Oh, This Life

Oh, this sacred breadth of being

With its breath-by-breath decay

Is a journey toward seeing

How swift life’s gift slips away

Oh, this beauty of becoming

Where Duty and dream ally

Is like listening to the humming

Of a choir in the sky

Oh, this flower-favored laughter

Oh, this longing-labored fear

Cunning, shapes the stunning After

In the echo of a year

Cherish ev’ry bit of living

Savor its sun-shadow sweep

For Time’s hand, so full of giving

Leaves so little we can keep

Oh, this road of woe and wonder

Oh, this hunger-driven laud

Is a brief joy-grief encounter

On a journey back to God

© Janet Martin

Last evening I went out with a couple friends to celebrate a 50th birthday.

"Hi Marie,(sharing the poem from your card:)

You visit this porch from time to time

 so I did not want your card to be poemless!

Thank-you for reading and your kind interest and words of appreciation over the years".

Wishing each of you blessed miles in your journey today!

Whether we're coasting downhill or struggling up,

our God of grace is with us!

You make known to me the path of life;

You will fill me with joy in Your presence,

with eternal pleasures at Your right hand

Ps.16:11

The path of the righteous is like the morning sun,

shining ever bright til the full light of day.

Prov.4:18