Thursday Thoughts~

Tender shepherd, how you love us

Oh, what comfort fills our cries

For one is of no less value

Than ten-thousand, in your eyes

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Now I lay me down to sleep

And place within your care

Those things I tender to your keep

On wings of wafted prayer

Now I lay me down to sleep

For true love has no fear

What sweet assurance, Lord, to know

That you are ever near

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Time, what weaves your season-strings?

Where is your vast, vaporous Sea?

You fly on tireless, transient wings

Toward That Thing…

Eternity

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Mortality; the dust and sod

To Immortality

And God

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Truth is not altered

Though Deception tries

To twist it and change it

Through golden-lipped lies

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Oh, wondrous quality of truth

No matter how Time’s change

You are steadfast; Hope’s solid Rock

Nothing can re-arrange

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Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

All the days of my life

Unless I take my eyes off  Thee

Fixated on fear’s strife

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We, wayfaring fellowmen

Of common toil and test

Should seek to help each other then

To do our very best

..for we,

Wayfaring fellow-friends

Are bound for the same shore

This trial-and-error road soon ends

In God’s forevermore

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We ought to do all that we can

Today; tomorrow’s gate

Can offer us no guarantee

If we decide to wait

So we should call upon the Lord

Before it is too late

How sad to forfeit Hope’s reward

Because we chose to wait

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Sweat, prayer and toiling

As tears drench the dirt

...all things worth having

Must suffer this hurt

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Love…takes a deep breath

And then bites its tongue

Trying to remember

…once she too, was young

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Vexatious flow

Of high and low

As by the grace

Of God

We go…

Have a blessed Thankful Thursday!

© Janet Martin