Butterfly and Flower-Hour Prelude (Serious Enjoyment!)

Yesterday the flower-garden boasted almost as many butterflies as blooms!

This Butterfly and Flower Hour gilds an Awesome Door... 

This Preparation Place traces fresh faces with love-lines

Where we hold near and dear the Here of Mercy-lent designs

Time's grace is interlaced with high and low of hold-let go

For, after all, life’s scrawl is but the Prelude to The Show

This practical, poetical, inevitable poof

Is like a silver sun-glint on a frost-embellished roof

How much we make of much that we cannot take with us when

We slip from this whisper of skin into Forever’s Then

Tomorrow, none can borrow from its sorrow-joy, Today

Is all that we will ever have before it slips away

This is an invitation-to-salvation-day, pray we

With sacred expectation ready for eternity

Death is no cold-hearted surprise; it comes to everyone

But who knows when, save God who grants Heaven when life is done

But not to everyone; then pray before it is too late

We call upon The Name that saves the soul from folly’s fate

Ready or not, time’s tittle-jot will soon falter and fail

Then, (holy, holy Then) faith will Endless Until unveil

And all that love surrendered for the sake of Christ the Lord

And all Self took for granted will receive its just reward

This race is like a chase where grace is all the good we have

This life is like a lineup through, not to death’s earthy grave

This butterfly and flower hour gilds An Awesome Door

It tips The Grail that pours The Prelude to Forevermore

© Janet Martin

  (behold, now is the accepted time; 

behold, now is the day of salvation.)

2 Cor.6:2 KJV