ageless quirks and quaint idiosyncrasies;-))

This bowing and curtsying cuddle and fuss
First started by He and She and Her and Him
Vexes, befuddles and oh, muddles us
Perplexing word’s wittiest acronym

These Habits of Him and These Fancies of Her
Startles the finest of Mr. and Miss
Time's silly, common strangeness of humor
Is sometimes a sucker-punch, sometimes a kiss

Kindly distract Her, kind sir, with your laughter
Blindly attract Him, dear Her with your smile
Time forgets days; twixt its before and after
Starry-eyed dreamers and Life reconcile

…teaching the reach of touch-greedy young lovers
Of He and She, Him and Her, Ma’am and Sir
Since Time’s beginning how yet to recover
From love’s sense of humor birthed by Him and Her

© Janet Martin