All Aboard (on our way to meeting the Lord)

Happy Birthday, Jim!

A glimpse at his view this morning!

(from New Jersey and New York)

I wonder how many miles Jim has traveled in 37 years of truck-driving!

Today Jim has reached the milestone of 59 years of life!

What a blessing, not to be taken for granted!

 

Whether viewed over the hood of a truck or otherwise,

the scenery of our lives is as varied and diverse as the journeys,

Some reject the Conductor, others revere and love Him, but

all will appear before Him when we come to the end of life's journey,

where one of two eternities awaits;

 forever with Him or forever separated.

With Him= forever joy, life and light/Day.

Without Him = forever anguish, death and darkness.

Mark 16:16

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, 

but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

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All aboard, cries the Conductor as the new-born baby cries

As the first breath births life’s journey of the Soul that never dies

From He, who our days has written before one has come to be

From God, the Giver and Taker of fleeting mortality

Courses the measure of moments, tick by tock its torrent flows

Forcing the child soon to grapple with the thorns beneath the rose

All aboard, cries the Conductor at the portal of sunrise

Rife with life’s inevitable ups and downs of lows and highs

Subtle carousel of seasons spins, and spills what soon is spent

My, how sacred is our answer to He who life’s lease has lent

Where love is His utter reason, while faith musters flying leaps

No passenger is forgotten in the promises He keeps

All aboard, cries the Conductor. Only He/God can see the whole

How near is the final station/Destination where dust is brushed from the Soul

Thus, we at the faithful mercy of God’s goodness, truth and grace

Ought to ponder oft the moment when we meet Him face to face

Careful in how we maneuver every hill and hairpin curve

For this is how we will prove who we believe and who we serve

All aboard, cries the Conductor, as onto dawn’s car we climb

Where today some will be ushered from This Thoroughfare of Time

Thus, we should regard with honor every opportunity

To be loving to each other, fellow travelers are we

Until one by one each swaying, Soul-hinged pendulum is stilled

As each day of grace, prewritten has been offered and fulfilled

Hark, across Time's landscape tolls the holy call of, 'all aboard!'

On this very sacred passage, on our way to meet the Lord

© Janet Martin

Psalm 139:14-16

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

15My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place,

when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

16Your eyes saw my unformed body;

all the days ordained for me were written in your book

before one of them came to be.

Sometimes when Jim calls me

he is parked at a railway waiting for the train to pass...

Life Railway to Heaven

over the years there's been a lot of this...

(exchanging empty thermos and lunch-bag for full)