Of Waves and Second Chances

No spent waves tune morning’s gladness

From the Hand of all things new

Comes a morning drenched with mercy

Sweet with kiss of heaven’s dew

Hope expands beneath the tresses

Where, since Eden’s paradise

Light, with ever-faithful graces

Rends the dark with morning skies

Here we laugh and weep and wonder

Dare to dream the dreaming dream

While the bloom falls from the poppy

Scarlet whispers on life’s stream

Still, we press toward a portal

Past the lintel of the sky

Where mortal becomes immortal

In the twinkling of an eye

We are not adrift on oceans

Of spent waves and happenstance

Morning rends the dark with dawning

And the gift of second chance

© Janet Martin

The other day I read a quote that has stayed stuck in my mind…It is not too late to become who you dreamed you would be.

Press on, my friends. God’s grace is new every morning.

Also, please let us pray for those suffering in Egypt. Prayer changes things!

  But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,  even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),  and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,  that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.  For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,  not of works, lest anyone should boast.  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Eph. 2: 4-10