Thoroughfares of Retrospect

Our mind is the control tower of our life~

Charles Stanley

As we look back on another year almost spent

we traverse thoroughfares of retrospect, don't we?!

My, oh my-oh-my!

What a showcase of mistakes and mercies!

Sometimes it appears technology has

reduced attention-spans to tik-tok sized snippets!

How much is lost at great cost!!

Listening to a message like the one below 

means taking the time to turn off distractions

in order to fuel thought with good counsel!

So worth the time it takes!

Will you join the millions and millions who 

have taken the time to listen to this message?

Taking Control of your Thoughts- Charles Stanley

And if life does not allow the freedom right now to listen to the whole of it,

The first two minutes offer SO much to think about, 

until you have time for the remainder!

In retrospect we realize what matters does not change

Where guests that the mind entertains proves who we love the most

And though we cannot keep so much of what the years estrange

We can take careful charge of thought’s dinner-parties we host

And prepare with a wary heart, the table where Thought lolls

Before the hand reveals that part that the mind first cajoles

In retrospect we find what wise and fool's proof  cannot null

Who we love most is soon exposed by time’s tender romance

Who we revere and hold most dear is clearly visible

By what we choose and how we use the blessings that God grants

Where Thought is like a banquet table laden with buffets

Where so much good and so much bad can capture our gaze

In retrospect we see how swift time’s subtle shuttle flies

While tears and laughter spill, while we are often filled with awe

At lifetimes woven with the threads of dawn-to-dusk’s demise/disguise

Where thought is like an evil god if left to its own law

And ignorance is like a noose dangling from gallows where

Time’s subtle shuttles fly while Thought offers Fresh Thought a chair

In retrospect we oft admit we did not do our best

To bid Thought to pay sacred, meeker, and more earnest heed

To what God says rather than what Well-meaning Thoughts suggest

Where holiness, not happiness should be Thought’s primal greed

Because the lot of the undying soul is undeterred

Thus Thought should feed its dinner-guests with counsel from God’s Word

…where Thoroughfares of Retrospect spread out a humbling feast

For Thought is always hungry and the Tempter always near

And we concede at best Thought is a needy, bumbling beast

Subject to err without God’s Word to gird and commandeer

Therefore, no matter what befalls Thought’s menus to arrange

In retrospect we realize what matters does not change

© Janet Martin

Col.3:2

 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.