Thursday, May 1, 2025

Preludes to Amen... or, Today

Happy, Happy green, gold and blossom-pink
month of May!



This cheery. warbling songster enticed me from my cozy slumber to greet the day and May!



Have you ever longed to rush the ways
 of wisdom or nature;
to become wise overnight
instead of weathering/suffering growth
like a tree or a child?

In order for a flower
to mature into full bloom
it cannot skip one step of the development
and unfolding;
so too with faith and wisdom

***
Last fall my cousin  gave me some money as a gift to buy
a keepsake plant in memory of Lucy.
I chose a few 'special' peonies.
(in memory of my peony/flower-loving sister)
I wish I could hurry them into
big, beautiful bushes of full bloom,
but I cannot.
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we cannot hasten growing things..
a tree,
a child,
the wisdom
that experience brings

better to live with patience then
rather 
than push
or try to rush
God's gracious hand
*Amen~

© Janet Martin

God does not give us surplus strength
we can store up for tomorrow,
nor knowledge that usurps faith,
nor detours, shortcuts or bypasses
to His commands in his Word
in an attempt to hurry the gain of His blessing...

...and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
Deut.33:25
 
*My, how very special and sacred then, is Today
because by each 'amen' lifetimes are born! 

Sometimes, in the heat of hello 
and farewell's beck and call
Of morn-to-eve-tides ebb and flow 
in seamless rise and fall
Where sun and shadow ups and downs 
Like friends and strangers meet
And bittersweet, its artwork crowns
Both triumph and defeat

...sometimes we tend to overlook
or undermine the way
These fill the pages of life's book
Entitled thus, Today
And, how each Good we wish would be
is worth the work/wait, though hard
 As faith believes, but does not see
As love learns no holds barred 

So, better, than to analyze
details of dust-to-dust
 Or air the grievances of 'why's
better turned into trust
Pray, we press on with humbler heed
to what we do and say
Because the fruit of scattered seed
begins again, Today 

What universal, noble cause
anoints each morn-to-morn
Hark! mercy breaks dawn's seal of gauze
As new Today is borne/born
From God to man and back again
filled with responses, where 
Pray, preludes to today's 'amen'
are filled with thankful prayer 

© Janet Martin

Rom.13:8-14
8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, 
for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. 
9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,”
 “You shall not murder,” 
“You shall not steal,” 
[b]“You shall not bear false witness,”
 “You shall not covet,” 
and if there is any other commandment, 
are all summed up in this saying, namely, 
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor;
 therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

11 And do this, knowing the time, 
that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; 
for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. 
Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, 
and let us put on the armor of light. 13 
Let us walk [c]properly, as in the day, 
not in revelry and drunkenness, 
not in lewdness and lust, 
not in strife and envy. 
14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, 
and make no provision for the flesh, 
to fulfill its lusts.

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