Divine Consolation

Remember when the adrenaline of youth ran like molten music in our veins?!

(art credit: Melissa from her high-school collection)
 Sometimes, when I'm super-tired I miss my younger, more energetic person;-)

Remember when we thought 'impossible' That which haste of years brings

 and others (whose shoes we now fill) warned us about...?!(like grunting when we get up?!) lol

Ah! with each step-breath-twilight nears the threshold of life's sunset years...

How smooth the hand that turns each page then shuts the book on middle-age...

As winter, like a strange postcard echoes of summer, caught off guard!

As we age, aren't you thankful for a Divine Console-er that never ages or fails as our bodies do?!

God, Author of time’s temp’ral scale

And Arbitrator of what is

What Divine Consolation, this

To know His law will never fail

His law is Love; ah, sometimes we

Misunderstands God’s Higher Thought

When we try to decipher what

No mortal mind is made to see

No man has seen God; thus fools scorn

For knowledge trusts in what it sees

But faith accepts God’s mysteries

Consoled by He who metes each morn

How pitiful is brainwashed dust

So lust inclined and vision blind

Divinity consoles mankind

When heart and mind resigns to trust

Alpha, Omega, First and Last

God’s Ordinances no one thwarts

While Divinity’s mercy courts

Mortality’s rebellious cast

Where soon youth’s burst of speed declines

On landscapes deftly rearranged

And what we clasp is soon estranged

As change insists on fresh designs

 And writes laugh-lines of poetry

Across the brow once smooth and young

 ‘No-ways’ that boldly braved the tongue

Concede vulnerability

…and slowly we begin the crave

What once we thought so little of

God’s Divine Consolation; love

To escort us beyond the grave

© Janet Martin

 For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

This saying is trustworthy. And I want you to emphasize these things, so that those who have believed God will take care to devote themselves to good deeds. 

These things are excellent and profitable for the people.

Titus 3:3-8