Travel Instructions

This forward-journey that we tread 

Is affixed betwixt future-past

Into dusk’s urn day’s husk is cast

As on yon arc starred dark is spread

How deftly Unknown to Known melds

Its common unveiling becomes

The latest in past’s greatest sums

Of, what at morn was yet withheld

Daylight will soon attune applause

With what will soon be retrospect

How soft the wisps that intersect

To cement what will be to ‘was’

Beyond this sight-rebellious way

God moves His love’s mysterious will

To draw our gaze up, up until

We fall down on our knees and pray

Life’s hurt that hones hope’s legacy

Tests man’s impetuous desires

Where fragile circumstance requires

Faith in far more than we can see

Dismay and doubt conspire, it seems

To trip us up or keep us down

God floods life’s way to heaven’s crown

With Mercy’s unquenchable streams

This journey through, not to the grave

Commands surrender to gain strength

Where neither height, depth, breadth or length

Can curb God’s love, mighty to save

Then trust in He who scores this sod

With more than mist-anointed mile

Where fear’s uncertainty will rile

All but the heart whose hope is God

© Janet Martin

To find God's love we first need to find God.

To find God we first need to find His Word.

To find His Word we must look in the Holy Bible 

Frames of Mind

This fellow(grandson Brantley)
 fills frames of mind with pure contentment...and tender concern;-)

Thought fills our frames of mind with ilk

Of daily grind and day-dream silk

It paints beyond the half-shut eye

Vistas that spawn a drawn-out sigh

Where what we have-had-hope-to-find

Tints that which fills our frames of mind

Tell me; what notions do you choose?

The haberdashery of Muse

Can advertise through lies and schemes

That which jeopardizes hope’s dreams

Where thought, invisible, can blind

Us to the truth in frames of mind

We ought to weigh thought and its worth

Before we let its 'yes' give birth

And spill into full view the art  

That we perceived ‘hid in the heart’

Where touch and taste is first designed

By pictures set in frames of mind

© Janet Martin

My sister Carolyn is a new first time Grandma!

Gary and Carolyn's son and daughter-in-law are proud parents of a baby boy!

Congratulations, little sister, as you embrace this delightful role.

Hugs~

Entrustments or Of Schlipping and Schlepping

New morning hosts hope’s plan-to-do

It stirs to life toil’s strife-and-song

And draws cause-and-effect along

Upon a tide of tried-and-true

Through corridors of more-or-less

Time’s rise-and-shine, come-get-me-stare

Hails beg-and-borrow’s grin-and bear

To sorrow’s care and happiness

Night’s crepuscule of raven tulle

Is pulled aside while pride-and-joy

Dawn’s for-better-or-worse employs

With cup-half-empty-or-half-full

To-be-or-not-to-be, a sea

Of rose and gold lo-and-behold

Where here-and-now is soon cajoled

From what-will-be to history

This nutshell of hello-farewell

Compels both brave and faint-of-heart

Toward the grave; left-right-foot march

While day-of-grace tolls heaven’s bell

…with grants of new-chance; Mercy’s rod

Through schlep of step-by-step's may-must

Teaches this skiff of dust-to-dust

To entrust each what-if to God

© Janet Martin

Thank-you to the 7:00 a.m. second-miler who picked up the recyling blown from the bins

 by fast-moving gotta-get-to-work traffic...

Let's all put on second-mile shoes today! Why?...

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Matt.25:40

God's Word IS...an ABC poem

God's Word is…

Abiding Assurance

Bread,

Constant Comfort, Compassion, Caution

Divine Direction

Eternal Encouragement

Faithful Fellowship, fulfillment

Grace, guide, goodness, God

Holy Hope

Instruction

Jesus-Joy

Kindness

Light, Life, Love

Mercy

Never-ending

Omnipotent

Power, Perfect, Promises

Quickened

Redemption, righteousness, refuge

Salvation, Sure, Supreme

Truth

Unchangeable, Understanding

Victory

Wisdom

X-cellent  X-ample

Yahweh, Yesterday-today-forever

Zeal

Have you read it today?

© Janet Martin

Try your version. SO many words to choose from!

In Case We Forget and Become Anxious...

Put on the armor of our Lord

Salvation’s helmet, Spirit’s sword

The belt of truth, the shield of faith

Feet shod with the gospel of grace

Let righteousness be your breastplate

With prayer prepare for day-in-wait

Then raise your voice with mercy’s boasts

Rejoice and praise the Lord of hosts

For He our debt of guilt forgave

Redemption seals the sin-cursed grave

He died so when we die we live

Beneath hate’s nails love cried ‘forgive’

And pardoned with His blood the debt

That doomed us to eternal death

Then, for the loss that paid sin’s price

Take up your cross of sacrifice

For, wherever we go He goes

And what we do not know He knows

God bestows peace to hearts that trust

And hallelujah hymns where dust-

To-dust is not a hopeless chase

But prelude to that face-to-face

Where grace our reckoning secures

Through faith in He whose Word endures

© Janet Martin