Poetic Peregrination...

PAD Challenge day 25: For today’s prompt, pick an intriguing and/or seldom-used word, make it the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. 

Be Careful what you pray for. 

It might just lead you on a poetic peregrination
 

( Re-sharing to new readers what I shared almost four years ago on Nov. 12, 2014)

 ...in case you wonder  'does she suffer from a case of poetic insanity?!'

here is my permission slip😉

I really felt a need to know if writing poetry was Time well spent 

and was it really what God  wanted of me or simply something I chose.

On my knees I begged God to please, please

 somehow, reveal His will/blessing regarding this!

 (full story here)

After praying and deciding to wait to write again until I sensed His 'yes'

 I picked up a book on my night-table, purchased the week before at a Thrift Store;

a compilation of poetry and prose by many authors.

I flipped through wondering where to start so I chose The Preface (not something I normally did)

This was the first line I read; it felt like God stood in the room holding the book open to this page!!!

 Here is the full page...(click on image to enlarge)

 ...so then and there I vowed to be faithful to The Call for as long as He provides 'ink for the quill'

There are evenings when I am CERTAIN the well is parched

but then He flings out a fresh misty-marmalade morning full of 

...poetry waiting to be written! 

By the grace of God for His Glory, (some days better than others)

 hopefully we all go with this in mind...

...As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use  

whatever gift he has received to serve one another. 

 If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God.

 If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God supplies, 

so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, 

to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. 

Amen.…

1 Pet.4:10-11 

Permission thus, to all of us

To give the Best We Can

Not to glorify Self

But to serve God

and fellowman

Permission to enjoy the view

Be it in sun or shade

One thing we have in common

is this day

The Lord has made

Each high and low of 'yes' and 'no'

in Erst-while's entourage

Is but the grace whereby

you-I 

commit to His 'Because'

The Giver of our live-laugh-love

In due season will ask

If, with the gifts He granted,

Were we

Faithful to the task?  

Janet Martin~