Happy, happy New Year!
As I was working on today's poem I replied to a Facebook comment
on the previous post...I am Thinking of you, my dear Lucy
And shared with my friend a half-awake-half-asleep dream.
The ambience of that 'dream' helped inspire today's poem!
By this 'dream' I was reminded afresh;
God has inconceivable joys forevermore in store
for all who believe in Him, when we reach Yonder Shore!
In my 'dream' I suddenly had a 'picture/vision' of God smiling and whispering
'if you could only imagine the joys I have in store for followers of Me!!'
and I had this sense of blinding white-gold glory
and absolute comfort and peace.
Hard to describe.
But it has cheered me immensely.
The Race of Faith
Heb.12:1-2
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us,
and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
So now into another year we sail...
Dear Mariner of Time, dread not the gale
For hope, through Jesus Christ, anchors the soul
And faith in Him assures us of the Goal
Without a doubt storms wait with shrieking blast
Without a doubt death's shadow will be cast
Without a doubt the sun also will shine
To warm and cheer us, Mariners of Time
The Voyage from the cradle to the grave
Is one each Mariner of Time must brave
Where Telescope of Sight and Logic strains
But cannot see what only faith attains
Into another year we sail, ahoy
And wonder what will come, of grief and joy
Dear Mariner of Time, dread not the course
No fate can take vessels of faith by force
The Captain of faith's fleet will never fail
And though He tests the rigging with the gale
Dear Mariner of Time, each Tempest Sore
Sweetens and keens faith's fervour for the Shore
© Janet Martin
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