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Friday, July 12, 2024

To The Likes of Us


Each day is a little like a flower
that unfolds, blooms and fades, so fast!
A little like summer flowers, which
is why I am sharing another flower-garden meander today,
because this garden will not stay this way for long!







I like picturing God at daybreak,
with a watering can in his Hand
showering the earth with goodness and mercy!
Does that image fill you with
hope, joy and peace too?






Lowered to the likes of we
Through star-studded canopy
Rushing night’s dazzling veneer
Till its tea-lights disappear
God, so rich in mercy grants
A new day filled with fresh chance

To track records, vile and grim
As we disregarded Him
While we craved the fading fruits
Of this world’s grave-doomed pursuits
God so rich in love bestows
Daybreak, like a dew-kissed rose

Above our wayward bent
He unfolds a blush-gold tent
Grace affords to likes of we
Unmarred opportunity
Fills thoroughfares, still untrod
Lowered from the Hand of God

Thus, may the likes of us be
Thankful, with humility
Earth and sky thunders with Him
Where goodness and mercy brim
From God, patient, kind and true
To the likes of me and you

© Janet Martin

Isa.40:6-8
(read the whole glorious chapter HERE)

A voice says, “Cry out!”

And I asked, “What should I cry out?”

“All flesh is like grass,

and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

7The grass withers and the flowers fall

when the breath of the LORD blows on them;

indeed, the people are grass.

8The grass withers and the flowers fall,

but the word of our God stands forever.”e


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