Life...

 Hopefully we all weathered yesterday's storm!

At our place we didn't get the ice they forecasted, thankfully.

Just enough to add a bit of glass brocade to branches and yester-blooms.

Sadness, gladness intertwines

Trouble, triumph, alternates

Hope and heartache always lines

Dawn’s fresh favour at yon gates

Where God’s mercy always new

Perseveres, faithful and true

Joy and sorrow interweaves

Love and longing’s tender wars

With the happiness that grieves

Seasons snuffed by swinging doors

Where time’s torrent onward rolls

Like a tsunami of souls

Courage is faith’s gleaming gem

From a Hand that cannot fail

Roses crown the thorny stem

Beauty blooms amidst travail

Morning breaks on eastern sash

Like a phoenix from death’s ash

God with us is all we need

Step by step and day by day

His promises intercede

Where fear stalks its primal prey

Greater than our greatest strife

Is The Way, The Truth, The Life

© Janet Martin

 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. 

No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 14:6