Measure of Mortality...

May and June are months for us, that include many milestone celebrations,

reminding us to cherish each other while we may,

and trust the Hands that measure out our

mortality...before immortality!

1 Cor.15:54

When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable,

 and the mortal with immortality, 

then the saying that is written will come true:

 “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

I LOVE misty, minty-green June mornings

a-dazzle with dewdrops!

Our measure of mortality

Our sum of numbered days

Are not ordered by you or me

But by God's perfect ways

The author of each life ordains

Its beginning and end

The sacred part between remains

That for which we contend

Not for our own merit or worth

But by the grace of He

Who made the heavens and the earth

Who fashioned you and me

…and measures our mortality

With love beyond our ken

Whose thoughts and ways are trustworthy

Forevermore. Amen

Fleet measure of mortality

Frail veil of breath between

The entrance to eternity

And the part that is seen  

© Janet Martin

2 Cor.4:18

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, 

since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Rom.11:33-36

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God

! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?

Or who has become His counselor?”

35 “Or who has first given to Him

And it shall be repaid to him?”

36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, 

to whom be glory forever.

 Amen.