Room of Doors

How wonderfully heart-warming it is to recall a life well-lived, in faithfulness to God.

But how very common, unpopular and unglamorous is the living of such a life,

ignoring the lure of many a wink with eyes fixed on One Door (to eternity)

that once again God's mercy holds ajar in a new day of grace!

The grace of God implores 

with love that will not fail

Where life is like a room of doors where choice and onus hail

Where seasons rise and fall 

like wave rolls over wave

Until our final port of call is back to God who gave

We share in common this,

 kiss of humanity

As wail of earthly genesis births immortality

Where Mist of Mortal Must, 

is tethered to a toll

Beneath the sheath of dust to dust resides the deathless soul

Ah, it is not enough 

to do the best we can

Or confess that we love, but only by measure of man

For all love comes from He 

who alone authors life

Each breath flirts with eternity like thread skimming a knife

The grace of God implores 

where goodness and love brim

Behold! life’s little room of doors begins and ends with Him

Time’s wave of corridors 

where seasons rise and fall

 Rolls swiftly o'er grave-stubbled shores to the Soul’s port of call

The grace of God implores 

and wills a new day's toll

Ah, pity the one that ignores the Savior of the Soul

The Way, the Truth, The Life; 

there is no other Door

Save one; where remorse will run rife forever, evermore 

© Janet Martin

John 1:4
In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. 

We have seen His glory, 

the glory of the one and only Son 

from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

John 10:9
I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. 

He will come in and go out and find pasture.

John 11:25
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. 

Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.

 No one comes to the Father except through Me.