For The Far Bigger Picture...

 Lest we under-estimate 

(during our love-hate relationship with life's gifts and crosses)

...the bigger picture

Fit for far more than task galore or fingertips that feel

Their way along rock-shores that jut beneath time's foaming keel

This surging splurge of come and go, of urge and its respite

Tackles the apples of time’s eye with death-designed delight

Twixt truth and make-believe youth tosses darling daydreams high

She poises on Her tippy-toes to almost touch the sky

Ballerina in middle-twirl; then Time collects its dues

It gathers up the little girl and steals her dancing shoes

For we are fit for far, far more than wish-worlds beck and call

Or worn-out work shoes weighting feet where seasons rise and fall

As Time goes by we realize Love’s Grand Futility

Without a far, far higher Prize than simply what we see

The one True God that cups Favor’s Façade in days and years

That strips the petal from the bloom that pricks our smiles with tears

Made us for far, far more than this mist, frost-kissed shadowland

There is a heaven waiting for the one who holds His hand

© Janet Martin

 Carry One Another's Burdens
…The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; 

 but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

 Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest, if we do not give up. 

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.…

Gal.6:8-10

visited my sister-in-law Karen last night...she is in good spirits
(with a mischievous grin she added 'morphine is a beautiful thing')
but of course she would love to be home!
 Pray she can see a specialist soon, and for her INR issues to be resolved so it is safe to leave the hospital without fear of blood-clots.