Showing posts with label Josh Groban. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Josh Groban. Show all posts

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Everlasting Thanksgiving Feast

Happy Thanksgiving to  my American Friends 🦃💖🙏
and to everyone because with so much to be thankful for,
every day is a good day for giving thanks

Ps.119:89-91
Your word, O LORD, is everlasting;
it is firmly fixed in the heavens.
Your faithfulness continues through all generations;
You established the earth, and it endures.
Your ordinances stand to this day,
for all things are servants to You.

Jer.31:3
The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: 
“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; 
Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.

Ps.90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, 
Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, 
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

Today is like a table lowered, lavished with a feast...
(Some feast-fragments' that helped inspire today's poem/hymn)

For laughter, glorious laughter to counter life’s lack with cheer
For friends, for cups of tea while mirth and miseries are shared...
(the tea was what I have dubbed Garden Tea, Dried mint, lavender, fennel and marigold)




For hues that tell the season without calendars and such...





Like a place to call home-sweet-home,


 ...like love of families



Today is like a table lowered, lavished with a feast
Into the fray of circumstance mercy’s buffet is borne/born
Once more God bares His loving heart, for greatest to the least
Faithful and true, His grace imparts the majesty of morn
For love’s un-stoppered boundlessness, thankfulness overflows
For promises unaltered by the course of centuries
For smorgasbords of blessing to brighten world-full-of- woes
Like a place to call home-sweet-home, like love of families

For seasons not yet cast in Past’s Big Book of Moments Spent
For hope and joy and peace, by God’s eternal Word, secured
For joy still set before us until time’s frail veil is rent
And we behold the everlasting glory of the Lord
For laughter, glorious laughter to counter life’s lack with cheer
For friends, for cups of tea while mirth and miseries are shared
For wonder’s sheer delight that only God can commandeer
For elixir of poetry as ink-inklings are snared

For flowerpots, for curious tots with lots of questions why
For Duty’s common ground crowned by heaven-wide masterpiece
For the rare afternoon that hangs a hammock from the sky
And bids us climb aboard before dusk snuffs its glorious lease
For nature’s tapestries that awe the soul and stun our gaze
For tranquil woodland wander-lands free from wordy demands
For tea kettles that sing as if this is the-good-ole-days
For humble testimonies uttered my work-calloused hands

For kitchens heady with aromas, we will soon destroy
As we smack lips and scrape and lick dinner platters and trays
For Christmas-time-a-coming and glad tidings of great joy
For heads that bow and hearts that still and spill in thankful praise
For hues that tell the season without calendars and such
For dues that mortal reason will never quite apprehend/comprehend
For more than we can name or tame with thought’s deficient touch
We gather into worship hymns we pray will never end

Where today, like a table is lowered from He who fed
Lord, remind us that it is You who grants our daily bread
Lest we forget, and live as if the feast was self-attained
Behold, today is like a table, love and kindness-graced 
Behold, goodness and mercy flows, for greatest to the least
A smorgasbord of favors and flavors for us to taste  
Like honored guests at an Everlasting, Thanksgiving Feast 

© Janet Martin








Thursday, November 28, 2019

Grateful...(Happy American Thanksgiving Day!)

At 3:00 I was still trying to decide what I could make for supper
that could cook while I put a second coat of paint on the 'purple room'! 
When in menu limbo thaw ground beef.
so I did; 2 lbs.
 While it thawed in the microwave I scrubbed a few potatoes
 then tried to decide what next.
I chose meat-loaf, with baked potato-wedges and butternut squash
because this could bake at alike temps.
I put the meatloaf in for 45 min@325F before adding the pan of squash-potato.
I left it at 325F for an hour then reduced the heat around 6;00
because on Thursdays no one is home before 6:30.
Second coat of paint was done by 6:00
allowing time to make a spinach salad to complete the menu.


