Mercy's Magnum Opus- God's Hope For Us

Ontario hydro bills to rise 42% in 5 years

It would be easy to peer anxiously into the doom-and-gloom fore-casted future...

(I was just listening to some feeble suggestions on how Ontario-ans can save on ever sky-rocketing electricity costs! We have conserved!!!...so well in fact, that 'They...the Hydro-One-lords' promise to increase electricity costs for the next five years )

So, I turn back the furnace, put on a sweater, keep an eye on the clock to plan my day around peak-energy rates, and look at the birds of the air...)

Despair will blind us to God’s kindness and hope’s fellowship

Life, at best unpredictable, offers no guarantees

Save this, a faithful hand to hold where else our feet would slip

Into the bog of fear and foggy what-ifs and maybes

Unbelief chooses action through the eyes of ignorance

The cost of ignorance breaks more than budget-balanced deeds

The earth groans in the aftermath of greed’s indifference

Where man has long-forsaken Thou Shalt Not for lesser creeds

Despair gapes like a hollow waiting to swallow its prey

And oh, it could and would save for One greater than our fear

Mercy’s Magnum Opus purchased redemption for always

And if we call on Him He never turns a deafened ear

Ah, here the crux of hope is grounded; faith’s foundation sure

In spite of amassed unbelief His promises prevail

Oh, He will never leave or forsake us; Hope is secure

For they who cling to He whose law of love will never fail

© Janet Martin

Scholars far and wide at last have their long-awaited for...SNOW-DAY!!!