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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

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

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