Showcasing Time...

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!

Proverbs 13:4
The slacker craves yet has nothing, 

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.