Showing posts with label resolutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resolutions. Show all posts

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Benediction and Resolution


I went on a hymn-hunt after the message today
after the man who brought the message shared the lyrics.
Thank-you Richard!
 (also for the last line in this poem)

This benediction to the Old Year is more like a resolve for the New,

To grasp with renewed wonder 
To timeless truths of old 
And satisfy heart-hunger 
With what hands cannot hold 

To sense the thread of moments 
Unravel as they weave 
A sacred recrudescence 
Deigned by Who we believe 

To cling with firm conviction 
To He who does not shift 
And anchor each ambition 
In hope’s unashamed gift 

To not become too weary 
To do the good I/we ought 
But press toward the vic’try 
In a good fight well-fought 

To guard against the anguish 
Of disillusionment 
And not let love’s cause languish 
In selfish discontent 

To trust the Rock of Ages 
Amidst the raging gale 
And hold on to the Pages 
That Last Gasp will unveil 

To pay closer attention 
(lest God forbid, it slips) 
To the gift of redemption 
And Soul-dier it equips 

To not let vain emotion 
Control life’s little lease 
But make love's sole devotion 
Salvation’s Centerpiece 

© Janet Martin 


Joshua 23:11,12
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, 
that ye love the LORD your God…






Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Some Worth-(our)-While Resolutions...


 The photo collage below is from a summer front-porch sit at my sister's house!
(see first line of poem below:)
The view was second to none! and the company/fellowship was pretty nice too!
Here's to keeping some simpler, sweeter resolutions in 2020!
 
Happy Last Day of 2019!


 Here's to some totally within reach transformations that might not be quite as quickly visible
as those that took place overnight!



This year, let’s sit upon a porch though this seems like a thing of yore
(Because most of us seem too hurried just to linger anymore)
Just to rave at waves of colour weaving oceans through the sky
Or to marvel at the measure of a moment flitting by

Let’s close our eyes and wander back to simpler, ampler days and years
Or ponder present pleasantries before its pleasure disappears
Let’s pray more for our friends and neighbours, family both far and near
Or rock and talk about the weather or a hymn that we hold dear

Let’s try to pause without a worry about where we ought to be
Let’s learn to linger over pages filled with nature’s poetry
Let’s be awed, struck with wordless wonder as the sun sets in the west
And put down handheld distractions (lest we deem God’s art second best)

Let’s make a firm four-season promise to spend more time far less stressed
For the author of earth’s beauty offers endless ways to be impressed
The flower of an hour soon lies lifeless where spent ages drift
Let’s not let it slip through our fingers without regard for its gift

Let’s make a resolution to be more at ease with fellowman
And strive to please the Giver of all that He grants, the best we can
And let’s with kind, earnest endeavor bind love’s wounds with mercy’s kiss
To heal the heart and bridge the gap twixt what once was with what yet is

Let’s remember that we never know what a day, (nay, an hour) may cast
Let’s make real the cliché to live each day as if it were our last
Let’s picture this world as the foothills in full view of heaven’s gates
Then this will help us keep the focus when we would forget what waits

Let’s be more careful with the air full of echoes that soon will teach
Let’s be aware of the awesome blessing of loved ones still within reach
Let’s treat each other as if we never know if we will meet once more
Let’s make life worth the living by giving without once keeping score

Let’s sip our seasons slowly, wholly humbled by hope’s holy ground
Lest we miss out on what is right before us waiting to be found
Let’s turn the other cheek; not waste our precious whiles seeking revenge
Let’s fill our thoughts with thankfulness that spills out in ten thousand glad amens

© Janet Martin

...on this note I'm off to linger over pages filled with nature's fresh snowfall poetry!