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Monday, September 11, 2023

Ode to the Clay/Way of Shadow-fall

Off to a new day and a new week we go,
shoulder to shoulder, for better or worse!

and being mindful of a Shadow that will fall, for all of us...
and none of us knows when,
transporting us either to a life infinitely better than This
or a death infinitely worse!

Beauty is poised on joy’s wheel of surprises...


Wonder is waiting to win our praise...


Beauty is poised on joy’s wheel of surprises
Wonder is waiting to win our praise
While duty dusts off devotion’s disguises
While morning light restores earth to our gaze

Where God’s rich mercy, and great love still lavish
Longing and learning with wisdom’s increase
Where His Word waits to astonish/admonish and ravish
Would-be discouragement with hope and peace

Laughter will sparkle like sunlight on water
Kind words soft-spoken, will gladden a heart
While we, like clay in the hands of a Potter
Often are baffled by methods of art

Grappling with goodness that vexes our reason
Humbled by Incomprehensible Ways
Tuning ‘to-everything-there-is-a-season’
Dwindling the remnant robe of numbered days

While dust is stirred beneath musts we must shoulder
Shoulder to shoulder, a world full of ‘we
Weather the common ground of growing older
No matter how rich or poor we may be

Where Beauty, poised on the brink of beholding
Thunders in a wonderful free-for-all
Turning a wheel that is deftly unmolding/unfolding
A very subtle, sacred Shadow-fall

© Janet Martin


“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”











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