But If They Could...

Sometimes we pray for miracles God does not seem to bring

We pray for health and healing for a loved one’s suffering

But in the end God deems it fit to take them from this life

While we are left to mourn the loss of child, husband or wife

…and wonder at God’s perfect way and will we’ll never know

Where “why, God, why”, wafts to the sky as loved ones miss them so

But if they could I’m sure they would from yonder portal call

And tell us Heaven is the greatest miracle of all

© Janet Martin

On Saturday at the wedding, in lieu of traditional wedding favors Jamie and Becca left this;
for so many would-have-been guests, dearly missed...

 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! 

How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! 

For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, 

OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR? 

Rom.11:33-34 

 Search me, God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.  

See if there is any offensive way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting.

 Ps.139:23-24

Rare Thread

  

1Thus says the LORD, "Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. 

 Where then is a house you could build for Me?

 And where is a place that I may rest? 

"For My hand made all these things, 

Thus all these things came into being," declares the LORD. 

"But to this one I will look, 

To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, 

and who trembles at My word.…

Isa.66:1-2 

Mankind is held, beheld, beloved

By One we cannot see

Save in the thousand-thousand ways

He grants glimpses for free

Beneath, above and all around

There’s no denying this

No matter where on earth we look

The God of Heaven IS

We, on God’s footstool, must admit

Nobody can detail

The oracle of instinct, save

By He who does not fail

The thread of Miracle is love

Before the world began

The Master of Time's essence wove

A most mirac'lous plan

Should it not make us tremble then

His miracles enthrall

We, held, beheld and beloved by

The Weaver of it all

© Janet Martin

 PAD Challenge day 19: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “(blank) Thread;” replace the blank with a word or phrase; make the new phrase the title of your poem; and then, write your poem.

Count your Miracles Today

“He is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction, to the comfort of your table laden with choice food.  

Job 36:16

Count your miracles today

Feel them when you bow to pray

How a word whispered to God

Transports sky and sea and sod

To the very ear of He

Who is Immortality

Count your miracles, oh my

See how morning meets the eye

Melts the dark with crimson-gold

Arc of time caught in its hold

Where the feet of man and beast

Leap, lag, dance, north-south, west-east

Count your miracles, my love

Time is such a sacred trove

Hellos-farewells interlace

Overflowing with God’s grace

Happiness, heartache, death-birth

Keens the fathoms of the earth

Arms for hugging, lips for kiss 

Hands to hold and hearts to miss

Dreams to reach and dust to tread,

God beneath and overhead

Bids us sally forth and brave

This which leads us through the grave

Count your miracles, inhale

Every breath, a Holy Grail

Count your miracles, my dear

What we see-smell-taste-touch-hear

Oh, what wonders we will tell

Every day a miracle

© Janet Martin

Stumped when it comes to looking for your own miracles? 

Walt Whitman offers a few suggestions today at YDP.

Wonder-full Miracle

 The little guy I babysit keeps my heart and days full of laughter. 

He didn't even seem to notice his audience until he heard the camera clicking:)

The heart is like a miracle

Its hub, an open door

For when we think it should be full

There’s room for ‘just one more’

…and there is always room enough

For each new name and face

It is a miracle called love

The heart, its nesting place

© Janet Martin

Check out Dayle's oh-so-adorable heart-full here

(the inspiration for this poem:)

Have You seen This?! Miracle Happening!

(Doesn't that look like a heart in the sky:)

 HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?!

(click link)

When the love the Lord imparts

Moves to hands and feet from hearts

Miracles happen

When the prayers we pray are wept

Poured in humble, pure request

Miracles happen

© Janet Martin

 Caring isn’t a Christian’s sideline hobby. Caring is a Christian’s complete career. Ann V.

Whether you prayed, gave, are praying and giving...thank-you for being part of the miracle!

In as much as you are doing it to the least of these you are doing it to me. Jesus