Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Sacred Spree


Don't you find the older we get the more we realize each birthday is a gift.
Celebrating 56 years of God's goodness today💝

Yesterday my sister Lucy took this photo...


(a little pre-birthday outing with one of our daughters and her children;
her birthday is tomorrow!)


We dropped in to see the sheep someone is boarding at their place...
Oh!!! they are so cute and comical!

The older we get the more we cherish life's simplest pleasures...
(below; a few recent priceless pleasures)



(above) Making Rhubarb Squares😋








As days to years amass
As they pass through our skin
We sense in us an hour glass
Of sparkles growing thin
And though we cannot see
How many glints remain
We know that soon eternity
Will make the hidden plain
When dust to dust returns
And the Soul back to God
When Choice its last consequence earns
Beyond time’s frond of sod

…but for now, we are here
How sacred is this spree
Where life and love endow each year
With opportunity
Where, by the grace of God
We do not need to dread
The highs and lows we yet must trod
In the veiled road ahead
Then, with courage renewed
By mercy’s kind bequest
May humble, holy gratitude
Equip us for the rest/test

This transient tapestry
This season-metered flit
Is but a blip before we see
The other side of it
This bit of groan and grin
This prelude to the whole
This hourglass beneath our skin
Dwindles to Deathless Soul
Where ere one moment spilled
God numbered all the strands
Needed to weave each life He willed
Back to the Giver’s hands

© Janet Martin


Teach us to number our days, 
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:12

...redeeming the time, because the days are evil
Ephesians 5:16





2 comments:

  1. "We sense in us an hour glass
    Of sparkles growing thin" -
    so beautiful! Made me think of Peter Pan and Tink with her pixie dust. Thank you for the glorious post Janet, and many happy returns!

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    1. thank-you so much Sasha.<3! LOVE the Peter Pan imagery:)

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I hope you enjoyed your pause on this porch and thank-you for your visit!