Life's Thanks Full...and 'Hello again':)

 Whether its in a little church in the valley by the wildwood...

 

...or the Notre-Dame Basilica

 God hears those who worship him in spirit and truth!

(Yet a time is coming and has now come 

when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, 

for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

John 4:23)

Life’s fiends of fear would paralyze the fount of Hope within

Where hunger-lords would rule the sighs that vex this cage of skin

Without a charge for something greater than time's push and pull

…to worship Love’s Creator with a heart humbly thanks-full

Life’s strife-anointed battlefields would drive us to despair

As rife the rush of hours wields its weapons made of air

Where change, a constant rival to what once we thought we knew

Makes struggles for survival more than flesh and blood ado

Life’s give and take would wake in us a doleful agony

The bread we break never enough to feed the soulful plea

But Love without exception to a world hate would destroy

Became the soul’s salvation making possible full joy

Life’s everlasting fortitude as generations pass

Fills hearts with holy gratitude where man’s days are as grass

But worth the hurt where want and need would be too much to bear

Without the Certainty of He who leads from here to There

© Janet Martin

We had a wonder-full, thanks-full trip!

 Often in the eastern province's scenic sweeps 

a church-spire would draw the eye

as it reached toward the sky!

This church's bells tolled through the valley one evening while we stopped 

to admire the view along the St. Lawrence River!