Thursday Thoughts on Things Unknown

So many things uncertain, unknown

But one thing we know;

‘There’s no place like home’.

(Just had an e-mail letting us know Dad came home tonight. He was picked up this morning, came through an awful storm to find the roads closed to their home so they(mom and dad) went to my brother’s house until this evening. As he was leaving the hospital a nurse smiled at Dad and said he has the ‘breaking free’ smile. I’m sure tonight home is even sweeter though he rested well at Dave and Karen’s house.)

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If we dwell on thunder-clouds that might unfold

We miss every joy-drop of mercy we hold

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We cannot see beyond the moment slipping through our touch

Treasure, taste and reverence it, then leave the rest to God

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Yesterday is over

Tomorrow; a maybe

Today is almost

A memory

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Fear is a mountain

Dread is a stone

Faith is our foothold

Into its Unknown

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Disappointment is always a present-past thing

Unknown is the hope to which we cling

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We all are students

In the school of life

We didn’t know yesterday

What we do tonight

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If I knew all I wished I knew

Of things Unknown and hidden

Then I know that what I know

I’d likely wish I didn’t

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It is better to work with what we know

Than worry about what we don’t

Some things in time their proof will show

And some…I hope they won’t

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If all that was left is what we know

Anticipation would lose its glow

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How far the Unknown goes, who knows?

But this we know for sure

One life, one death, then the God we chose

Our soul-place will secure

© Janet Martin