Take a Minute to Marvel...

Every good and perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,
who does not change like shifting shadows. 

James 1:17

Take a minute

Then look in it

Count God’s gifts to

You and I

Look how laughter

Sweetens after

Sorrow spills then

Passes by

Touch the places

That love graces

With meek, holy

Reverence

Soon the motion

Of Time’s ocean

Tunes a tide of

Severance

It is never

Always winter

Sea of seasons

Ebbs and flows

Trouble-bubble

Harvest, stubble

Winter harbours

Summer's rose

See, love's hours

Bloom like flowers

In the gardens

Of our hearts

Take a minute

And look in it

At the beauty

It imparts

Not for nothing

Is the Something

That we suffer,

Savour, oh,

We can weather

Any weather

Through the grace where-

By we go

Want is surprised…

Time is baptized

With mercies

That leaves thought awed

Take a minute

And look in it

At the tender

Touch of God

Over, under

Ages thunder 

With God's love

Misunderstood

Calm or chaos

God is with us

Always faithful

Kind and good

 

© Janet Martin