Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog: A Let-list

(playing in the old bathtub waiting to be hauled away...)

The older I get, the more I cherish moments of laughter...

...welcome relief to the toll love's constant care/prayer can take,

as the wellspring of laughter is not drained,

but sustained by 'the joy still set before us'!

Below, Baby Brother looks longingly as if wishing he could participate

in more than simply being a spectator...

(but that would mean leaving mommy, something he is not fond of😅💖)

Let the music of sweet laughter kindly comfort creature care

In the lessons love must suffer, let not hope yield to despair

Through the thick and thin of learning (something we never outgrow)

Let us never cease from turning to the One who loves us so

No matter what pains and grieves us, as life’s troubles train and fret

God is good; He never leaves us in the rubble of regret

Or to the brutal archrival of He whom deserves all laud

Let His unfailing love cheer us as we learn to trust His lead

Oh, what peace to know He hears us when for steadfast faith we plead

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus; His Word our joy sustains

Rather than what never pleases or eases Want’s hunger pains

Let us look with humble fervor to the needs of fellowmen

Let us live to serve our Saviour with all that He grants. Amen

Let us run with firm endurance the race that is set before

Until faith’s blessed assurance turns to sight forevermore

Heb.12:1-3

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,

let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us,

and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

2looking unto Jesus, the [a]author and [b]finisher of our faith,

who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross,

despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

3For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself,

lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.

Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog