Heart and Goal

A calm hour with God is worth

a whole lifetime with man.

-Robert Murray McCheyne- 

What goal fires our purpose?

Is it temporal or eternal?

 1 Peter 1:24
For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field;

 the grass withers and the flowers fall,

So much seeks our full attention

Weak or strong are not immune

To the ethereal dimension

Of the dreamer’s private room

Where no mortal master governs

What no guard can chaperone

In thought’s invisible caverns

Where the heart becomes a throne

…where the one who reigns upon it

Breaks through flesh and blood façade

By the way we weigh life’s moments

Serving either Self or God

By the object of our wonder

By the comforts that console

Where each moment draws asunder

The gap between Heart and Goal

© Janet Martin