Over and over we ask this question,
without ever really expecting an answer, right?!😅
'Where does the time go?!!'
already almost mid-September?!
How can it be?!
Last week my granddaughter,
during a tea-break gasped,
" Grandma!, what happened to the garden?!!"
"Harvest", I replied.
"We brought in all the potatoes and onions!"
No matter what we are doing we are planting and/or harvesting!
We reap what we sow!
but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
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Today's 'time' was spent at church this morning,
prepping food for a funeral tomorrow,
then a bit of this and that at home this afternoon,
including starting to harvest marigold and lavender
for hopefully lots and lots more tea-breaks to come!
A splash of summer sunshine in a cup
while winter gales howl...
I cannot hear or feel or see
Where you go as you slip through me
…each day, a little like a door
To what has never been before
A dissonance of highs and lows
Of gates agape and curtain-close
Of lissome waltz and trip-and-fall
Of grinning, groaning beck-and-call
Your seasoned tide of seasons, rife
With encounters that turn to ‘life’
Where nothing I can do or say
Will keep you from slipping away
Above my head, beneath my feet
Through skin-and-bone-cradled heartbeat
Into a place I cannot see
An intangible gallery
...of moments, melding as they fall
To pictures on a phantom wall
Showcasing you, a pantomime
Of once-upon-what-once-was-time
© Janet Martin
A verse to live by while time allows and the secret to happiness...
Prov.16:20
He who heeds the word wisely will find good,
And whoever trusts in the LORD, happy is he.
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