In General...

Life, in general, allows lessons

Some, we never would ask for

But God knows our human-nature

Tendency; how we ignore

Him when things go just like we like it

So now and again He sends

Lessons, seemingly unpleasant

Yielding wisdom in the end

We, in general, best remember

Not those times when life was smooth

But the slips, the scrapes and mishaps

That no one would ever choose

Yet God, kind and wise and holy

Allows us Experience

Lending us life’s bumps and bruises

To shape meek obedience

God, in general, does not tell us

All His wherefores and His whys

What seems to us like misfortunes

Oft are blessings in disguise

So instead of blaming Him for

That which we cannot full see

We, in general should be thankful

Learning love’s humility

© Janet Martin

I wondered what the guy behind me in his new BIG, shiny truck thought as he followed the old, beat-up mini-van out after we both dropped our boys off at their summer farm job.

…but I never did want this bumper fixed;

It is a reminder of a morning when my wrong attitude caused a reckless and impatient backing up (in an empty church-parking lot!!) beside a garbage bin…and I hit it!

 "The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin;

 yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations."…Exodus 34:6-7