Of Yielded Yes'm (except when it comes to skunks!!)

It's The Week-end Canadians celebrate Thanks-living!
  I wrote this before walking outside...
 I am struggling with Thanks-living right now...
(in one area of life)
In fact, I'm quite livid!.
We have a skunk destroying our lawn as he digs for grubs!!!
Last night he went berserk or invited all his buddies for a grub-fest😡

on that note, here's the poem I wrote before I got so cross😏

When we have yielded all we have

And hope for, as we pray

Then we will gain God's peace to brave

Whatever comes our way

For when we humbly recognize

He grants all we hold dear

Then Unknown cannot paralyze

Time’s passengers with fear

When we with sincere gratitude

Revere the Hand that lends

Then love will shape our attitude

No matter what life sends

© Janet Martin

Leader, Guide, Director

The beautiful truth of God's love is, it is perfect even when life hurts! 

I wrote this poem with tears in my eyes, a lump in my throat and hope in my heart 

because God/love never fails!

Our Sunday morning message included these promises...

 The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still."

(with easy-to-remember-reference) Exodus 14:14

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, 

who^[ have been called according to his purpose.

Rom.8:28

Mist morning-tide seeps through hushed deeps across flushed meadowlands

It kisses slumb’ring worlds from sleep and rouses time’s demands

Where oft the ways of right and wrong collide and intersect

And oft we need to pray to God to lead, guide and direct

To lead us from temptation else we would be drawn astray

To guide through tribulation when we cannot see the way

To direct our path when mercy feels misunderstood

And trust His word, pure, undeterred ‘He works for our good’

He orchestrates, beyond mankind’s perception, Perfect Plan

His thoughts and ways are higher than the thoughts and ways of man

So Lord, forgive us when we doubt; our errant want correct

And teach us how to trust You as You lead, guide and direct

 

© Janet Martin

He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. Ps.23:3

Guide me in your truth and teach me, 

for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

Ps.25:5

In all your ways acknowledge Him, 

And He shall direct your paths. Prov:3:6

 

The Good Life

I get it so mixed up sometimes. I think life is good when it caters to my personal comfort

rather than when I commit/submit to God’s call, all for His glory…

…Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ  and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—  that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 

Phil. 3:8-11

Life is good

Not because the wood-box is filled

and the sky or the oven spills works of art

Life is good

when I bow my want and will

To the One who sees the heart

Life is good

Not because an orchestra plays

And life is a light-footed waltz

Life is good

When I surrender pride’s chase

To worship the One that nature exalts

© Janet Martin