Up and On We Go...

There is no door back to before

No U-turn, hon, on life's highway

No button to undo the done

No let’s-go-back-to-yesterday

There is no ‘starting over’ here

We’re all in the same one-way race

One foot and then the next, my dear

While clinging to the Hand of grace

Life’s forward facing rise-and-shine

Caught between after and before

Grants what we always leave behind

Where twilight always locks its door

Then trust the only One who sees

Beyond the mileage ‘neath our feet

And pray His Word our light to be

Where faith and fear clash and compete

For we have one abiding hope

To comfort us through highs and lows

The love of God will never fail

No matter where life’s highway goes

 

So up and on we go until

We reach the farewell all will face

As faith’s prayer with that last exhale

Unveils the glory of God’s grace

© Janet Martin

I counted the prayer requests in my in-box...a lot!!!

Imagine if we had to go the road or sea of life alone!

When life's storm tosses our 'ship' 

He calls to us "peace be still"

 Mark 4:35-41

 On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.”  Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. 

And other little boats were also with Him.   

And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling.   

But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. 

And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”

Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” 

And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.   

But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?”   

And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another,

 “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”