Consolation Prize

Thank-you Lord for Your works of art...

  

 
 

Thank-you Lord, for your works of art

You always satisfy the heart

The wonder of Your ways and means

Consoles this breadth of in-betweens

You wow us with Your majesty

In spite of all we cannot see

While Time unfurls trouble’s torment

To a world full of discontent

The forge of faith is full of prayer

The gorge of grace is full of care

Life would be too dreary to bear

Without You; You are everywhere

Lord, Your indescribable worth

Overflows hearts, heaven and earth

Pity the one who cannot see

Beyond visual periphery

...where hate can never overthrow

The love and grace whereby we go

And fear, for all its dread and doom

Can never infiltrate the bloom

© Janet Martin

Palm 92:4-8

For You, O LORD, have made me glad by Your deeds;

I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

5How great are Your works, O LORD,

how deep are Your thoughts!

6A senseless man does not know,

and a fool does not understand,

7that though the wicked sprout like grass,

and all evildoers flourish,

they will be forever destroyed.

8But You, O LORD, are exalted forever!