Beyond the Gold and Blush of Dawn...

Ah, look! The book of days reopens to a spotless page

A wellspring of love’s wonder beckons us to center stage...

Behold, the gold and blush rampart where dark of night abates

Where more than welkin works of art fling wide dawn’s gleaming gates

But rather, like an altar call, to all of humankind

To love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, strength and mind

We are His workmanship; in I AM’s sacred image made

His word alone fit to equip us not to be afraid

For He is always with us our ‘Onward’ to attend

He watches our footsteps for He is a faithful friend

All hail the hope that the Creator mastered in His plan

Where truth is not bespoken, catering to whims of man

And love is not a fashion statement pleasing vanity

But unselfish and patient with modest humility

Ah, love commits to daily dying to learn how to live

Its law guards against gods defying the command to ‘give’

It sees beyond the bond of duty and earth’s brief reward

To precious, promised beauty of 'forever with the Lord’

Ah, look! The book of days reopens to a spotless page

A wellspring of love’s wonder beckons us to center stage

To perform acts of kind compassion and obedience

To live out this life’s ration, mindful of the recompense

What waste, the sorry hasting to fill this world’s transient trove

Or hunger bent on tasting what is never quite enough

But what joy beyond measure when we yield our heart and soul

To He who grants the treasure of the faith that makes us whole

What pure and glad assurance mediates anxiety

As we run with endurance to the joy that waits to be

Beyond the gold and blush divide where dark of night abates

Where gates to endless day swing wide where God in Heaven waits

© Janet Martin

Matt.6:9-13

After this manner therefore pray ye:

Our Father which art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, 

forever. 

Amen.

1 Thess.4:16-18

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, 

with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, 

and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. 

After that, we who are alive and remain 

will be caught up together with them 

in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

 And so we will always be with the Lord.