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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Prelude to the Awakening



Whoa!! 

The morning dissolved in errands that started at sun-up, 


then to a batch of bread...


a pan of granola bars


(recipe note: substitute dried cranberries with  any dried fruit, or chipits)
and if I don't have barley flakes I substitute quick oats and ground flax seed


...also, speaking from experience, the 20 min. cool time is optional if you want a sample sooner😀





and the whole morning had intermittent explosions/interruptions of harmonica music 
(my new toy thanks to some Christmas gift$$$ 
and an invitation to play for the kids at church on Sunday)!


Hello, heaven’s halo gleaming 
From a vault unplumbed, unfurled 
Like a fount of sequins streaming 
Through Want’s dreaming, scheming world 
Where progression and tradition 
Engage in clashing ideals 
Locking horns in opposition 
While time spins and thins its wheels 

Hello morning, Mercy’s token 
Fixed where every eye can see 
God has spoken, darkness broken 
By Ageless Authority 
He bestows gracious oblation 
Dawn throbs with love’s melody 
Pouring like an invitation 
Beckoning ‘come unto Me’ 

Hello, hope and heartache tango 
Teaching us the art of trust 
How to hold and how to let go 
In this dance of dust-to-dust 
Hello, happiness and hunger 
Learning love’s rhythm and rhyme 
Where no one is growing younger 
In the arms of Father Time 

Hello, season-circuit rider
On a phantom carousel
Of spring, summer, autumn, winter
Until we bid time farewell
Farewell, legacy-composer  
Farewell, fleeting breath-by-breath
Hello, morning drawing closer
The awakening in death

© Janet Martin 

Listened to this song from my daughter's playlist
this morning... 





Psalm 136:1
Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! 
For His mercy endures forever.

1 Chronicles 16:34
Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; 
His loving devotion endures forever.


Psalm 145:9
The LORD is good to all; 
His compassion rests on all He has made.

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

This Place of Grace...



 Inspired in part by today's devotion
  from this book


This place of grace where loaner loans
And wind moans blue through winter’s bones
And nothing but the love of God
For right and wrong this fight atones

This place of forecasts, often wrong
Of fumbling faith and off-key song
Of think-I-cans  and change of plans
And far too soon sudden 'so-long'

Where want and need are intertwined
Like bloom and seed or heart and mind
And we are all part of The Fall
That should make us more meek and kind

…and blinder to each other’s fault
As we scavenge time’s common vault
Of aches and pains and daisy-lanes
And lesser gods we oft exalt

Where we of mercy’s patient lease
Oft rob ourselves of perfect peace
For we forget the awesome debt
Paid so that life will never cease

This place of grace and needy needs
Where warrior wars and pray-er pleads
Is held by He of sound decree  
Whose boundless love nothing exceeds

© Janet Martin

Romans 8:35-39

 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
 Shall trouble or distress or persecution
 or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written:
“For Your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, 
neither angels nor principalities, 
neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, 
will be able to separate us from the love of God 
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 
Isa.55:8-9
 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord. 
 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.