IT Is What IT Is...

We enjoyed celebrating Jim's 60th birthday yesterday...

Sometimes we say ‘IT is what IT is’

With morose resignation

As if IT held no promises

Worthy of celebration

As if IT didn’t burst from buds

In petal-wild profusion

Or drench June worlds in purple floods

Of wild phlox absolution

As if IT did not overflow

With mercies, new each morning

Or leave a Light in the window

For a loved one returning

Or bake a birthday cake or pie

Or scatter summer showers

Like silver laughter from the sky

To quench the thirst of flowers

Or weave, where winsome echoes waft

Fair scenes, love fondly misses

Or, for each hard knock, a sweet, soft

Memento warm with kisses

Or, strew in the blue wake of years

Grace, green with spring’s caressing

As if IT did not dry our tears

And cheer us with fresh blessing

As if IT didn’t steal our breath

With thankful exclamation

Because God made a way so death

Is no vague destination

As if IT offered nothing more

Than doleful growing-older

No picnics, gardens or seashore

No  friend-to-lean-on shoulder

As if ‘ IT is what IT is’ was

A sorry state of guesses

Rather than love’s thundering applause

For all IT’s happiness-es

Rather than Time's unsullied page

When a new day is breaking

As if IT did not set the stage

For memories-in-the-making 

© Janet Martin

Our grandchildren were SO excited to give him their

silly cards so we could all laugh 😂💝

 A fantastic cover of Alan Jackson's song

The Older I Get 💓

 

Ps.71:8-9

My mouth is filled with Your praise

and with Your splendor all day long.

9Do not discard me in my old age;

do not forsake me when my strength fails.