Happy 62nd Birthday, Jim
God bless you, guide you and protect you
as you roll and chug/plug down and up life's highway!
(literally and metaphorically)
My dear, the years keep hasting by
Where once upon green youth
We thought we had a lot of time
To learn life's changeless truth
And once upon far younger Thought
We dared Time's sleight of hand
By thinking somehow it would not
Heed Father Time's command
And in spite of what 'Old Folk' said
About how years unfold
With gathered speed, we tossed our heads
And winked, youth-and dream-bold
But now, with much more 'seasoned' stance
And sass and strut subdued
We take each new day that God grants
With humbler gratitude
...where, as spent sun-up and sun-down
Weathers youth's girl or boy
Pray we find in time's wizened crown
Sweet surprises of joy
Trading the fast-fading façade
Of face and form, my dear
For truer, purer love/awe for God
With every passing year
Counting, not loss, but gain, dear friend
And blessings beyond score
So that we cannot find the end
Of things we're thankful for
Love always, from your wife
Janet Martin
A blast from the past!!
Yesterday's Sunday morning message passage
is the perfect prayer for today and every day of the year!
Phil.1:9-11
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more
in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best
and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—
to the glory and praise of God.
