Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Let's Look If We're Able (at Mercy's set table)

 


Because all of our hearts are kinda in our throats right now
as we wait, pray and wonder...

He wasn't pretty
the first snowman of the year,
but he was loved!





Let’s look if we’re able 
At mercy’s set table 
And leave to the Lord what we ought 
This earth runneth over 
With joys to discover 
Like a four-season garden plot 
The blessings that matter, 
Like child’s carefree chatter 
As they slip their hand into ours 
The faithful adorning 
Of beautiful morning 
As night’s bud bursts forth in fresh flowers 


Let’s be boldly honest 
Because of the Promise 
-es God made, trustworthy and true 
Time’s delicate suture 
That holds back the future 
Throbs with what God said He will do 
So ours is to listen 
Where frosted fields glisten, 
Where orbit of season-tide tolls 
To usher the plunder 
That gushes with wonder 
That thunders through awe-smitten souls 

Let’s cherish the summons 
Of what may seem common 
But is mortal’s Magnum Opus 
The season’s first snowman 
The burst of affection 
From hearts still without prejudice 
Let’s savour sweet laughter 
To treasure long after 
Its sparkle of pleasure subsides 
Let’s look if we’re able 
At love’s laden table 
Where Goodness and Mercy abides 

© Janet Martin 

Every so often while snowman was in the works
Little Girl would ask,
Hot chocolate, cookie time?
Finally 'not yet' turned to 'yes!'
making the treat so much sweeter for the waiting!




The faithful adorning 
Of beautiful morning 
As night’s bud bursts forth in fresh flowers 



Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, 
that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? 
Does He promise and not fulfill?


Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, 
the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion 
for a thousand generations of those who love Him 
and keep His commandments.


1 Corinthians 1:9
God, who has called you into fellowship 
with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.




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