Counsel for Merchants of Moments or Driver of Dreams

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