This Place of Grace...

 Inspired in part by today's devotion

  from this book

This place of grace where loaner loans

And wind moans blue through winter’s bones

And nothing but the love of God

For right and wrong this fight atones

This place of forecasts, often wrong

Of fumbling faith and off-key song

Of think-I-cans  and change of plans

And far too soon sudden 'so-long'

Where want and need are intertwined

Like bloom and seed or heart and mind

And we are all part of The Fall

That should make us more meek and kind

…and blinder to each other’s fault

As we scavenge time’s common vault

Of aches and pains and daisy-lanes

And lesser gods we oft exalt

Where we of mercy’s patient lease

Oft rob ourselves of perfect peace

For we forget the awesome debt

Paid so that life will never cease

This place of grace and needy needs

Where warrior wars and pray-er pleads

Is held by He of sound decree  

Whose boundless love nothing exceeds

© Janet Martin

Romans 8:35-39

 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

 Shall trouble or distress or persecution

 or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

As it is written:

“For Your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, 

neither angels nor principalities, 

neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, 

will be able to separate us from the love of God 

that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Isa.55:8-9

 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord. 

 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.