Showing posts with label trickle effect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trickle effect. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Some 'Sure-ances/Assurances For Today


The Way, the Truth, and the Life

John 14:1-6
1Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
2In My Father’s house are many [a]mansions; 
if it were not so, [b]I would have told you. 
I go to prepare a place for you. 
3And if I go and prepare a place for you,
 *I will come again and receive you to Myself; 
that where I am, there you may be also. 
4And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
5Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going,
 and how can we know the way?”
6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. 
No one comes to the Father except through Me.
***

Surely as night turns to morning and as sunshine follows rain..

Quite the deluge pouring from nature's tap today!
So many a-magical rain-drop marvel on display!









Sure as effect follows action heedless of rank or stature
Sure as truth meets confrontation with unflinching caliber
Sure as deed is like seed planted, sure as pride precedes downfall
Sure as every day is granted with a divine beck and call
Sure as summer is enchanted by enticements, autumnal

Sure as moments mete fleet measure that no miser's vault contains 
Sure as we prove what we treasure by what Thought most entertains
Sure as season follows season, sure as present turns to past
Sure as wisdom refines reason, sure as stumbles humble fast 
Sure as hello's sweet reunions, sure as farewell culls its cast  

Sure as the face in the mirror starts to wear Time’s telling strife
Sure as each breath draws us nearer to the finish-line of life
Sure as despair is a canker causing the spirit to groan
Sure as we are prone to hanker after what is not our own
Sure as hope IS a sure anchor in Messiah’s Cornerstone

Surely God’s goodness and mercy graces all that dawns and dims
Surely His kind purpose frustrates futile chase of wishful whims
Surely as night turns to morning and as sunshine follows rain
Surely as He hears hate's scorning, He hears faith's prayer, not in vain
Surely He comforts with warning; surely, *I will come again

© Janet Martin

Psalm 23:6
Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life,
 and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.




Monday, January 18, 2021

Trickle Effect or Tsunami

 

Oh, the sacred runnel 
that runs through channels
 where its trickle effect
sets the course of  lives 
that are not even born yet!

The trickle is fed by a source
It courses from, into
a force far greater than the crater
that it first ran through... 

  Somewhere the thundering power of Niagara Falls 



It seems invisible at first; The progeny Thought breeds 
In an arena that hosts entertainment and neglect 
But Evidence is soon unveiled in the bold font of deeds 
A virile force that sets the course of thought’s trickle effect 

The guests we host, of good or ill soon spill seeds of its kind 
Where what we do and say begins in thought’s ivory cell 
With how we satisfy the howling hunger of the mind 
And prove who we love best by what quest and interest tell 

Thought is a battlefield; the wars twixt enemy and Friend 
(Though we brandish no weapons to expose its crucial spree) 
Are fought where we are prone to forget aftermaths that wend 
In striking trickle effects of pride or humility 

Thought is the control-tower of the body that displays 
The Trickle Effect of Influence; what a sacred spring 
That feeds the Fount that bleeds into the voice that choice obeys 
And makes what seemed invisible the Most Apparent Thing 

The Trickle Effect may seem unassuming at first glance 
A gathering tsunami veiled in Equilibrium 
That cannot long contain the force that roars with allegiance 
To stay or change the course of generations yet to come 

© Janet Martin

...and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, 
whatever is noble, whatever is right, 
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, 
whatever is admirable--
if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--
think about such things.