Meatloaf
2 lbs ground beef thawed.
I small onion chopped
3 or 4 bread-crusts, crumbled
1 teaspoon each of salt and black pepper
2 eggs
squirt each of ketchup and mustard (according to taste)
2/3 cup milk
Mix and press in pan
Baking instructions above
 (if using a deep loaf pan bake covered for 11/2 hrs at 350 then uncover for the last 15 minutes.)
I topped this meatloaf with a BBQ sauce when I uncovered it
1/3 cup ketchup
1tbsp. br. sugar
1 tsp. chili powder
I tsp (heaping) honey mustard 


Cut clean, dry potatoes into wedges. 
Peel and slice squash into 1/2" rings
place in buttered casserole dish
 sprinkle salt and pepper to taste
as well as paprika and
parsley flakes or fresh chopped parsley
another drizzle of butter and enough water just to cover bottom of pan
Cover with foil and bake 1 hour at 325/350F
Remove foil for the last 15 min.
Spinach Salad
base of baby spinach
topped with thinly sliced red and green cabbage
celery, chopped
toasted sunflower seeds and sliced almonds
dried cranberries
Leave dressing on side
I used a soy-sauce dressing
the recipe for a full batch is;
Mississippi Salad dressing
put in blender 3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup vinegar
3 tbsp. soy sause
1 tbsp black pepper
blend then slowly add 3/4 cup oil
 (I use 1/4 cup olive oil and 1/2 cup canola or veg. oil)
put in glass bottle or jar.
Lightly drizzle salad
refrigerate unused dressing


Grateful for goodness that graces the table
Grateful for strength to do what I am able
Grateful for mercies renewed every morn
Fields that were laden with harvest, now shorn
Flicker of leaf-lanterns strewn ‘neath our feet
November’s embers where earth and sky meet

Grateful for love that gives heartstrings a tug
Wood fire warmth, like a welcome home hug
Seasons that stir us then startle us, oh
Swift gifted shimmer from first bud to snow
Teaching us tenderly as time goes by
To look the moment at hand in the eye

Grateful for touch, for hands still within reach
Grateful for much love’s demands seem to teach
Grateful for blessings too countless to name
(God, my forgetfulness puts me to shame)
Day made for labour and night deigned for rest
Purpose that bids us strive to give our best

Grateful that God always faithful and true
Never stops caring for me and for you
Grateful to know His ways are always good
Even when His grace is misunderstood
Grateful, when trouble and heartache assails
To know no matter what, love never fails


© Janet Martin

Colossians 3:17
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed,
 do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, 
giving thanks to God and the Father by him.


Monday, October 14, 2019

Thankfulness...


Thankful...




 Thankfulness...

Leaves us breathless with sheer wonder
Grants us courage to proceed
Where God’s flawless displays thunder
Where nature’s pure pigments bleed

Wakes within us humble worship
Binds despair with hope’s kind gauze
Where an elemental courtship
Tugs us twixt will be and was

Hugs us with the arms of Jesus
Soothes the wounds of woe and dread
Gives us kind and tender reasons
To be filled with peace instead

Confounds us where explanation
Falls inept because of awe
Gratitude’s evaluation
Cannot perceive Mercy’s law

Makes us meeker, not self-seeking
Teaches us to hold, not clench
Makes us mind the words we’re speaking
Thirst for waters love can quench

Keeps us from becoming greedy
Thankfulness helps us admit
We are altogether needy
Recipients of grace; that’s it

© Janet Martin




Monday, December 3, 2018

Joy's Awesome Alloy; Emmanuel, 'God With Us'


Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: 
The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
Isa.7:14


 

What joy we find through Jesus
Too great to fully tell
Abiding Hope; ‘God with us’
 What love! Emmanuel

God with us and God for us
In Him love will not fail
Though the world wars against us
God’s promise will prevail

Never alone; His Spirit
To comfort, guide, reprove
And all who humbly hear it
Find peace and joy and love

What joy for all believers
Nothing can take the place
Of Hope we find in Jesus
Through love’s redeeming grace

Then sing! None can replace Him
Let earth and heaven blend
As hearts and voices praise Him
In worship without end


© Janet Martin


Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Humbly Glad For The Love I've Had...



 Sometimes I play this song to others,
Sometimes I play it to myself😏



I have been loved
What can I say?
In spite of my failures and fumbles
And stumbles and grumbles
And glaring flaws
I’m loved anyway

So, I’ll be humbly glad
For the love I’ve had…

While my track-record
Of foibles grows fat
And I’m middle-age
And likely won’t change
I’ve been hated
For far less than that

© Janet Martin