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Friday, December 30, 2022

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?


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

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


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