Love Letter to Life

After being a little under-the-weather for a day or two, but feeling better today there is

so much to love this new morning...

I love the way an hour drips

With virgin possibility

I love the way a moment slips

Twixt history and what will be

How, in the blip of now is cast

The Undoing of its conclave

How from the crib of Almost Past

Is borne the fodder of the grave

I love how ev’ry day is new

No rerun when the sun has set

Dawn ushers to earth’s avenue

A whole new Road not traveled yet

I love the way that you and I

Are growing old at the same pace

How all that we can do is try

To make the best of Time and Place

I love how we never know, quite

What waits beyond each dip and curve

How expectation’s appetite

Seems always keened to Nature’s verve

How we are all learning to cope

Subject to ready grin and frown

Kindred in both reproach and Hope

And thus, should help those who are down

I love the way wonder can steal

And still the tongue of wordy noise

I love the lilt of fresh appeal

In zeal of little girls and boys

I love the joys of simple things

Like laughter 'neath dusk's first bright star

…and I love you; and how heart-strings

Will always reach to where you are

© Janet Martin

Heart-felt prayers to all who are struggling with sickness and pain. 

There are so many of you!

(Someone called yesterday partly to wonder where I was the night before 

NOT at the concert I was hoping to attend because I was down with the flu)

  ...he prayed for me on the spot!

Very touching and special.

Dear Lord, be near and dear I pray

To those/we who travel suff'ring's Way

Lord, be their/our all-sufficient grace

Until they/we look upon Your face

When that first glimpse will satisfy

And answer every single 'why'

 

 Lamentations 3:57
You drew near when I called on You; You said, "Do not be afraid."