Love-lessons

 God's love is never misrepresented...

only misinterpreted!

 Strange times, isn't it?!

"This will someday be in the past", my dad called over to me across the yard

(with good distance between us because they are quarantined/self-isolating) 

"but for now it is a serious present that will take Time to pass"

So we drop our 'sunshine' boxes on their porch

 filled with goodies they can see and prayers they can't

...pause to marvel at the beauty of white birch on blue...

 ...and by the grace of God, carry on. What else can we do?

Once more the orb of daylight climbs

Above a world of troubled times

Where our responsibility

In spite of all we hear and see

Remains unchanged; the circumstance

Does not estrange two great commands;

To love the Lord above all else

Then love our neighbour as our-self

Once more Mercy renews its creed

Above a world of utter need

Where God, whose form we cannot see

Remains unchanged; though misery

May make us feel strange or alone

Take heart for God is on His throne

No height or depth or breadth enough

To separate us from His love

Once more the day eclipses night

Where faith does not satisfy sight

But on a threshing-floor of pain

Love separates chaff from the grain

And what may feel like punishment

Is love we cannot comprehend

As it suffers for you and me

With love proven at Calvary

Sunrise, sunset, do not forget

Love is not finished with us yet

But longs to burn away the dross

And draw us closer through a cross

Where high or low does not estrange

Us from His love that does not change

But leads us through the vale of woe

To prove the love whereby we go

© Janet Martin

Romans 8:37-39

 …No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, 
neither angels nor principalities, 
 neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 
 neither height nor depth,
 nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.…