World-menders

We gape at Autumn's candelabra! 

Here's to carrying our candles with like-fervour!

This broken world needs mending, more befriending of the weak 

A few more folk more willing just to turn the other cheek 

This world, so full of beauty groans with humankind’s appeal 

Rather than worship’s anthems that ought never lose their zeal 

This world so full of trouble needs the best that we can give 

In this very brief bubble of one single life we live 

As we bear pressing burdens; this is the price tag of love 

Where hearts and dreams oft broken are cupped in skin’s fragile glove 

And faith, hope’s firm foundation is considered obsolete 

As instant gratification seeks something soft and sweet 

While weeping at the woebegone condition of mankind 

Where we need reappraising of love’s state of heart and mind 

Lest the light of God’s mercy seems too feeble and too dim 

For He made us the lampstand to lift up love’s flame for Him 

Because this world needs mending, more befriending of the lost 

A few more folk more willing to love without counting cost 

To lean on God's sufficient grace rather than mortal strength

Where His love has no limit in its height, depth, breadth and length

© Janet Martin 

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, 

and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Matt.5:16

He has told you, O man, what is good;
    and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,[a]
    and to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8