Showing posts with label Mercy Me. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mercy Me. Show all posts

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Endless Good aka Everlasting Love

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying:
 “I have loved you with an everlasting love; 
I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.
Jer.31:3

Everlasting; adj. 
infinite, never-ending, eternal, immortal, abiding, perpetual, timeless, unending, enduring

How heartbreaking to  never move beyond the point of seeing God
simply as a kill-joy and rule giver, though we all want and need love
How pitiful/terrible is the belief in the existence of Him
without the joy of the love from and for Him!!


(I've shared this song many times because I love it so much)



From He who does not shift or change His everlasting love
Receive the endless good in which unbelief has no part

…and pray the Lord, for love’s increase, the greatest gift He grants
Is like a glorious masterpiece in every circumstance
To anchor faith and hope, so doubt does not cause us to be

Oh, what a precious family is the family of God
Whose trust is not in what we see but in His faithful word
His promises more dear than anything this world can boast
Like a wellspring of endless good unto the uttermost

For every good and perfect gift comes down from up above
And nothing can deplete the measure of love’s treasure trove
Where, as the love of God becomes alive in you and I
His joy is like a fountain that no sorrow can run dry

…no matter what befalls, love bears us up to bear all things
Christ in us makes love able to suffer all that life brings
Then, though we do not know what waits, Love none can comprehend
Through He who WAS, IS and WILL BE is faithful without end





Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Life Goes On

A few weeks ago we attended the wedding of my neice.
 She married our lifelong neighbour's son!
At the wedding hubby and I chatted for a little while with the groom's uncle
 (age 63) who moved to Manitoba years ago and raised his family there.
He encouraged me to make/take the time to go with Jim/hubby sometimes
because we just never know what life can bring.
Since that conversation 3+ weeks ago Jim has met him completely unexpectedly (twice!)
as he drove through Manitoba.
Suddenly a truck pulled alongside his truck and a man with a friendly smile
and honk waved as he went by. It was Ken Weber!
Yesterday he passed away suddenly due to a heart attack!

A few days ago a this community was rocked by the death of a young woman
 killed in an awful traffic accident, leaving us asking,
(after coming through a sorrow-stricken October)
 who/what next?!!

 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death,
 so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.…
1 Thess. 4:13-14 

This song was played the other Sunday for our 'hurting bad' church family
as we mourn the sudden loss of a few of its members...

because, life goes on!

Life goes on
The holes where loss
Leaves gaping wounds
Ah, who can fill?
Where Death
(That Ruthless Random Beast)
With precise aim
Is never still

Life goes on:
Worlds rocked anew
With Grief’s insistent
Unforeseen
Where all we knew
Cannot return
To be the way
That it had been

Death’s sickle swings
Ah, who is next
To fall beneath its
Binding blade
Where love, ah love
Will suffer long
The aftermath
Of parting’s trade

Where life goes on
In spite of Death
(Though much is taken
Much remains)
To stir our hearts
And steal our Breath
As Hope in God
Alone sustains

Life goes on;
It eddies, swirls
Where love and sorrow
Ache and brim
As love of God
Kindly consoles
And fills the holes
With hope in Him


© Janet Martin


Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Metronome of Mercy!


 I need to listen to this song on a regular basis; it keeps me grounded!

 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom.8:35-39

How kind, the promises of God
His Word consoles our dread with cheer
Unknown is not a cruel rod
Nor does it paralyze with fear
Because we sense His presence near

How faithful is the Word of He
Who never leaves us or forsakes
But honors love’s humility
And grants exactly what it takes
To see us through life’s groans and aches

How perfect are the ways of He
Whose love no thought can comprehend
Or fathom with mortality
That without Beginning or End
With which each soul will soon contend

How righteous is the will of God
In spite of what we understand
Our numbered days on earthy sod
Are but the Throughway to a Land
Beyond time’s sorrow-stricken strand

How Changeless is the hand of He
Who rules this scope of day and night
Who was, IS and will ever be
The one true God of Hope and light
And after death, eternal life

How endless is I AM, then pray
For ears to hear and eyes to see
So we may find The Only Way
From death to life eternally
Through He who died for you and me

© Janet Martin





Tuesday, June 27, 2017

With Providential Approval and Dave Update





 Photo Scripture reference; Psalm 147:8-11


Inherent seed
Of pride and greed
Of selfishness and lusting
Suffers the rod
Of loving God
So we may learn to trust Him

We, prone to sin
The Lord doth win
Not where green pasture pleases
But in life’s storm
We seek the Arm
Of He who never leaves us

And though the ‘why’
May birth our cry
To Him; His love so tender
Lifts, as we bow
Within the ‘How’
The heart of meek surrender

The broken ‘me’
Begins to see
How utter our reliance
How all we have
The good Lord gave
Love rebukes our defiance

Misunderstood,
God works all things together
He does not change
His love the same
In fair or foulest weather

Inherent seed
Of pride and greed
Would be our certain ruin
God, rich in love
Gently approves
What draws us nearer to Him



© Janet Martin


I know I've posted this song on numerous posts but it is such a beaut!



Thank-you for the continued flood of support for the family through kind words, thoughts and prayers; thank-you for 'traveling' with us!

Here is last night's and this morning's update from Dave's wife Karen:

Hi Everyone
Today we had some good things happen, and some parts were rough.
He had a rough night- while I got a good much needed sleep, he had a long coughing spell . When I come in this morning he didn’t look himself. The Dr. come in and said Dave you don’t look so good, so the Dr. is changing his pain meds again. The Dr. informs me of his break; He broke all his left ribs but not just once, he did multiple times. Dave has some ribs that are just floating. They are to heal up, but floating makes it worse. Told Dave he needs to get moving to get his lungs goings. Cough every hr to make sure that he doesn’t get infection in the lungs.
By noon when they came in to try and get him sitting again on the side of the bed, they actually got him standing. My tears were flowing. It was so amazing to see. He did a great job.
He was good until later in the evening, then he had more pain again and had another one of his coughing spells. Those are so hard on him, so painful.
I stayed with him until he had all the phlegm coughed up and then I went home when he was resting. He said it is OK for me to go home and get some sleep; He will let me know if there is time I need to stay again. (Makes it so much easier on me when I know he is fine with me going home) He cares for me even when he is there in so much pain.
It is just so hard because he just can’t do anything himself. Can't use his left side and his right arm just doesn't work right! The nurses are great but they have so many more patients to look after they can't always be there when he needs them.
Krista is able to take me in the morning when she goes to work so I am able to be there by 8 and that way I am there to see his Dr. and help him with the morning things.
They are hoping in a day or so the tube in his lungs can be removed. He still has the oxygen because his breathing is hard when he moves.

This morning;
 Just called down and the nurse said last night he got his best rest so far, no coughing spells in the night and he rested nicely.