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Monday, March 6, 2023

Majestic Masterpiece (aka Mercy)


To the locals, no, this was not today!πŸ˜…πŸ˜…

The one below is this morning!! 
just as majestic...at second glance!

Gold-dipped daybreaks have been far and few between, the last few months!!
The first photo one of the few from mid-February!
But, whether gold or gray the Giver is the same, who grants each day

What a sound, 
like muffled thunder, 
or a rolling sea
must fill God's ears
as millions of feet touch down 
each morn on the faΓ§ade of eternity 

Yes, at first glance it appeared to be
'another lackluster dawn'
But a longer look transformed it...
and suddenly I was smitten with
a rekindled desire to taste 
in full its sparkle of moments
far too precious to waste



It rolls from age to age
Unruffled by the years
It sits at front and center stage
As night unveils its piers
To bear the brunt of feet
Where raring highs and lows
Of eternal import compete
Upon its fleeting pose

It gleams with hope’s appeal
And groans with hope’s despair
And laughs with hope’s replenished zeal
As worry yields to prayer
And hunger to the Must
That none can long ignore
But hounds Soul’s vestibule of dust
With wolves that stalk death’s door

It gleams with dreams reborn
From shards that love will purge
It rises on the mist of morn
Like a majestic verge  
To grant to mortal berth
Another worthy lease
As God plants on the face of earth
Mercy’s fresh masterpiece

Anchored in swells of change
A surf, where seasons shift
And circumstances rearrange
The turf, but not the gift
God siphons from the ash
Of Bygone’s lifeless fray
A jewel for yon eastward sash
A phoenix called Today

How oft we trample it
Underfoot without thought
While, all the while we sample it
With what God’s grace has wrought
Forbid we haste, unawed
By God’s mercy displayed
But as we waken, first applaud
This day that He has made

© Janet Martin

Well known, well-loved easily forgotten verses
that really bear daily repeating, don't they?!!πŸ’“πŸ™

Lam. 3:22-23
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;[a]
    his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;

    great is your faithfulness.

Psalm 118:24
This is the day the LORD has made; 
We will rejoice and be glad in it.

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