Enjoy the Journey

While I was listening to Lysa Terkeurst talk about what inspired her latest book The Best Yes she reminded us to stop being so hard on ourselves (esp. mothers, because as long as sinners keep giving birth to sinners we will never fully 'get it':)...so, just get out there and enjoy the journey! 

After all, its a once-in-a-lifetime experience!

This journey of morning to noon to night

This trouble and struggle and stumble fight

Can make us forget the full joy of the flight

… by God-granted grace we go

And how in the world can hope fill our glass

If we, cast down with fear’s might-come-to-pass

Overlook ‘every good thing’ that we have

Weighed by what we cannot know?

Love light’s the wick of dawn’s candle whereby

Soon the whole morning fills up the night sky

Tucked into archives, where no hands can pry

Yesterday’s should-haves remain

And now on the brink of what we cannot see

Grace pours Today to Time’s long-suffering lea

Beckoning to little you, little me

Come one and all, try again

‘This is the day that the good Lord has made’

How will we fill it before its skies fade?

…before its nevermore softly is laid

Where none its gasp can exhume

Then, let the music of mute moments meld

Into keep-sakes, Today; nothing withheld

Save for the quiet berating of Self

…now let’s get out there and bloom

© Janet Martin

 

 ...for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." 35Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name: Jer.31:34-35