Roses in waiting...
A few glimpses at today's inspiration
Thanks to devotions from the book Consolation
mentioned HERE
Matt. 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our troubles,
so that we can comfort those in any trouble
with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
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Forbid sorrow's tears should harden the plot where thought's power flows
But like raindrops on a garden, let it grow compassion's rose
Let their sacred torrent soften the places not tender yet
Let it seep to deeps that often we ignore, secrete, forget
Forbid grief to blind perception as love's bitter dregs we taste
Or to wallow in depression like a garden laid to waste
But to shoulder sorrow's anguish like a soldier of the cross
Rather than flounder or languish in a labyrinth of loss
Forbid sorrow's reason reckons, only earth-side's view, so dim
Never hearing He who beckons mourners to call/fall upon Him
Never growing in Grief's Garden anything but hopeless gloom
Letting sorrow's teardrops harden the plot where roses would/could/should bloom
Our Father, up in Heaven, hallowed be Thy perfect Name
Pray, through sorrow we are driven to the One from whence we came
Pray, through grief our eyes are opened to Time's Very Fleeting Nod
Till our grip on earth is loosened by a tighter hold on God
Who can understand our suff'ring better than God, rich in love
He who through Sin's Final off'ring left no merit yet to prove
He who purchased our pardon and bore sorrow's climax knows
Tears, like raindrops on a garden, are but watering Love's Rose
© Janet Martin
Also inspired by today's Daily Bread devotion HERE
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