If we leap headlong into choice
Without weighing its gain and cost
How doleful we, in hindsight see
Oft all we have is what we lost
Self can be such a jealous god
A boss that’s never satisfied
Thus, it behooves God's tender truths
To bend these necks of stubborn pride
For in life’s quest to gain and gain
Sometime we lose sight of its Whole
How, in the end, we will contend
With He who gathers back the soul
Be careful then and prayerful too
For merchants one and all are we
This wake and sleep a solemn leap
That trades time for eternity
© Janet Martin
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark 8:36
Good and well composed advise.
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