Collections of Today or (of Eternal Unreachable)

Today, the page on which every life-story is written!

A bevy of birds and blooms

cheers this time of year's incessant duty with beauty!!

Unreachable, the poses exhumed from Past’s picture-show

Untouchable, the roses that bloomed a summer ago

Unmovable, unchangeable, scenes of spent seasons splay

In an un-rearrangeable Collection of Today

Yesterday's lifeless embers cannot warm the outstretched hand

An empire of echoes is naught but a shadowland

So then, ere dusk erases what will never more return

Of today’s tender graces and of lessons yet to learn

...of names still warm with faces we can touch and cup and kiss

Before Framed Font/Want replaces Today’s Very Present ‘This’

Still very rife with reason at the mercy of Because

Before the soldered season of Collections of What Was

Let's live as if today was all we have, for so it is

Each hour rolling like a wave tolling Past's Genesis   

Composing the unchangeable, irretrievable play

Of eternal, unreachable Collections of Today

© Janet Martin

1 Tim.4 BSB

Godly Exhortation for Today...

Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith

 to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, 

2influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, 

whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods 

that God has created to be received with thanksgiving

 by those who believe and know the truth.

  4For every creation of God is good, 

and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected, 

5because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

6By pointing out these things to the brothers, 

you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus,

 nourished by the words of faith 

and sound instruction that you have followed.

7But reject irreverent, silly myths.

 Instead, train yourself for godliness

. 8For physical exercise is of limited value, 

but godliness is valuable in every way, 

holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

  9This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance.

10To this end we labor and strive,a 

because we have set our hope on the living God, 

who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe. 

11Command and teach these things.

12Let no one despise your youth, 

but set an example for the believers 

in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. 

13Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, 

to exhortation, and to teaching.

14Do not neglect the gift that is in you,

 which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you 

at the laying on of the hands of the elders. 

15Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, 

so that your progress will be evident to all. 

16Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. 

Persevere in these things, 

for by so doing you will save both yourself 

and those who hear you.