A week ago my cousin gifted me this midwinter splash of spring...
the initial inspiration for today's poem
For a taste of spring, when it's not!
and other simple pleasures...
Stick your nose into a tulip...
Page through gardens, picture-perfect
Waiting while the world blooms white...
Take a 'tropical' vacation
Via pages in a book...
Dream a summer celebration/destination
On the bank of frozen brook
Stick your nose into a tulip
Sip some lemon-spritzed delight
Page through gardens, picture-perfect
Waiting while the world blooms white
Take a tropical vacation
Via pages in a book
Dream a summer celebration
On the bank of frozen brook
Make the most of words like 'cozy'
Before tasks of sweat-and-till
Unearth work gloves resting easy
For a little longer, still
Stoke home-fires with thanksgiving
Thank God for warm, fuzzy socks
Say a prayer for people living
Under bridges in a box🙏💔
Be content to sing and putter
Make a decadent dessert
(never mind the extra butter) 😉😅
A few winter treats won't hurt
Chuckle at the chubby junco
Watch the birds without a clock
Dictating strict marching orders
With nothing but tick and tock
Pour a second 'second coffee'
Mindful of a subtle string
Drawing winter, like a tugboat
Closer and closer to spring
Tromp/ski through snow-swaddled creation
With an ear tuned to a clime
Where green and violet arrangements
Will emerge in perfect time
Though the sunshine, brief and sallow
Cannot melt the snowy strand
We know soon its warmer yellow
Will trump Old Man Winter's hand
So, stick your nose in a tulip
Sip some lemon-sparkly bliss
Page through gardens, picture-perfect
While the sun fine-tunes her kiss
Janet Martin
Pour a second 'second coffee'...
Chuckle at the chubby junco...
Magnificent, Marvelous, Matchless Love - Praise and Harmony
Lyrics
Song by Keith & Kristyn Getty
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love;
Too vast and astounding to tell.
Forever existing in worlds above,
Now offered and given to all.
Oh fountain of beauty eternal;
The Father, the Spirit, the Son.
Sufficient and endlessly generous:
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
Creation is brimming with thankfulness,
The mountains, exultant they stand;
The seasons rejoice in Your faithfulness,
All life is sustained by Your hand.
You crown every meadow with color;
You paint every shade in the sky;
Each day the dawn wakes as an encore of
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
How great, how sure;
His love endures forevermore.
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
What grace, that You entered our brokenness;
You came in the fullness of time.
How far we had fallen from righteousness,
But not from the mercies of Christ.
Your cross is our door to redemption;
Your death is our fullness of life.
That day, how forgiveness flowed as a flood:
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
How great, how sure;
His love endures forevermore.
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
United in Your resurrection,
You lift us to infinite heights.
Could anything sever or take us from
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
How great, how sure;
His love endures forevermore.
Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.
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I hope you enjoyed your pause on this porch and thank-you for your visit!