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Thursday, December 14, 2023

Juxta-precision (or Dust-to-Dust-pendulum)


In one week three friends from my church family
have bid their final, earthly farewell to a parent!
While still in the stage of going to friend's parent's visitation
it also serves as a solemn reality-check
 that our generation is surely, swiftly, subtly
 approaching the oldest-generation status; if God wills,
(Three-score-year and ten 
or by reason of strength four score years)
reminding us how fleet and short life 
is no matter how old we become!

The older we become, don't we tend to wring from today all we can
rather than looking back too long in longing, etc.
or looking anxiously ahead to what may or may never be?
Treasuring ever more dearly truths like these...??

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, 
so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, 
you will abound in every good work.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, 
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

We are enjoying a stretch of sunny days,
always treasured more after a stretch of unsunny ones!

Dusk shots from the past few eves...




both curtain close...
 and curtain rise have been stunning...


Twilight’s taking charged with giving, 
as dawn defeats death with living...



Swift each season rearranges 
common scenes with constant changes
Moment-momentous pendulum 
measures morn-to-morn momentum

Beauty’s buffet always laden, 
for today’s trek, always maiden
Twilight’s taking charged with giving, 
as dawn defeats death with living

Certain and Uncertain freshens 
curtain-rise-and-fall successions
Reaching, the ladder to earning, 
Teaching, the scaffold to learning

Greed, the gutter of temptation, 
Need, the flutter of salvation
Love, awe’s open arms embracing 
Today, flushed with God’s kind gracing

Time, a fluorescent wing beating 
a clime of farewell and greeting
Hope, faith’s undiminished flower 
In a yes-nope garden-bower

...where each season rearranges
common scenes with constant changes
Where a moment-ous pendulum 
Measures dust-to-dust's momentum 

...ere that last breath will deliver
Deathless Soul back to the Giver
And what remains is The Reck'ning
For what sustains today's beck'ning

© Janet Martin



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