We Cannot Catch Love Like a Ball in a Glove...

PAD Challenge 16:

 Time for our third Two for Tuesday of the month!

 Pick one prompt or use both…your choice!

1. Write a catch poem.
2. Write a release poem.

Two things we cannot catch or force; Love and Belief!

We cannot catch Love like a ball in glove

Or Belief, like a cold or a chill

The wraith we call faith has no tangible shape

Like a bubble we chase for the thrill

We cannot suppose while we wiggle our toes

In slippers or sand on a beach

That grace can be caught without intent or thought

If we never take Time to reach

…and if like a fool who plays hooky from school

We dodge Mercy’s uttermost Gift

We will not catch a break from our Greatest Mistake

While ageless eternities drift

But, if by faith we believe, then by grace we receive

Release from the debt that we owe

Through shed blood of His Son death’s curse was undone

Because One True God loves us so

© Janet Martin

 It is rare indeed for anyone to die for a righteous man, 

though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.

 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 

 Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood,

 how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!…

Romans 5:7-9