On Keepin' Our Chins Up and Keepin' the Faith

All those proverbs and clichés we spout are proof of what life has always been about;

living and learning through life’s troubles and our mistakes.

Keeping our chins up, when the going gets tough, the tough get going,

because it’s always darkest before the dawn

so we just keep on keeping on

because tomorrow’s another day

and every cloud has a silver lining

and if a stitch in time didn’t save nine

we put more water in the soup ‘cause there’s better days a-comin’!

 What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;
    there is nothing new under the sun.

Eccles.1:9

 

Seems we’re never at the end of earnin’ some new learnin’

But the greatest of these, love, just keeps us all returnin’

Pedal to the middle, oh, and old nose to the grindstone

Countin’ blessin’s darlin’, workin’ fingers to the bone

Seems life never tires of the curve ball and the cutter

Work a whole harder for a bit of bread an’ butter

Pray a whole lot longer for a seed of faith to cling to

Come what may the Lord will never leave you nor forsake you

What won’t break us makes us stronger, but don’t try to borrow

That which breaks the donkey’s back (don't worry ‘bout tomorrow)

Strive toward the one reward, jubilant and fervent

Face to face with Christ the Lord, “well done, faithful servant”

© Janet Martin

 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. 

Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Matt. 6:34