This Caught-in-the-Middle...

Time just keeps marching right on, doesn't it?

Christmas comes...and goes.

Do you ever get that caught-in-the-middle-of-it-all feeling? 

The bottom corner is my 'cheers' with a Christmas-morning coffee on the deck in the sun!!!

In these parts that is most unusual!

This network of moments

Like still-life applause

Soft-binds in its passing

What is to what was

These brushstrokes of Being

Do not disconnect

But blends us to paintings

Echoes resurrect

This caught-in-the-middle

Of will be and was

Reminds us to cherish

Each breath-space because

…this tick-by-tock measure

Which moments beget

Are tints in a picture

Not finished yet

© Janet Martin

A Little Morning Prayer~

With humble servant heart

Lord, our faith renew

And help us seek Your will for us

In everything we do

In everything we do

With humble servant heart

Lord, our infant faith renew

As we do our part

Then, as we do our part

 As You our faith renew

With humble servant heart, oh Lord

Help us to honor You

In everything we do

Through strength that You impart

Lord, day by day our faith renew

With humble servant heart

© Janet Martin

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
Eccles.9:10

The Son of God Has Come...A Hallelujah Song

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."
 Luke 19:10

 

The Son of God has come

To seek and save the lost

To be for sin a sacrifice

And pay its awful cost

The Son of God has come

Redemption pours its flood

From perfect God to hearts of men

Salvation, through His blood

The Son of God has come

 The dark of death collides

With Light and death is done away

Love’s Living Hope abides

The Son of God has come

Oh, do not turn away

From He who has prepared a home

After the Judgement Day

The Son of God has come

Fear’s hellish tears abate

For greater is His love within

Than Satan's screaming hate

The Son of God has come

Then let our worship be

To He whose grace in us becomes

The love that sets us free

© Janet Martin

Wishing you a worshipful day.

Emmanuel!

From Our House To Yours...Happy Boxing Day

Rob, Emily's husband took the above photo then we took one of our 'kids' below

Matt, Rob, Emily, Melissa, Victoria.

From our house to yours, Happy Day-after-Christmas Day:)

We do not know time's come-what-may
Or what tomorrow's quest will be
Lord, teach us then to live each day
In love's tender humility

We do not know the 'if' and 'when'
Save that which God has said is so,
Lord, teach us to remember then
It is but by your grace we go



...wishing you God's richest blessing in 2016

Janet and Family

A Reason for Joy Year-round

Joy does not disappear like a season or gifts we give

True Joy is an every-day-all-year Reason to live 

My, my, how silverly the wrapping fell off the gift of this new day....

Frost-brushed, a hushed world rouses from beneath a star-frothed quill

Where God splays on spent ages virgin pages of His will

Holy goodness and mercy in patient Perfection pleads

With broken pieces fashioned by the cry of mankind’s needs

The depth of our dependence does not exceed heaven’s reach

This breadth of Being borrows where sorrow and joy beseech

As rawness of Time’s tumult exults in constant demise

Yet hope unveils its legions in dawn’s silver-gilded prize

The Way that leads to Life or Death is laid beneath our feet

Survival’s breath-by-breath accomplishment is bittersweet

Where our uttermost meek boast ought to be only thus;

The love of God who through his Son grants Living Hope; Jesus

Frost-brushed, a hushed world rises from the ashes of the Past

Time’s quill touches the pages where soon man’s scribbles are cast

And would be unintelligible but for God-gifted grace

Where Glory left all Glory to bring hope to human race

© Janet Martin

This Salvation

A manger-bed, a Stranger that His dearly-loved denied

Nowhere to lay his head, upon a cross He bled and died

To save once and for all, mankind, by Heaven’s King of kings

Thus we rejoice because of hope that this salvation brings