Take Heart; The Cross Is Not The End

 Life since COVID-19 makes us really miss

'the good old days' doesn't it?

But these days many are turning to or turning back to God

What do we choose, suffering to draw us nearer to God

or ease and prosperity with God forgotten?!

 This Easter season we are without excuse

to kneel at the cross!

Love comes in many forms

So does hate

Life’s spirit-testing storms

Will abate

Nothing stays where it is

Forever

The bond that fastens This

Will sever

The loom that weaves and weds

Life’s duty

Entwines contrasting threads

For beauty

Take heart, when dark of night

Compasses

God’s everlasting light

Surpasses

When life turned upside down

Unsettles

And longing is a crown

Of nettles

When courage is a groaned

Surrender

God still abides; enthroned

Defender

Love comes in many forms

Staff and rod

Beneath the testing storms

Hand of God

Take heart, this woebegone

Hurt and loss

Pales in comparison

To Christ's cross

The cross is not the end

Then take heart

The eyes of faith, my friend

See in part

When death full sight imparts

We will find

A mist of broken hearts

Left behind

© Janet Martin

 When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

    In God, whose word I praise—
in God I trust and am not afraid.
    What can mere mortals do to me?

 In God, whose word I praise,
    in the Lord, whose word I praise— 

 in God I trust and am not afraid.
    What can man do to me?

Psalm 56:3-4-10-11