Life's Laurels

I have one daughter who on more than one occasion has commented to me, ‘how can you stand it! (My life)’

She looks at me and thinks ‘what have you ever really done , and how do you still get excited about it?!”

If we are blessed, life grants a holy repetition of that which we are called to…I don’t always get excited about the idea of more laundry or cleaning etc. But the Love that gives life meaning excites me every time.

I love this quote by Eric Liddel:

“In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.”

If one has done one’s best, my friend,

Regardless of the dividend

Then time is not some hapless falling

As each creature care we tend

But a most high and holy calling

To an intermediate end

…for at the end of days, my dear

Begins what we should full revere

The very cause of all we do

Will in that sacred Then appear

Thus by this fact we ought to view

Time’s mission with love’s moral fear

Then, if we do the best we can

To serve, not self, but fellowman

By this we serve our God who gave

Each one a purpose in His plan

For we are all servant or slave

The grave but death’s dust-charlatan

© Janet Martin

Today's 'best' includes preserving peaches:)!

Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 2 Cor. 5:10