Showing posts with label college. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college. Show all posts
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Bracing For Fall or Of Summer Spent
Is there any emptier feeling in the home than when a child moves out for school?
Hugs all around to parents who suddenly find their arms aching for a Summer that is no more...
What pangs do autumn’s hearts torment
With love’s demands when hands are stripped
And trees are lamp-posts, yellow-dipped
And primed for summer-less lament
Ah, life is cursed with discontent
And hollow hurt of letting go
While mouths make promises we know
Will not reimburse summer spent
…so we stand tall and say hello
To newcomers in this Fall place
Of arms still aching to embrace
What time insists on weaning…oh,
The air is like a map we trace
Back to That Shangri-La before
We staggered beneath the loud roar
Of empty room and packed suitcase
What pangs do autumn’s hearts torment
With love’s demands when hands are stripped
And lands are unkempt, yellow-dipped
And primed for Time's timeless lament
© Janet Martin
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Of Courage, College and Carrying On...
We speak to them of courage and we hope within its speech
We find the very thing that we are striving thus to teach
Life’s laughter and lament, love’s learning-curves
amalgamate
Within the eye; hello-good-bye; time never bars its gate
As daughters become us and we stare long at our skin
And wonder who we are; the image not the girl within
Where dying ways that life inflicts upon our gaze reflects
The nature of all nature and the climax of all flesh
Our lips, once filled with answers suddenly are dumb and
numb
While merry moment-dancers seem to disregard the sum
Of all that they become as we peruse their aftermath
Where tragedy and triumph meld in glimmers on dusk’s path
Still, onward, ever onward, we commence again, again
The learning is not over until God declares, Amen
And so we speak of courage and we hope within its speech
To find the very thing that we are striving thus to teach
© Janet Martin
Our pastor, Dale Ward, encouraged students to take this verse with them as they return to school...
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do
not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you
go." Joshua 1:9
From Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears...
Tears, idle tears, I know
not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather in the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more...
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather in the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Holding You.......
I prayed for you today, my dear
For in my prayer God brings you near
Though days and miles are in between
To God the distance is unseen
And so when I am missing you
There is one thing that I can do
I ask God to keep you in His care
For I can touch you in a prayer
~Janet~
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