With Mercy Renewed

 

Once more we hoist hope's painful glory, taut with testing gales

Aren't you thankful God is greater?! His love never fails!

Into the mist of circumstance hope hoists a stalwart sail

With Mercy Renewed we advance to face today’s fresh gale

Where Faith bids us to forge ahead in spite of Unknown’s haze

As highs and lows of joy and dread author protest and praise

Where touch and taste enhance what it cannot quite satisfy

Where we can choose to dance or shake a fist in mean reply

Where what we stand or fall for is of vital gravity

The tempted and the tempter look a lot like you and me

And nothing is too commonplace to slip between the cracks

Of giants that we have to face and enemy attacks

Thus, we cannot afford to rush into the day at hand

Until we beckon to the Lord to be First in Command

For many perils lurk and many vices wait to snare

And many upsets irk us in this life so full of care

Where everything we strive for is worth nothing much at all

If everything we live for is so very temporal

Where both beauty and broken play a painful, precious part

In shaping natures human into ‘blessed pure in heart’

Where we would grow so weary doing the good, that we (should) do

Without trusting a dear and faithful God/Guide to help us through

For life is not a game of chance and love/God will never fail

Into the mist of circumstance hope hoists a stalwart sail

With Mercy Renewed, we embark once more into the fray

The God of Moses parts the dark and we are on our way

© Janet Martin

Abide With Me

Isa.40:28-31

Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He will not grow tired or weary,

and his understanding no one can fathom.

29 He gives strength to the weary

and increases the power of the weak.

30 Even youths grow tired and weary,

and young men stumble and fall;

31 but those who hope in the Lord

will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint.