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Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Here's To Us (life's students)


 How swift those years when problems could be solved with a cuddle and kiss!
When houses were made out of shoe boxes without mortgages,
and dreams didn't need dollars...
(we're cleaning out closets and going through things that have been stored away for quite a while)


In ‘parenting’ one of the hardest tests for us is stepping back
as live-and learn begins, in our adult children
the grueling courses that we ourselves had/have…
 As we learn
Action=consequence,
Faith is hard and full of unanswered questions.
( Faith is the substance of things hoped for)
Numbers don’t lie
That happiness is not found in things
That pride goes before destruction.
That love is not always enough
That life really is short no matter how long it is!
That the small things are the big things 
That everyone eventually needs the Part that turns 'I' to 'we' 
That this too shall pass
That nothing takes the place of a kind word and helping hand.
Holding precedes the letting go
Joy is always hinged to sorrow
AND SO MUCH MORE!

So wherever we are in our live-and-learn courses
 here’s hoping we all seek direction/instruction
 from Someone who sees the whole picture,
while we still see 'through a glass darkly before face-to-face'

Here’s to the learning that we are all earning
Credits and scores never tendered to page
Here’s to hope’s reaches while time always teaches
We are all students no matter our age

Here’s to the pupil of passion or scruple
Stunned by the factors beyond our control
Here’s to a ledger without an eraser
Only God’s grace can absolve and console

Here’s to the dawning of our keep on ‘on-ing’
Never give up in spite of kicks and stings
Here’s to the scholar of dream-dust or dollar
Happiness happens in love’s simplest things

Here’s to the wedding of moment’s soft-threading
Past-present-future’s determined outcome
Here’s to the holding that precedes the folding
That seals the tally of Time’s total sum

© Janet Martin



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