Your Faithfulness, Oh Lord, Our God

Oh God, our Help in Ages Past

In some homes/nests (after chatting with a few young moms recently)

 little birdies wake at the crack of dawn

and it isn't long before mummy and/or daddy's wings already feel frayed and frazzled 

and it isn't even 9:00 a.m.! 

In other nests little birdies have grown up and flown the coop/ shelter of parental wings...

and all they can do is look up to He who careth for them 

and ask Him to cover their 'beloved birdies' with the feathers of His wings 

and protect them from a world full of danger and evil, 

some of it so enticingly (and popularly) on display!

The God of the ages is faithful!

The God of Mother Mary is faithful to mothers and fathers

grandparents and great-grandparents the world over

to all who put their trust in Him

Your faithfulness, oh Lord, our God

Is our hope and stay

Where change wields its insistent rod

You do not shift or sway

Your faithfulness, man's very present 

Help in time of need

It eclipses the circumstance

To kindly intercede

Your faithfulness is heaven-high

Your judgments ocean-deep

No fragment of Your truth slips by

That you forget to keep 

Your faithfulness attunes in us

Love's meeker melody

Hope, through heartache, the genesis

Of perfect harmony

Your faithfulness, the Wing that draws

Us where Your Law/love presides

And we can rest secure because

Your faithfulness abides

© Janet Martin

Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; 

Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Psalm 36:5

He will cover you with his feathers, 

and under his wings you will find refuge; 

his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

Psalm 91:4

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, 

and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. 

Are you not much more valuable than they?

Matt.6:26