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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

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.


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