Anticipating Awe!

Yesterday I read the question, 

What Are You Looking Forward to...?

Isn't anticipation one of life's most fantastic joys?!
(plus, it helps to temper disappointment
and the weight of dread which inevitably at times, must be!)

I can't wait for…

  

The plush plip-plop of lush rain-drop

Studding green leaf with gems like glass

The soft slip-slap as bare feet dash

To splash through dust on garden paths

Where cotton clouds waft aloft, soft

Above the linen-laden line

Of trousers, shirts, towels, summer skirts

Hob-knobbing with warm, gold sunshine

The petal show of red, yellow

Purple, blue, pink and white, oh my,

God’s work of art can steal the heart

And admiration of the eye

And I can’t wait to see the gate

Embellished with jasmine run wild

And kiss the face of Queen Ann’s lace

As well as sun-bronzed summer’s child

The luxury of late day tea

While swallows dart and dip and dive

The brawny buzz of cicadas

The lazy hush (or crazy rush) of half-past five

And I can’t wait to fill my plate

With fresh-picked-from-the-garden hue

Or run my gaze across the trays

Where summer spills old thrills anew

© Janet Martin

Awed By God

Yesterday at the eye doctor I was introduced to a more in-depth look at the human eye;

...its complexity an incomprehensible miracle! 

(if you are interested do your own research!)

Here are a few links...

The Human Eye - God's Miracle of Design

The 'EYE' :The Evidence for creation - Evolution debunked!!! 

God or Evolution? Look at the human eye & decide for yourself! 

 I'm sure each sense, when explored, would fully awe!

 

Colossians 1:16
For in Him all things were created, 

things in heaven and on earth, 

visible and invisible, 

whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. 

All things were created through Him and for Him.

The handiwork of He who cups

The magnitude of life and death

Stuns us where livings downs and ups

Spill to a stage that steals our breath

He shakes above earth’s hills and lakes

Blush, blue, gray heavens, ethereal

And everywhere we look He wakes

The essence of life’s miracle

The energies of wind and rain

Of sun and night and day declare

The manifestation of Him

Jehovah-God is everywhere

Human is not born atheist

Consider the eye’s grand design

…how it beholds gold, amethyst

Of bloom that bobs on breeze-strummed vine

Of trees that lob their leafy lay

Until its season-song is stripped

Where height and depth of day-to-day

Is star-frothed, cloud-clothed, flower-dipped

Beneath our feet a wonder-world

Is unfurled; viral, teeming sod

Is meadow-crowned and dew-drop pearled

Twig, petal, sprig and leaf applaud

Then pray for eyes that truly see

And ears that hear more than mere sounds

For mouths to sing the Majesty

Of He where-from all joy abounds

…and pray that we do not become

Numb to the place where posies nod

Lest, distracted by sorrow’s sum  

We forget to be awed by God

  

© Janet Martin

Well, it's off to the garden where the beaming beet-row is begging to be thinned out a bit;-)

Renascence of Spirit

Wishing you a wonder-full day!

You have enclosed me behind and before,
            And laid Your hand upon me.

      Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
            It is too high, I cannot attain to it.

 Ps.139:5-6

Its archive harbors hunger

That wends its age-old way

From night to day where Wonder

Is never held at bay

The one who seeks will find it

It kindles star-straked Yon

With eons sealed behind it

It breaks dark bars with dawn

And spills its mercy-shower

Across the mist-kissed lea

And fills the bud with flower

And pilots Poetry

No one too poor to wear it

The wealth that Wonder brings

A renaissance of spirit

It gladdens common kings

And wakens in worn Being

With Hope and nothing more

A whole new way of seeing

What we have seen before

© Janet Martin

 Last evening's Update from Dave's wife Karen; 

(To new-comers; I'm keeping readers updated on a journey that began here)

Hello everyone,

When I arrived at the hospital Dave said he already walked the halls this morning. A little later the physiotherapist came in again, took him for another walk and then got him to sit in his chair to have lunch. After lunch he got back into bed. Soon his parents came down for a visit. Wasn't long after his parent came he was just so tired that he had a rest while we visited for bit and then I went to the family room to put my feet up while mom and dad stayed with him until he woke up and they came and got me.

Later in the evening Josh and Krista came to pick me up. 

Another good day and his pain is under control so that really helps.

Thank-you SO much for your continued prayers!

Awareness of Greatness

Awareness of Greatness far-more than mere words can descry

Surges within this cage of skin where Want and Worship vie

Our understanding babbles; vexed by what thought cannot grip

Yet one glimpse is enough to concede a Supreme Lordship

The wheel of nature’s season-reel drips, we behold with awe

What mankind cannot fluster nor usurp; a higher law

Mutes mustered explanation, save for One; as we applaud

With sacred salutation the awareness of Him; God

Time’s melody of moments spills a gossamer incline

Where we are prone to distraction as on and up we climb

Still, who but fools dares to ignore the Hand that bore, for Grace

The agony of nails pierced through, yet holds the stars in space?

Oh, God forbid we put a lid on Awareness of He

Who stokes the depths of darkness where the Light of day breaks free

And even though the tongue may boast and scorn, somewhere within

Awareness of Greatness persists; a Conqueror of sin

For who can heal body and soul, or appeal life from sod?

And who can save from Hades grave, But One; the Lord our God?

Tell me then, who among us can His magnitude perceive?

Awareness of Greatness persuades the wise man to believe

© Janet Martin

"See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.
 Deut.32:39

"We are living in the last days" announced Matt at the supper table, "but who knows how long the 'last days' will be?"

What happened? I ask, and he explains how some of his teachers (and then, many students) scoff at the idea that anyone would still believe in a God who created heaven and earth!

Why, I wondered, do they apply themselves so vehemently to disprove Something they claim does not exist?!Could it be A Greater Awareness?

Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 2 Pet.3:3

Deuteronomy 32:39-43

³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

⁴⁰ For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
⁴¹ If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
⁴² I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
⁴³ Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.