Thursday Thoughts, Friday Jots...

As long as life remains

So too does grace of God

And opportunity to change

Those things we know we should

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The ups and downs of love and life

Beneath our second glance

Turns into thought’s landscape shaped by

Response to circumstance

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The way we are, for better-worse

Is never so complete

That we do not have reason to

Improve somehow, my sweet

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If we do not know how to pray

Or wish we better could

We need to take the time to pray

As often as we should 

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No matter how much

Life’s future lessens

It never runs out of

Trusting lessons

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Priority, priority,

Beneath your voice I move

And often prove unconsciously

The God or gods I love

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Look back at your mistakes

To learn from them, and then

Wiser and humbler move on and

Do not look back again

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We cannot blame our feet alone

For the wrong way we went

The mind lays out the stepping-stone

That moves the foot’s intent

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The mind will never muster what it takes to master it

The heart, desperately wicked and deceitful steers the Whole

…and we would all be shipwrecked on a rocky shore or reef

Save for the heart that repents and asks God to take control

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The words we write or say are little more than tripe or noise

Unless deed jibes with that which the mouth easily employs

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Together we can weather more than we thought possible

But first we must make sure that we agree which way to pull

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Do not despair;

For we have prayer

A life-line up to God

Then pray that we

Pray faithfully

With more than just a nod

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The old year

Like a feather loosed

Wafts out of our reach

Too late to learn

The lessons that

It intended to teach

The New Year

Like a singing bird

Perches on Mercy’s limb

The lessons we

Failed to full-learn

Are hidden in its wing

© Janet Martin