A Common Bond

We share a common dividend

On this sojourn of sod

For every path of living ends

Before the throne of God

This yawning rue of gold and blue

Of rich or poor the same

Will leave us penniless at death

As whence from birth we came

…and no one can this passage flee

Nor flippancy afford

For this appointed day when we

Will stand before the Lord

Then we ought all the more to live

As though today we die

For every one of us must give

A full report on high

The God who sent His Son to save

Us from the curse of sin

Will never disregard the faith

Of all who call on Him

This flesh and blood mortality

Sustains a common bond

For every path of living leads

Into The Great Beyond

© Janet Martin

It is written: "'As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.'" Romans 14:11

Yesterday my hubby attended the wake of a departed truck-driver friend who passed away suddenly at age 52. As he and other friends reminisced about this man's love of life,  trucks etc. the Great Unspoken hovered; someday each one of them would take their turn not beside the coffin, but in it.