Happy 2021!
And off we go,
Prayer by prayer
and
From this year's threshold as we wonder what 'landscape' 2021 waits to unfold, this:
Deut.11:11-12
But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of
is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven.
It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it
from the beginning of the year to its end.
Where nothing new under the sun waits to stun us with age-old ways
Where we dust off resolutions and vow to give God greater praise
Where we wonder at what will be just like we did a year ago
Before what at the first was hid but now joins Past’s vast picture-show
The threshold of the New is clean, where what has been greets what will be
Across time’s stage many a scene waits at the gates of history
Where what we do with what God grants will become part of a collage
That soon will join the soldered ranks of dreamlike echo-decoupage
Where we are at the mercy of far more than measures of a clock
Where still, the greatest of these, Love, will be a trusty building block
Where, tick by tock, already the lock to what waits to be has sprung
Where we stand on the threshold of Mercy renewed to old and young
Where, from its portal prayers take flight, from mortal to Immortal, oh
Where none would be fit for the fight but for God’s grace whereby we go
Where His power and discipline are meted, not in a lump sum
But as we need it, where He leads through in-betweens of The Outcome
Where buttercups and upsy-daisy will still spill their grin and groan
Where people will still drive us crazy and work wear us to the bone
Where God will never forsake-forget each and every one of us
Where both Time’s needle and its thread run through Mercy’s Perfect Because
Where we can fret and fuss and worry, but what good does it achieve
Dear God above, help us to love You enough to trust and believe
Then when this year (or perhaps this life) ends, who knows The unknown-ness
We can look back, as awe runs rife, at Mercy’s Perfect Faithfulness
© Janet Martin
Whispering Hope-Daniel O'Donnell and Mary Duff
"Where we dust off resolutions and vow to give God greater praise" - yes!
ReplyDeleteHappy 1st day of 2021!
Thank-you Sasha! If all else fails, never God so we can face 2021 with hope and confidence! Blessings to you on this first day!
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