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Monday, June 15, 2020

This Sacred Life

Happy Half-way Through June
...a month always gone-too-soon!


...and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
 and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Eccles.12:7

This sacred life, each breath not like sands strewn upon the shores of time
But threads that weave the treads we celebrate and grieve as up we climb
Where all too soon the sun and moon and stars shall dim their lofty flame

This sacred life oft runs too rife with critics and ways to condemn
Rather than servants ministering like The Good Samaritan
Oh Lord, convict us lest we fall prey to the pomp and show of pride
Rather than bear hate’s stripes and scorn in honour of The Crucified

This sacred life is like a flicker on the wick of Evermore
A prelude filled with bickering and battles where faith and fear war
Before a stone-cold door swings shut on all but Death’s Great Mystery
As our last breath gives way to the on-ness of Immortality

This sacred life, how dare we raise a fist to fellowman or God
But cling with humble reckoning to He who cups sky, sea and sod
Where grace and discipline are rendered by a tender Rod and Staff
By He who did not spare His Son but gave Him up on our behalf

To be the Saviour of the Soul; ah, this instills that sacred chord
Where views will be distorted if not seen through the lens of God's Word
For He so loved the world He gave His only Son to pay the price
As sin’s ransom once and for all; we are saved through love’s sacrifice

This sacred life, bought with the blood of king of kings and Lord of lords
Is a gift to be treasured, not fought with the smite of word-shaped swords
Oh Lord, forgive we who forget and wield a tyrant’s hateful knife
To hurt rather than help a precious fellow-mate of sacred life

© Janet Martin

I wrote this yesterday morning after listening to this video...


... just before this message below from one of our ministers at WBC
explaining a parable I have often puzzled over!
Thank-you Richard!

both reminding us of the sacredness of this SHORT life
of numbered days