We had a solemn reminder this week-end that life/plans can change in a wink!
...thankfully injuries are relatively minor but serious enough
to make a person think seriously about how swift Hereafter can happen!
Torn, it seems, twixt joy and sorrow
Gift of day extends God’s grace
Time is something none can borrow
Save for later or replace
But this moment, hinged to others
Like a glint of ether gold
From a hand that grants and gathers
Is the only thing we hold
Pain is such a small example
Of the grief that God must feel
As He sees the hearts of people
Hard, it seems, to His appeal
As if hope was something earthy
Found in dreamland’s starry spheres
Not the Promise God deemed worthy
To seal with His blood and tears
We have nothing to lay hands on
But this moment-gift of Here
Where the table that Time stands on
In a wink could disappear
So with all that we are able
We should reach with humble trust
To the Giver who is faithful
Far beyond this leap of dust
What a holy thing this life is
Hope approaches its demise
What a sacred fight its strife is
What a price and what a prize
What a gift, each little moment
Torn it seems, twixt thrills and ills
Before time’s solemn annulment
And the promise it fulfills
© Janet Martin
which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces
of the world
rather than on Christ.
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