This past year felt a bit like a blur of one sorrow after another,
Dec. 14 marked eight months since the loss of my neighbour/friend.
Dec. 15, marked one month since my husband's mother passed to her desired rest,
And today, Dec.17, marks three months since I lost one of my beloved sisters, Lucy.
and many lost a friend,
but through deep grief I have time and again been speechlessly
overcome with joy through the comfort of promises from God's word and through
the compassion of so many caring family, friends and neighbours
leaving in its wake a multitude of kinder, more tender friendships.
As we partake rather than flee from bearing one another's burdens
and so fulfilling the law/love of Christ, (Gal.6:2)
He surprises us with unsurpassed joy
In the morning, O LORD, You hear my voice;
at daybreak I lay my plea before You and wait in expectation.
Lord, leave me overcome with joy
No words can quite define
No circumstance can quite destroy
Nor sorrow undermine
Lord, as I lift my eyes to Thee
From earth's groaning employ
Remind me that mortality
Precedes eternal joy
Console me with the glorious thought
Of joy still set before
Until a joy I had not sought
Surprises sorrows sore
And fills the longings of my heart
With joy beyond compare
And faith to face the cunning art
Of stumbling block and snare
Permit a humbler joy be born
Upon my bended knee
As I lift up my plea each morn
Then wait expectantly
Amen
~Janet Martin
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