But By The Grace Of God ABC's

  

If you still feel grumpy after this song, well then I'm not sure what to recommend other than, 

listen to it again!!;-))

Sometimes it is SO easy to get upset with politicians, people who do things against our beliefs and preferences, but if we remember the grace of God to us it reminds us to offer this same grace to others.

But by the grace of God we are...

Able,

Blessed,

Compassionate,

Diligent,

Equal,

Forgiven,

Gracious,

Humble,

Important,

Joyful,

Kind,

Loving,

More,

Noble,

Obedient,

Precious,

Quieted,

Remorseful,

Saved,

Trustworthy,

Understanding,

Virtuous,

Wise,

X-pedient,

Yielded,

Zealous 

Janet Martin

This is one version. You might enjoying writing your own!

As we continue the study What's So Amazing About Grace

I am impacted over and over at its profound fullness and power.

Pray what we glean is more than head-knowledge.

Another Autumn ABC

Apple-boughs bend ‘neath the bounty of Red

Birch-leaf-shaped butterflies flutter by, gold

Candle-light flickers on limbs overhead

Dusk drips from lintels daylight cannot hold

Earth is a Masterpiece hung from the sky

Flower-like petals settle, paper-plush

Gilding streets with summer’s lost lullaby

Halo of heaven crowns bramble and brush

Is there a poem more perfect than this?

Jaded arrangements of wild, wind-swept vine

Kiss of a rain-runnel, smoky blue bliss

Love songs and laughter and tears intertwine

Marmalade mosaics stipple earth’s sod

Nature holds nothing back; its poets swoon

Orchestral lyrics penned by none but God

Pumpkin-pie happiness tickles poised spoon

Quilt-tatters scatter, rainbow splattered shroud

Row after row of harvest disappears

Skein of wild-geese skims yon-scrim of low cloud

Trees shed their glory like youth sheds its years

Under an awning of autumnal blaze

Vermilion rivers rush beneath our feet

Whispering echoes of fleet, sun-steeped days

X-tracting flavors of life, bitter-sweet

Young to old pause, awestruck by nature’s throng

Zenith of praise swells in Hallelujah-song

© Janet Martin

Autumn ABC's

 OctPoWriMo day 12

Applause of leaf is brief, my darling

Bric-a-brac of seasons spill

Causing balladeers to ponder

Death and life and time’s quadrille

Everything is ‘but a season’

Flowers flourish, fade and fall

God, the Keeper of earth’s garden

Heaps the deep with seeded hull

Intimate, nature’s undoing

Jars joy-sorrow intertwined

Keening Consciousness pursuing

Love-loss-longing’s heart-soul-mind

Mulled moments meld gold to crimson

Naked nods the ravished bloom

Opulence transposed; each petal

Plays a swansong on spring’s womb

Quiet quickens clapping coppice

Russet rivers rush beneath

Shadows draining summer’s waning

Tress upon tempest-tossed heath

Umber skeletal umbrellas

Vex wind-minstrels; poetry

Washes worlds, once full of leaf-song

Xylophone-like gong sets free

Yellow, garnet, bronze-keyed skylines

Zephyrs strum their melody

© Janet Martin

A Word on a Page...

A word on a page spawns an infinite stage

Beckoning to the believer of ink

Curved curious creatures, a semblance of letters

Dares to reveal what we dream; what we think

Each author hears a different diction

Fiction or memoir; fantasy, fact

Groaning within us until we deliver

Heartache and hope in a word’s glorious pact

Its invitation evokes inspiration

Juxtaposed union of sorrow and joy

Keening our senses with fire and frustration

Love, loss and longing their legions deploy

Muting the minute hand; muzzling mere moments

Nothing can null the intent of their will

Oceans of thought swirl in ink-drop deliverance

Passion and poetry savagely spill

Quickening pulses or quieting worry

Raging like rivers or melting like mist

Skimming a surface of plain parchment paper

Torment and tiralee; loneliness kissed

Unearthing thought with the twist of a letter

Vexing, perplexing, then wildly set free

Word; are there any more beautiful; better?

X-ray of heart revealed in your melee

You seem inconspicuous; wee word on a page

Zenith of thought fills your infinite stage

© Janet Martin

Our home-work assignment in our Writer’s Group is to write an ‘alphabetical order piece’ starting with the phrase ‘a word on a page’. Our next meeting isn’t until January so I decided to play with the prompt this morning.

My Mother ABC's

  

Angel-in-disguise

Beautiful baker and believer

Compassionate caregiver and cook

Diligent and devoted

Empathetic, energetic

Faithful and fervent

Godly,gentle, gracious gardener

Humble, happy homemaker

Industrious

Joyful

Kind

Loving and laughing laundress

Modest, merciful meal-maker

Noble, non-judgmental

Ordinary to others, extra-ordinary to me

Praying, prudent, patient

Quilter, quiet listener

Reader,  

Selfless server, seamstress, singer

Tender, thoughtful teacher,

Understanding, utmost blessing on earth

Virtuous voice of reason

Wise, wonderful,

X-ample

Youthful, (even in her 70’s)

Zealous for God

I love you, Mom.

Thank-you for being an example that we can look to for anything!

Janet~