Morning Prayer...(roused by morning/mercy's riveting flare)

 Our heart's deep worship is wordless! 

but sometimes we try to find font to fit, 

though a stuttering shadow, to tell of its wonder!

Wake within my worship, wonder

Transfixed by Hope’s Covenant

Where without it, fear would thunder

Like an avalanche, hell-bent

Stir, through Thy Word, faith’s endurance

*Until sight annuls its need

Startle weariness with nuance

Of new morning’s mercy-deed

Fire desire with longing

For that which earth cannot grant

Keep my idle mind from wanting

That which would Thy love supplant  

Keep my feet and eyes from wand’ring

Where Distraction wields its vice

Lord, help me make Time my off’ring

Through love’s Living Sacrifice

Teach me, as I reach to others

How to make my love like yours

Where we, all sisters and brothers

Need the Hope Thy grace secures

© Janet Martin

 Yesterday, as we gazed at my friend's dad lying in death's repose
we couldn't help but wonder what his last breath's Sight revealed!

Hymn by Margaret Mackay...Asleep in Jesus

1. Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep,
   From which none ever wakes to weep;
   A calm and undisturbed repose,
   Unbroken by the last of foes.
2. Asleep in Jesus! Oh, how sweet,
   To be for such a slumber meet,
   With holy confidence to sing
   That death has lost his venomed sting
3. Asleep in Jesus! Peaceful rest,
   Whose waking is supremely blest;
   No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour
   That manifests the Savior’s pow’r.
4. Asleep in Jesus! Oh, for me
   May such a blessed refuge be!
   Securely shall my ashes lie,
   And wait the summons from on high
5. Asleep in Jesus! Far from thee
   Thy kindred and their graves may be;
   But there is still a blessed sleep,
   From which none ever wakes to weep.