As Surely As Sparks Fly Upward...

Happy Feb. 1st!

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Job 5:7

Troubled by sorrows that fetter our gaze

Buoyed by hope of morrow’s better days

Weakness and strength juxtapose ‘neath our skin

For where one ends the other will begin

One born of faith and the other of fear

Heart-wars beheld by One Wise Overseer

Ah, here is comfort, both Solace and Rod

Grappling with guesses while clinging to God

Up from the skyline a new day adheres

(Not to fate, for Divine God commandeers)

But to extensions of His saving grace

Kind intervention of Light bleeds through space

Where we, in likeness of His image made

Return to suffer the tools of love’s trade

Second mile servicemen breaking Time’s sod

Dying to self so we can live for God

We cannot know the synopsis of ‘why’?

Only, ‘there is more than what meets the eye’

Action and consequence ever deploy

Intimate heartbreak or outburst of joy

Here on time’s battle-ground, warriors we

Bearing the weapons that bind or set free

Leaning or leaping, wake-sleeping we plod

Where Love lays stepping-stones leading to God

© Janet Martin