Showing posts with label second miles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label second miles. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

What A Love/Life!

 

 

 

 

Love God, love others; it ain't rocket science. 
Wise words from my friend Patrick! #TOOLS
this from my nephew
(Works at CMF Youth Worker)  this morning!

Yes. amen, but Oh! what a love.
(Part of what made me smile when I read this is because this verse...
  Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
John 13:34 
...was impressed on my heart before my feet touched down to begin another day of
...oh, what a LOVE!)


Those hard-fought smiles and second miles
And turn the other cheek
The ‘bite your tongue’ lest words are flung
We wish we could un-speak

Those longer prayers for wrongs and cares
Which make us stronger when
We look to He from bended knee
To lift us up again

Those secret tears and sacred fears
For souls still lost, Without
Where grace is free until we see
He who removes all doubt

The give-and-give each day we live
Without counting the price
This altar of Authentic/agape Love
A ceaseless sacrifice

This Hope we seek for flesh is weak
We often make mistakes
But Jesus cares; Love hears our prayers
And heals the heart that breaks

Those promises that cheer and bless
While on and up we trod
They keep our eyes fixed on Love's prize
Held in the hands of God

© Janet Martin

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Calignosity

PAD Challenge 25: For today’s prompt, pick an intriguing and/or seldom-used word, make it the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. If you have a limited vocabulary, try out brabble, dandle, feracious, impavid, lippitude, or vulgus. Or pick up a dictionary or thesaurus.

Judy shared this quote in her post the other day;
 “Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle” (Ian MacLaren)

 We have to climb the mountain...
 Before we can enjoy the view!

 Some people wear their crown of thorns, not on their heads but on their hearts... 


 One thing we ALL have access to is The Grace that leads us Home!


 We can be so wrong about people and what we think their life is like;
the things they do not wear on their sleeves might deceive us into thinking 
where we have Uphill Second Miles they have Easy Street! 
...until they perhaps confide a hidden hurt and we realize;
We are all fighting a hard battle! Be kind.


The Calignosity of Sight does not unveil The Fight~

What They do not wear on their sleeves may deceive
Our eyes with a sly sleight of guesses
And we might be prone to think we’re all alone
In our short-change of happinesses

We start to believe by the puff of their sleeve
That the ‘stuff’ love is born to suffer
Has heaped to our care more than mercy’s fair share
Of second-mile ‘love one another’

We might think the ink that shapes their legacy
Smiles wide as it spills finest fortune
While our own amount of blessings we count
Is doled out in more meager portion

What we do not know by what They choose to show
Might kindle a woe-is-me fire
When, in reality Their battle might be
Anything but what we would desire

© Janet Martin

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Entrustments or Of Schlipping and Schlepping





New morning hosts hope’s plan-to-do
It stirs to life toil’s strife-and-song
And draws cause-and-effect along
Upon a tide of tried-and-true

Through corridors of more-or-less
Time’s rise-and-shine, come-get-me-stare
Hails beg-and-borrow’s grin-and bear
To sorrow’s care and happiness

Night’s crepuscule of raven tulle
Is pulled aside while pride-and-joy
Dawn’s for-better-or-worse employs
With cup-half-empty-or-half-full

To-be-or-not-to-be, a sea
Of rose and gold lo-and-behold
Where here-and-now is soon cajoled
From what-will-be to history

This nutshell of hello-farewell
Compels both brave and faint-of-heart
Toward the grave; left-right-foot march
While day-of-grace tolls heaven’s bell

…with grants of new-chance; Mercy’s rod
Through schlep of step-by-step's may-must
Teaches this skiff of dust-to-dust
To entrust each what-if to God

© Janet Martin

Thank-you to the 7:00 a.m. second-miler who picked up the recyling blown from the bins
 by fast-moving gotta-get-to-work traffic...



Let's all put on second-mile shoes today! Why?...
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matt.25:40

Monday, July 2, 2012

Where True Love Shines...a re-post



I wrote this approx. a year ago and I want to re-post it as a thanks to all of those traveling 'second miles'.

I’ve heard love declared in words
And garnished with a smile
But I have seen it walk its talk
Within a second mile

True love needs no ruse or guise
It needs no pomp or style
And it will always prove itself
Within the second mile

Love is not a fancy hat
That we may don awhile
Nor does it wait until its asked
To walk the second mile

There is no facade in love
No pretense in its smile
And I have felt its purest touch
Within its second mile

Janet~

Saturday, June 16, 2012

On Second Miles






Second miles may cause us to groan
For they tug us from our comfort zone

It is in the second miles we trod
That we touch the hand of God

Second miles are not traveled by obligation, force or fear
But they are the miles that prove
Our testimony, loud and clear
Of love

Love is patient, love is kind
It does not seek its own
And oft its dark and second mile
Is seen by God alone

Second miles in life
Do not further our own causes
But if, in faith we walk them
Their beauty may surprise us

Second miles are not reserved
For either the gifted or the common
But they draw out of mortal crowds
The very best of them

Lift up your chin, take heart and smile
Love begins in the second mile
Walk with the one who needs a hand
Alone we fall, together we stand

Jesus, how thankful I am
You walked that mile for me
And oh, its blood-stains led me to
A place called Calvary

If we would follow Him
In authenticity
Then we will walk those second miles
For His sake, willingly

What blessing we forfeit
What joy we discard
If second miles we forsake
Because they are too hard

Take heart, oh traveler of the second mile
It will all be over in life’s little while
Then oh, how sweet our rest will be
At Jesus feet for eternity

© Janet Martin

 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.  If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.  Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
Matt. 5:38-42